Age: 56
Family: Adult married daughter & adult son living out of state
Type of illness: Indolent BCell Lymphocytic Lymphoma, stage 4
Diagnosed: December 2002

February, 2004
Having now been involved with Team In Training for two years, I will say that my life prior to my diagnosis seems like a million years ago. A brief recap of me before 2000(when I started feeling sick) or 2002 (when I got my diagnosis) is: I was born in a small town in Northern California… and I came to the Bay Area for the first time in1968 for college. I was married to a Palo Alto girl in Sunnyvale, lived with my family for 25 years in various places throughout the West Coast before we divorced. I have raised two wonderful children, worked for a couple of major international corporations, was successful in many things that I did, grew older and looked forward to coming of an age to retire and relax. By 1998, I was living in the Santa Cruz area with my adult son. I had a home near the Capitola beach, and was starting to gray in the temples. Rock ‘n’ roll was still a part of my life, communicating professionally about quality processes, initiatives, and purposes my career, and looking forward to “what’s next” was my outlook.

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