Or use the links below. Send us your Feedback For our privacy policy, click here . For our user agree- ment, click here . My life changed that day in ways that no legislator, health-division bureaucrat, doctor, lawyer, cop, friend, lover or acquaintance can begin to understand. Everything I do, every decision I make, every song I sing to my young daughters, every moment of every day is now filtered through the haze of this life-threatening disease.
Death is no longer abstract, and neither is life.
I have survived major brain surgery. I have endured 32 treatments of radiation. I have struggled through six months of chemotherapy. No thank you.