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My Cancer

What Do We Call This?

We have an assignment.

We, and I mean all of us who are struggling with loss, need to come up with a name for it.

We're here because of cancer. We all know the symptoms. We're not sure when or why the tears come, but they do, and we cry. A lot. When we least expect it, there's this feeling in our gut ... like a knot tightening. Visit an old familiar spot, and the beads of sweat roll off the forehead. Read an email, or a caring letter from an old friend, and the emptiness is overwhelming.

Our internal compass is broken and no longer shows us the way. Cancer's last hurrah.

So what do we call this?

-- Laurie

9:55 AM ET | 10-13-2008 | permalink

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Leroy Sievers in the Ted Koppel Documentary

Leroy Sievers speaks with Dr. Christos Georgiades. Credit: Tyrone Turner

A Ted Koppel documentary focuses on his friend Leroy Sievers' "My Cancer" blog and the response it evokes.

About 'My Cancer'

A journalist for more than 25 years, Leroy Sievers worked at CBS News, the Discovery Channel, and ABC News, where he was the executive producer of Nightline. He wrote this blog daily until his death in August.