Late last year, I followed a link from Anne Lindsay's site to the site of another fiddler, Oliver Schroer.
Schroer, it turned out, was awaiting a bone marrow transplant. Although I'd never heard of him, I have a longstanding interest in the bone marrow donor registry, so I followed his case on and off for months. He was that rarest of rare phenomenona, a guy who managed to find an unrelated match. Luck was not with him, however, and his cancer returned before the transplant could be carried out. I found out last night that his doctors have declared him terminal.
Considering I know almost nothing about the guy, I'm kind of bent out of shape about it.
He wrote this amazing letter for his website that I thought I would share. It'll make you think.
http://www.oliverschroer.com/leukemia.htm
borderline useless from hanging around