There are times in people’s lives when they hit the abyss. When things look so incredibly bleak and you feel that you will never dig yourself out. Last year I faced the abyss and Lanette, with her kindness and love and infectious spirit helped drag me out of the abyss, here is my story.
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I think it was at a brain tumor conference in Florida in 2006 (?) that I saw Lanette in the lobby of my hotel – sitting in an overstuffed chair, surrounded with greeting cards she was preparing for some Brain Buddies.
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My partner Jack and I first encountered Lanette nearly three weeks after his first brain surgery in October 2004. In fact, it was a Thursday evening October 21, 2004 when she called our home to introduce herself and offer her support as a brain tumor survivor. Those days leading up to that weekend are burned into my memory as within 36 hours of talking to Lanette on that Thursday evening Jack would suffer a stroke and nearly die.
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