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My Cancer

Ready For A New Year

Let's face it. It's been a hard year. 2008 will go down in my journal as a flop. Too much pain.

Leroy suffered and courageously stood up to cancer, until the beast was just too much for him.

To be honest, I can't wait for this year to be over. The ball in Times Square can't fall fast enough. And now I find out, it won't. I mean, it will, but it will take longer than usual this New Year's Eve.

Because this is the year of the Leap Second. On December 31st, a "leap second" will be added to the world's clocks at 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds Greenwich Mean Time. For those of you wondering, that will be at 6:59:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. This is the 24th time since 1972 that the world's clocks have added a leap second.

My luck it would happen this year.

7:11 AM ET | 12-10-2008 | 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.