April 2010
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Memory is a funny thing
As I go over old emails, chat logs and my sister’s daily updates from early in my fight against cancer, it’s strange to me how many times my memory doesn’t match up with the actual events.
Sure, there are the occasional things that I’ve forgotten over time…how many times they had to stick me to give me the IV contrast for my first CAT scan, the fact that I was...
Turbulence ahead
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Excepts from The Updates
Thought I’d share another excerpt from my sister’s updates when I was in the hospital. This one is from May 5, 2008, and refers to the doctors talking about my case:
“It’s definitely been interesting (and a little scary) to hear the doctors talking about how Jeff is writing the book on this case. I sometimes wondered through all this why things would change so suddenly,...
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Excerpts from "The Updates"
As I’m writing the book about my twenty-two hour surgery and the resulting stay in the ICU and chemo ward, I thought I’d share some excerpts from the updates that my sister sent out every day to our friends and family. This one, from very early on, describes the first time I was able to communicate with my family after the surgery.
As he lay there today, trying so hard to communicate...