Bob Collins
These are the kind of words that, once you read them, you never forget.
‘What keeps me going is remembering why I’m here.’
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: Cancer
There’s more to define Jenna Vancura’s life than her battle with cancer. But her illness has consumed a lot of it. The 27-year-old New Ulm native spent much of her senior year in high school at the Mayo Clinic. Read more →
Don Meyer, the long-time men’s basketball coach at Northern State University in Aberdeen, has died, the Associated Press reports today. He had also once been coach at Hamline.
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When Stephen Sutton of the UK learned he had bowel cancer at 15, and learned he was terminal at 17, he used his Facebook page to chronicle all the things he wanted to do before he dies. He wanted to skydive. He did. He wanted to play drums in a band at Wembley Stadium. He did. He wanted to crowd surf. He did. He also wanted to raise more than $1.6 million for cancer research and he was far short of his goal when he posted his goodbye on Facebook this week. Read more →
Hundreds of runners in last year’s Boston Marathon are planning to go back to Boston in a few weeks to finish what they started. Their efforts were interrupted, of course, by last year’s finish-line bombing. Read more →
A new study from a Boston cancer center is shedding new light on one of life’s most difficult decisions: Whether and/or when it makes sense for us to fight it. Read more →
A Memphis TV broadcaster says it’s time to show viewers what she really looks like. Read more →
Lynn Acker, 37, of Coon Rapids, has left Mayo Clinic, where she’s been treated for cancer, and she’s not going back because she wants to spend her remaining days with her three hockey-playing kids. Read more →
A reminder that when it comes to cancer, insurance companies still call the shots. Read more →
The old stove loses a pal, should marijuana be legalized in Minnesota, how Minnesota researchers starved people to learn about starvation, the sports-related discussion we really should be having, and the gift of sight for an elderly woman. Read more →
If a woman with Stage IV breast cancer wants to blog and tweet about her illness and experience, who is anybody else to criticize her? Read more →
Baseball is using the World Series to highlight some great causes. Read more →
What New Jersey gets that Minnesota doesn’t, to be single with cancer, caution: texting ahead, the missing Minnesotans in Somalia, and why people really aren’t rebelling against Facebook over privacy. Read more →
Sindy Hooper, 50, finished the Ironman Triathlon in British Columbia yesterday, just under the maximum time allowed in the race: 17 hours. She finished in 16 hours and 24 minutes. While undergoing chemo. Read more →
Oh, it’s on now between charcoal and gas, my friends.
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