Tonight's picture was taken in February of 2006. I actually took a series of photos that day of Mattie and his tinker toy sets that he built in our living room with Peter. As you can see he was one happy boy! Another funny thing about Mattie was he loved stickers. If you notice he has a sticker on his shirt, but he liked this sticker so much that even though it lost its sticky backing and kept falling off, Mattie decided to re-attached it to his shirt with tape!
Quote of the day: Love is stronger than death even though it can’t stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can’t separate people from love. It can’t take away our memories either. In the end, life is stronger than death. ~ Unknown
I mentioned in the February 10th blog, that Peter and I were interviewed by a local TV chat show host, Karen Allyn. On Tuesday the clip aired on Channel 21 (a local Maryland channel) and now the video is available on-line at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvnDl1ZdScY
The video clip is 27 minutes long and it was a "cold" interview, as I call it because we had no advanced warning on what Karen was going to ask us. We also had no way to prepare for which of us was going to talk first, who was going to say what and address certain points. Peter and I have different strengths and talk differently. Which is a good thing because between the both of us, we hit both the emotional aspects and the factual components of our story.
Today, Peter and I were asked to do a podcast (a digital audio file made available on the Internet for downloading to a computer or portable media player) for the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO--was founded in 1964 by a small group of physician members of the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) who recognized the need for the creation of a separate Society dedicated to issues unique to clinical oncology). This was a completely NEW experience for me. I do not LOVE talking on the telephone in general and having to just talk into a phone and hold a conversation with Peter, without a moderator and someone asking us questions was hard!!! ASCO sent us questions ahead of time that they wanted us to address and talk to, but I have to say it was an interesting experience and can't wait to hear what the final product sounds like when it comes out in March.
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