Monthly Archives: December 2009

Merry Christmas. You have cancer.

Me and Beth at Mayo (I’ll let you guess which one) on December 23rd. We had just been told I have stage 3 esophageal cancer. Odds of survival are about 30%.

This was an email I sent to friends and family on December 14, 2009.

Some of the fifty or so people getting this email know parts of the story, and some of you haven’t heard any of it. I’ve been debating on how best to let people know, and it seems email is the most efficient. I wanted to get everyone that Beth and I care about up to speed on what is happening.

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