Leroy Sievers, who is living with metastatic colon cancer, is featured on National Public Radio’s call-in program Talk of the Nation, Monday, April 16th. Live shows are carried by NPR stations at 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. Eastern time. An audio webcast will be available on the Talk of the Nation site about 6 p.m. that day.
The show will be broadcast from Washington D.C. before a live audience. People who want to be part of the audience should contact NPR at talk@npr.org.
Sievers writes an insightful daily blog for NPR — My Cancer — where he chronicles his life dealing with colon cancer that has spread to his brain.
Talking about the language of cancer, he writes,
Maybe the best thing to say is that we all just “deal with it.” Some days that involves fighting; other days, coping. Some days we don’t win, some days it’s a struggle to do the smallest thing and other days the battle swings our way. We all just deal with it in our own ways and do the best we can on any given day.
Sievers has won 12 national news Emmys and two Peabody awards. He worked for ABC News Nightline for 14 years, four years as executive producers. As a correspondent he covered more than a dozen wars, accompanying Ted Koppel during the invasion of Iraq.
His blog has many followers, both cancer patients and family members, who write often to comment on what he says each day.
October 09, 2007 at 8:03 pm, Ted Kindler said:
I have not received any e-mails from Leroy for over a week! Is he alright?
October 09, 2007 at 9:48 pm, Kate Murphy said:
Leroy’s been in the hospital for back surgery. He came home today (October 9th) and promises a new blog tomorrow. However, his friends have been keeping us up-to-date on his progress. Check out http://www.npr.org/blogs/mycancer/ for the latest.