Joys on the Journey
— This is the presentation I gave at tonight's Celebrate Today dinner, Memorial Hospital's quarterly celebration for cancer survivors — Four years ago, I was at this dinner for the first time with my sister. It was Volunteer Appreciation Night, and my sister, Clara Fromme, volunteers at the cancer center and I was her guest. In April of the following year, 2015, I was here again, this time as a newly diagnosed cancer patient. Between my first time here and the next, Clara had