by Laurie Singer

You've been through it. We all have. There are days when you're just not yourself. Something is causing your brain to do somersaults. You're distracted and you can't quite put your finger on why.

It got to the point yesterday where I ran out of the house and into a movie theater to get lost in someone else's story.

The escape worked for a while, and then I looked at the calendar. It was three years ago that Leroy and I were in a hospital emergency room listening to a doctor tells us a brain scan had found a mass. Further tests showed lung tumors. Colon cancer mets. Prognosis: six months. This was the beginning of life in cancer world.

When Leroy started this blog, he said, "It's scary, it's sad, but it's still a life and a life worth living."

He made it worth living for me, too. And he made it worth living for this community. What wisdom and guidance we all got from his words.

I only wish it was Leroy writing today. He had so much more to say.