Article from a Cancer Caregiver

Amy sent me this article. It was written by the wife of a man who is a testicular cancer survivor. It has good insight into what our caregivers have to go through. I cannot imagine what Amy has undergone through my treatments. It makes me want to cry.

I cannot give her enough credit and praise for what her support has meant to me. She has been with me for every chemo treatment, every surgery, every moment when I was down .

She is an angel sent to help me through the toughest fights of my life.

Book Signing

On Thursday, April 21, 2005, Linda Armstrong Kelly, Lance Armstrong's
mother, will be at Barnes & Noble at 41st & Yale signing copies of her book,
NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH.

Armstrong Gives Us Hope Against Dope

Tony Kornheiser wrote a really good article about Lance in today's Washington Post.

My favorite excerpt from the article:

" It would be gratifying if McGwire and Bonds and Jones were clean because we want their records to be honest. But it's almost like we need Armstrong to be clean. Hardly any of us can hit 500-foot home runs, or run 100 meters in under 10 seconds, or punt a football 70 yards in the air. But all of us can get cancer. You want to believe you can beat it. You look at this little guy pedaling uphill in the rain, and you tell yourself that if Lance can beat cancer, you can, too.

That's the compact we have with Lance Armstrong that we don't have with Mark McGwire, Barry Bonds or Jose Canseco. Those guys are massive and superhuman. What could we possibly have in common with them? We're invested psychologically in Lance Armstrong in ways we can never be invested in them. They're about power. He's about hope. He gives us hope against our darkest fear, the fear of death. That's why so many of us hope Lance Armstrong doesn't cheat, even as we fully expect the others to. "

Interesting Article on cancer research

Apparently some Korean researchers have isolated a gene "MKRN1" that causes cancer cells to die! This is exciting news. You can read the article by clicking here.

Peter Jennings has been diagnosed with cancer

He was a long time smoker, but quit years ago. Unfortunately it wasn't soon enough to prevent lung cancer. He is planning on performing his job throughout his chemotherapy. While it is never good news when someone has been diagnosed with cancer, hopefully this will bring more awareness to the realities of cancer and the risks involved in smoking cigarettes.

I've told many friends and family members who smoke that they should visit a chemotherapy floor at local hospital and speak with someone who has lung cancer. I would hope that such an experience would cause a paradigm shift.

Livestrong -- Andrew