Category Archives: cancer

National Cancer Survivors Day 2021

By Steve | Published: June 7, 2021
It’s been a long time since I’ve posted here. It’s not because I haven’t been active on social media. I’ve been very active on Facebook and Instagram but I’ve done a poor job of posting updates here as well. I vow to be better!! …. A few last words on this year’s National Cancer Survivors [...]
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National Cancer Survivors Day 2021 is Coming!

By Steve | Published: June 1, 2021
National Cancer Survivors Day is almost upon us. And I for one plan to make it much more than a single day celebration. So buckle up. Today I look back on the book that I wrote 6 years ago. This was the fifth book I had written and I felt that it was [...]
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Man & Woman of the Year Video

By Steve | Published: May 30, 2021
Click the link to see the video interview I did with Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Man of the Year candidate Derek Fitzgerald.
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The Long Run

By Steve | Published: November 17, 2020
My daughter Jennifer wrote this piece for a non-fiction & memoirs creative writing assignment. While I’ve lived every step of this journey in real time and in the first person, hearing a loved ones interpretation of these same events proved very moving for me. Hopefully you’ll appreciate it as well. Happily, the period of unemployment [...]
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Living with CLL – WebMD

By Steve | Published: November 17, 2020
WebMD published a “Living With CLL” patient guide and asked me to contribute to the effort. Follow the link for the complete guide but my page is below.
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“Siriusly Fearless”

By Steve | Published: September 24, 2020
Tune in this Sunday, September 27th at 2:30 EST for “Siriusly Fearless”, a unique event focusing on stories of inspiration, survival, and courage. Featuring @siri.lindley.3 and @RebekahKeat, Siriusly Fearless will share insights from people who’ve faced the trials of cancer, and gone on to make an impact on the world around them. Including yours truly! Siriusly [...]
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Living with CLL

By Steve | Published: December 10, 2019
I recently did an interview for Health Monitor and shared a few tips on living with a chronic and incurable cancer like chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Hopefully you enjoy reading it!
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Thanks Peloton & Megan

By Steve | Published: November 1, 2019
A friend of our daughters submitted our story to Peloton for their Comeback promotion and as good fortune would have it, we won a Peloton bike with all the trimmings!! How very generous of Peloton and how very thoughtful of the friend who was so moved by our story that she took the time to [...]
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On Surviving

By Steve | Published: October 22, 2019
When it’s chronic and incurable you don’t ever get to let your guard down and say “I survived that”. It’s never completely behind you and you live in the active state of survivorship each and every day. You have great days, you have good days, you have less than good days. Your shield is constantly [...]
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I’m on TOP

By Steve | Published: March 18, 2019
Last week I had a follow up with my oncolodoc. My blood work continues to behave and is responding exactly as hoped now being on the targeted therapy drug Ibrutinib for 5 months to treat my chronic lymphocytic leukemia. The road to “normalcy” continues but for all intents and purposes I FEEL no evidence of [...]
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