A Lucky Life Interrupted Quotes

“Healthcare workers are not being shot at, obviously, but they are exposed to dangerous diseases; they lead unconventional, all-hours lives; they are mission-oriented and they work in a hierarchical environment, with the physicians on top and orderlies doing the grunt work at the bottom.”
― Tom Brokaw, A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope

“Cancer of whatever flavour triggers a reflective gene: Just let me live and I will learn to be a better person.”
― Tom Brokaw, A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope

“What was that World War I saying, “Trust the Lord and pass the ammo”? For me, trust the doctors and the Lord and pass the Velcade, Revlimid, dexamethasone.”
― Tom Brokaw, A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope

“American Cancer Society estimates that in 2015 1,658,370 new cancer cases will be diagnosed and that in the same year about 1,600 people will die from cancer-related conditions daily.”
― Tom Brokaw, A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope

“The educated class knows the value of good health to quality of life and is willing to pay for it. The poor are more likely to trap themselves in a culture of smoking, poor nutrition, obesity, drugs, and only sporadic attention from a physician.”
― Tom Brokaw, A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope

“Rich got a plan for living. Poor got a plan for dying.”
― Tom Brokaw, A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope

“I hoped that as time passed I would be able to raise the cancer shade and allow more light into my daily life. Until then it is CANCER EVERY WAKING MOMENT and the realization that it will be with me until the end, by whatever means.”
― Tom Brokaw, A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope

“His life before the triumph that defined his legacy was a reminder of the importance of patience, courage, and the absence of self-pity.”
― Tom Brokaw, A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope

“The personal case histories were the most encouraging. A prominent Los Angeles public relations executive has been living with MM for fourteen years, rides horses, and has an altogether active life on drug maintenance. An Arizona man survived MM and with his wife set up a foundation and website for other families bewildered by the diagnosis. I learned, for the first time, that Frank McGee, host of the Today show from 1971 to 1974, suffered from MM and kept it from everyone despite his ever more gaunt appearance. When he died after putting in another full week on the air his producers and friends were stunned. Sam Walton, founder of Walmart, was another MM casualty, which led many to believe that he had established the high-profile multiple myeloma treatment center in Little Rock, Arkansas. This is a full-immersion process in which MM is the singular target under the commanding title of Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy. There is a Walton auditorium on the institute’s University of Arkansas medical school campus, but the institute itself was founded by Bart Barlogie, a renowned MM specialist from the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. The institute has an impressive record, running well ahead of the national average for survival for those who are dealing with MM. One number is especially notable. The institute has followed 1,070 patients for more than ten years, and 783 have never had a relapse of the disease. Sam Walton was treated by Dr. Barlogie at MD Anderson before the Little Rock institute was founded, but the connection ended there. Walton, who’d had an earlier struggle with leukemia, didn’t survive his encounter with multiple myeloma, dying in April 1992, a time when life expectancy for a man his age with this cancer was short. I was unaware of all of this when I was diagnosed. I took comfort in the repeated reassurances of specialists that great progress in treating MM with a new class of drugs, your own body’s reengineered immunology system, was rapidly improving chances of a longer survival than the published five to ten years. As I began to respond to treatment the favored and welcome line was, “You’re gonna die but from something else.”
― Tom Brokaw, A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope

“Is that cancer curable or just treatable.”
― Tom Brokaw, A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope

“Seventy-six for an American male was a number on an actuarial chart that includes men who are obese, smokers and inheritors of deadly family genes.”
― Tom Brokaw, A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope

“book. Myeloma as a description has its origins with the Greek medical genius Hippocrates, who did the earliest known work on cancer, which he called karkinoma (carcinoma) because the tumors often resembled a crab, karkinos in ancient Greek. In modern descriptions, the condition is complex and treacherous: Plasma cells in the bone marrow become malignant and produce tumors, causing destruction of the bone and resulting in pathologic fracture and pain. A secretory form of the disease is characterized by the presence of Bence-Jones protein, a monoclonal immunoglobulin, which can cause anemia and kidney disease”
― Tom Brokaw, A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope

“no one in any commercial seems to be unhappy or angry, whatever the circumstances.”
― Tom Brokaw, A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope

“Given a long enough life, cancer will eventually kill you—unless you die first of something else.”
― Tom Brokaw, A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope

“On the Cancer Frontier,”
― Tom Brokaw, A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope

“reform-minded general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, the most powerful position in Russia, the Soviet satellites were moving toward independence. I was in Prague the night the Velvet Revolution separated Czechoslovakia from Moscow’s rule and spent time in Poland with the charismatic Lech Walesa, who led Solidarity. Nineteen eighty-nine was that kind of year. Earlier, in June, I finished a commencement address at Tulane University School of Medicine on a Saturday morning and got a call from our news desk: Chinese troops had moved on young urban protesters who had taken over Tiananmen Square in the heart of the Chinese capital, demanding more political and personal freedom after a state visit from Gorbachev, who was reforming”
― Tom Brokaw, A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope

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― Tom Brokaw, A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope