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My Cancer

Where Do You Get Your Strength?

"Where do you get your strength?"

Some one asked me that today and it stopped me in my tracks.

I guess I don't look at this grieving thing that way. Facing each day since Aug. 15th has presented new challenges. I've tried to adjust to my brave new world the best way I know how. I've bumped into walls and stumbled because I'm off my game. Life with out Leroy is empty. I miss his guidance, his presence, his laugh. I miss my pal. I find I remember the healthy Leroy more than the Leroy with cancer. I like that I can do that.

But when I think about strength, I don't think about me. I think of a man who had the guts to stare down a killer he knew would eventually take his life. But, yet, life was still worth living to it's fullest. And he did that until he just couldn't any more.

Where did that strength come from? Where does your strength come from? All of you, who face each day in cancer's shadow, where do you find the strength to stay in the game?

-- Laurie

7:01 AM ET | 11- 7-2008 | 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.