Information On Lung Cancer
Thanks and Good-Bye, Leroy Sievers
Posted: 14 Aug 2008 07:00 AM CDT: He is the dog we never had. He's a Burnese Mountain dog. A big one. We always knew what his name was going to be..."Spanky"...no matter what. The fact that he would be a toy didn't really bother us. We couldn't have a real one because we both traveled too much. So here he is, sitting with me on the bed. My comrade in cancer. A boy and his dog. -- Leroy Sievers
This is the final post Leroy Sievers made to his "My Cancer" blog on the NPR Web site. It went up last T...
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