A rush of warm adrenaline surges through my body. I hear the buzz more than I feel the pain. I’m in the Triangle Tattoo Shop and Museum in Fort Bragg, California – a tiny NorCal coastal town. It’s tall and narrow, with funky staircases and walls crammed with framed tattoo pictures. It reminds me of 12 Grimmauld Place – a magical building impossibly squished between the houses of normality. My mom is next to me, squeezing my sweaty palm.

For years, I had shown her sketches. “No,” she said while slicing tomatoes in the kitchen. “No,” she said while filling in her sudoku. “No,” she said while stretching on her yoga mat. I show her a new sketch, this time of a manta ray – maybe I’ll get a different answer while she scrolls her iPad? “Hm,” she says. “Maybe,” she says. “Show me more sketches,” she says.

Maybe it was that I was leaving for college. Maybe it was that she has a Stage 4 lung cancer diagnosis. Maybe it was because we had swam with the most beautiful manta rays in Hawaii. Maybe it was because in Moana, the dead grandma comes back to her granddaughter in the form of a manta ray. But somehow, we ended up in the magical Triangle Tattoo Shop and Museum in Fort Bragg California, getting matching manta ray tattoos on our wrists. They now tie us together 561 miles apart. I know that someday when she passes, they will tie us together through more than 561 miles of distance.

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As the law school has informed you, I have chosen to teach Internet Law this semester as an online-only course. This was not my preference, and it’s probably not your preference either. I wanted to explain to you why I made this decision, and its implications for our time together this semester.

My wife has been diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer. This means she is immunocompromised and especially vulnerable to respiratory ailments. Even though she (and everyone in our family) is vaccinated, my wife has a nontrivial risk of dying if she contracts the virus. For that reason, we go to extra lengths to reduce her potential exposure.

We had a scare this summer when my son attended a summer camp where everyone was vaccinated. Nevertheless, the camp had at least 7 breakthrough infections. When we brought my son home from camp, we had to quarantine him for several days to ensure that my wife would not be exposed. Fortunately, my son didn’t get the virus, but his quarantine disrupted our household a lot.

If I teach in person and any student in the class gets the virus during the semester, I would almost certainly feel compelled to quarantine from my wife until I was sure I was safe. That would be hugely disruptive to my family and my schedule. Teaching online sidesteps this risk.

There’s also the practical concern that conducting lectures and class discussions where I and all of the students are masked will create significant barriers to my pedagogical goals.

Teaching online will require 2x-3x more work for me than if we were meeting in person. Yet, switching to online-only was an easy call in my situation.

I know that some of you will choose to drop the course in favor of alternative courses that are meeting in person. I understand and respect that choice. If you make that choice, I’m very sorry for any inconvenience you’ll experience and for my missed opportunity to explore Internet Law with you.

If you choose to remain in the course, note that the online version of Internet Law this semester may be more demanding on you than an in-person offering. Specifically, you will have point-earning commitments every week, and if you fall behind with the material, the course’s rapid pace will make it difficult to catch up. If investing some time in Internet Law every week sounds like a potential problem, this course may not be the right one for you.

I became a law professor principally because I am dedicated to helping students achieve their professional development goals. Regardless of teaching modality, I will give you my best efforts to achieve that goal. I welcome your ideas of what I can do to help you the most.

Because of the last-minute modality switch, I am behind in preparing my syllabus and Camino page. I will let you know as soon as they are available. I will provide you with a free PDF of the casebook via Camino when the page is ready. If you will want a hard copy, you can get it from https://amzn.to/3jmEmF5

I welcome your comments and questions. If you choose to stay enrolled, I look forward to a great semester with you.

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I first encountered Greg in the early 2000s. We exchanged emails about his work on Intel v. Hamidi, an online trespass to chattels case, where he helped his client prevail despite long odds–and established a key legal precedent in the process. Around that time, doing research for my own paper, I discovered Greg’s student note on search engines and trademark law, “Search Engines, HTML, and Trademarks: What’s the Meta For?” It was a thoughtful and well-crafted work that demanded a serious response, and I always loved the title’s pun.

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Greg’s paper with Dan Hunter, The Law of the Virtual Worlds, was a massive hit that ranks in the top 250 most downloaded papers ever at SSRN. It’s a paper that I and many other professors aspire to write: a thoughtful and provocative treatment of a cutting-edge topic just as the topic was exploding in the literature. Greg continued the discussion at the high profile blog Terra Nova, a site I secretly envied (so much so that I added a virtual worlds category to my blog as a nod to trendiness).

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Greg attended prior Internet Law Works-in-Progress conferences but couldn’t attend the 2015 event at SCU. He was on our minds, though. Attendees signed a “thinking of you” card and left video messages for him. It was a small way for the Internet Law community to send good wishes to another community member suffering major health troubles.

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Because of my wife’s health, I don’t travel very much any more. However, a business trip took me to Philadelphia last October. When my meeting ended unexpectedly early, I had a couple of extra hours in Philadelphia. This gave me time to visit Greg at his house in Swarthmore before heading to the airport. It was a lovely Fall day, and we sat outside on the patio enjoying a light breeze, watching his cats and talking about health (his and my wife’s), careers, the state of legal education and more. Physically he didn’t look the same, but his mind was sharp as ever. It was an ordinary social visit, the kind we might have had in better times–even though we might not have made the time because there always seem to be more pressing priorities. I had hoped our visit wouldn’t be our last, though I feared it would be, and I soaked up every detail so the memories would remain strong.

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Others have described Greg as a “mensch” and a “gentle man,” and I think those are perfect descriptors. Greg kept an even keel in everything he did, but his calm demeanor masked a great intellectual fire raging below. Seeing that fire extinguished, especially so prematurely, is tragic for me and all of us. I’m saddened by his death, and I’m sending my love and sympathy to Carol, Adam, Daniel and all of Greg’s family.

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Other remembrances:

* Greg’s self-written obituary
* Rutgers Today: Rutgers Law Professor, Internationally Recognized Cyberlaw Scholar Dies of Cancer
* Derek Bambauer
* James Grimmelmann
* Dean John Oberdiek

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I plan to be in my office most days during my sabbatical. It’s too hard to work at home! While I’ll be on campus pretty much as usual, I will be making some changes to my normal schedule:

* I won’t teach. This will be the first time in 20 years that I’ll not be teaching Internet Law! However, I intend to update my Internet Law reader in Summer 2015.

* I will be taking a hiatus from all of my university committee/service work. I’ve already handed off my role as Building Committee chair. I will be stepping out of my role of Co-Director of the High Tech Law Institute; I expect Brian Love will continue as director during my sabbatical. I haven’t discussed with the deans if I’ll resume the HTLI co-director role in 2016. During my sabbatical, I will also be handing off my supervision of the Privacy Law Certificate to a person TBD.

* I will be accepting speaking engagements even more selectively. I have a few trips planned before June 30. After that, I’ll probably take only 2-3 business trips over the subsequent 12 months. If you’d like to pitch me on a speaking gig or conference, by all means, please ask me! But please don’t be upset if I say no.

* I don’t expect my blogging to change. As I’ve been doing for the past year, I anticipate about 2 posts/month at Forbes, 4-6 posts/month at the Technology & Marketing Law Blog and once every couple of months here.

* I’ll also continue with my already-reduced slate of external boards, such as the Public Participation Project. However, I don’t anticipate taking on any new ones during the year.

So what will I do with my newly freed time? Obviously, my top priority is to be with my wife and family. Being a lung cancer caretaker has a fair amount of duties and time commitments, not all of which I anticipated. The sabbatical will make my schedule more flexible, so I can leave work early or take personal trips without any professional conflicts.

Professionally, here are some of the things I hope to complete by the end of my sabbatical:

* my main new sabbatical project will be on copyright law as a privacy-protection law (I plan to explain why that’s a bad idea). This is an extension of the Garcia v. Google brief I wrote with Venkat, as well as a continuation of the work I did with Jason Schultz on DoctoredReviews.com. I had hoped to present this project at WIPIP but a conflicting caretaker duty arose and I had to drop off the speaker roster. I still plan to present it at the Internet Law WIP at SCU in March.

* my long-standing vaporware paper on Section 230 and consumer reviews. This is the paper I presented at the Section 230 15 year anniversary conference…in, uh, 2011.

* two complementary short papers on keyword advertising. The first, a paper on competitive keyword advertising by lawyers, is nearly done, and I’ll be circulating it in February. The second, which I hope to finish this semester, will declare the end of keyword advertising legal battles.

* a short paper on self-publishing an electronic casebook, which I’m co-authoring with Rebecca Tushnet. We have already submitted our draft to the journal.

* a short paper on online price discrimination. This is based on a presentation I made back in 2013. I plan to present this paper at the Privacy Law Scholars Conference at Berkeley in June.

* a short paper on online contracts, following up on my AALS presentation earlier this month.

* update my Internet Law reader in Summer 2015 and 2016.

* update the Advertising & Marketing Law casebook with Rebecca, probably in Summer 2016. I also will be trying to expand the associated teacher’s manual and supplemental website.

Some of the other projects on the maybe-I’ll-get-to-them list:

* my long-standing vaporware paper on ODR for consumer review websites.

* my long-standing vaporware paper on the Duty to Police in Trademark Law with Deborah Gerhardt and Leah Chan Grinvald.

* a possible short piece on copyright and ratings.

As you can see, I expect a busy sabbatical!

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I’m a tenured law professor. There are many ways for academics to measure their activities, none of them ideal. Two metrics I’ve meticulously tracked are press quotes and public talks given. (Collecting this information helps when I explain my year’s accomplishments to my dean). I’ll show you how those stats have changed since my wife’s diagnosis.

Press Quotes

Here are the number of press quotes I’ve made over the last dozen years:

As you can see, I was consistently giving well over 200 interviews since 2010, but I slid to 150 in 2014. Another way of reading the data is that lung cancer set my media visibility back 6 years.

I can think of at least two explanations for this drop. First, I turned down more media calls than I used to (or didn’t respond quickly enough) because I was too busy with caretaker duties. Second, because I did fewer external-facing activities (as discussed below), reporters were less exposed to my work and therefore didn’t think to call me as often.

Public Talks

The drop in my public talks is even more dramatic:

I had been giving over 30 talks a year for the past few years. In 2014, I gave 9. Stated another way, lung cancer dialed back my speaking activity a dozen years.

The explanation for this is quite clear. I withdrew from numerous speaking commitments immediately upon my wife’s diagnosis and turned down all new talk requests in 2014 that required travel. [A related indicator of how much I reduced my travel: I flew 75,000 miles on United Airlines in 2013 and earned Platinum status; in 2014, I flew 15,000 miles and earned no status]. My public talks also dried up because many of my professional colleagues knew about my wife’s lung cancer (I blogged about it widely). Trying to respect my time, they simply didn’t ask me to speak even if they would have wanted me to come.

Other Impacts

I significantly scaled back my administrative duties as Director of the High Tech Law Institute. I also ended my involvement in most committees and advisory boards and have added virtually no new ones since my wife’s diagnosis. As a result, many lines in my CV end with “-2014.”

I also reduced my blogging. I don’t have precise counts of how many blog posts I do per year, but I produced fewer blog posts in 2014 than 2013. The drop is especially notable at my Forbes blog, where I had contracted to make 5 posts per month. After my wife’s diagnosis, we mutually agreed to remove that minimum, and the 2014 number dropped to about 2 per month.

Producing scholarly works is another key output for academics. 2014 was a train wreck for my scholarly writing. However, as I cleaned up all of my other obligations, it’s actually created more time for my scholarly work. I anticipate I’ll complete several publications in 2015, a rate well above my output for the past several years.

Conclusion

I hope I don’t sound like I’m complaining. In some cases, I probably needed to prune and reshuffle my professional commitments irrespective of my wife’s health. Plus, I intentionally prioritized my domestic obligations over my work obligations for very good reasons. And as unfortunate as my situation is, it’s nothing compared to my wife’s situation.

Still, I previously talked about how a lung cancer diagnosis ripples widely through a community, and this post provides more supporting evidence. Even though I’m in good health, lung cancer has hit my career hard. This is why I think lung cancer research is so crucial. It’s not just about helping people with lung cancer, it’s about preventing lung cancer from ripping open big holes in our society.

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1) Put the Kids First. Previously, my wife and I had a stereotypical division of labor: I was the revenue generator, she was the childcare provider. With my wife’s diagnosis, she could no longer provide day-to-day childcare, so I immediately took over all of the day-to-day childcare, from making lunches to picking the kids up after school. I wanted to preserve a sense of normalcy in my kids’ lives in light of the huge emotional impact they’ve felt.

A few weeks later, after feeling overwhelmed trying to manage four people’s lives, I put in place a new allowance program that codified many of the kids’ daily responsibilities (from feeding the cat to putting on sunscreen) and rewarded them for handling those tasks themselves. This has had the side benefit of helping the kids improve their independence.

2) Declutttered the Kids’ Schedules. The kids had at least one out-of-school commitment each day of the week. Each commitment made sense individually, but collectively these commitments meant the kids had little free time. I dropped a number of the kids’ commitments principally to simplify my own transportation/childcare logistics, but the change also made the kids’ daily schedule is a little less frenetic and stressful.

3) Decluttered My Schedule. I love my job, and I constantly overbooked my life with professional commitments–not because I had to, but because I enjoyed doing so. Without my wife handling childcare, many of my discretionary professional undertakings became unaffordable luxuries. In the first few days following my wife’s diagnosis, I canceled almost all of my travel, dropped off several advisory boards, reduced or eliminated some of my administrative obligations, and ramped down my blogging. I am effectively doing a mid-career reprioritization. What are the key professional deliverables I must achieve, and how will I find the time to deliver them? For me, it all starts with saying “no” more often to discretionary professional tasks, and my family’s needs provide ample motivation to say no more often.

4) Accepted the Kindness of Others. My wife chose to publicly share her diagnosis. As a result, we’ve been overwhelmed with kind offers to help us. I’ve always had difficulty accepting offers of help, so my initial reaction was to resist them. The truth is that we actually needed the help, and I’ve overcome my initial resistance and gratefully accepted some of these offers. I’ve been blown away by how our communities have rallied to assist us, even though we haven’t always been equal participants in those communities. This experience has taught me a lot about ways we can help out others in their times of need.

5) Organized Our Legal Affairs. My wife and I were both lawyers, yet we had never done any basic estate or healthcare planning. As relatively young adults in good physical health, organizing our legal affairs has always felt like something we could deal with later. Now, with the prospects of major structural changes to our lives staring us in the face, this required immediate attention.

It took a family emergency for me to take these steps, but looking back at the chaotic state of our lives, I probably needed to take many of these steps anyway. Perhaps this post will give you some impetus to review your own situation and consider if you should revamp your priorities–without waiting for a family crisis to force those choices.

Related Posts:

* Lung Cancer Isn’t Just Life-Changing. It’s Community-Changing

* Five Things I’ve Learned About Lung Cancer

* My Wife Has Lung Cancer. Read Her Story

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That’s usually true for family members residing with a cancer victim as well. Inevitably, they take on additional caregiver duties; and they too suffer the emotional toll associated with watching someone they love fighting for their lives. One person has cancer, but the whole family bears cancer’s burden.

When the doctor said my wife had lung cancer, I knew her life, and my life, and the lives of our young kids, would never be the same. What I didn’t appreciate was how other people’s lives were about to change as well.

Financial Implications

Cancer is an expensive disease. Treatments can cost millions; so much that cancer patients can run into health insurance policies’ lifetime maximum cap. Overall, Americans spend over $100 billion a year treating cancer. But cancer’s financial costs go well beyond healthcare costs.

In response to my wife’s diagnosis, my mom is moving from her Sacramento suburb (2.5 hours from us) into our Bay Area peninsula neighborhood. This might sound like the kind of sacrifice we expect moms to make for their children, but this move was hardly routine. It requires relocating my stepfather from his assisted living home, relocating her publishing business, and closing four real estate transactions (selling 2 residential properties and her office building plus buying a new residence). All told, my mom’s move implicates hundreds of thousands of dollars of healthcare expenses for my stepfather, a loss of jobs and revenue from her current community, and millions of dollars of real estate transactions. Who would have thought my wife’s lungs had such financial implications?

With such enormous economic stakes associated with a single cancer diagnosis, we must continue to invest in research for better detection tools and treatment options. Cancer isn’t just a plague on our family; it’s a drain on our society and our economy.

Implications for My Colleague

Previously, I could work hard building my career because my stay-at-home wife took primary responsibility for raising our children and running our household. Not surprisingly, my professional commitments became untenable when my wife no longer could handle those responsibilities.

I direct my law school’s High Tech Law Institute (HTLI), a key academic program at the law school. The directorship is a demanding job, consuming a lot of my time (including weekends and evenings) and attention. In light of my new caregiver responsibilities for my wife plus taking over her childcare and household responsibilities, I no longer could devote the necessary attention to the job.

Finding a successor isn’t easy. Most professors hate administrative duties, and not every professor has the skillset or personality to succeed in the job.

Fortunately, my colleague Brian Love, a patent scholar we hired in 2012, has the skills and personality to handle the job and didn’t categorically reject the idea of taking on additional administrative duties.

Unfortunately, Brian is untenured, and the director’s role can make it harder to get tenure. First, the administrative duties can be a major distraction from the other tasks required to get tenure. At minimum, Brian will have to work hard to satisfy the director’s duties and complete the tenure requirements. Second, an administrative director often makes unpopular and occasionally risky decisions—all of which could be cited against the tenure candidate come tenure-time. Brian, despite all of these downsides, graciously agreed to co-direct the HTLI with me nonetheless.

Thus, my wife’s lung cancer required me to change my professional duties, which led to my colleague making a risky and time-consuming professional move. Furthermore, when Brian attends evening and weekend events that require the director’s attendance, his wife likely will bear more childcare responsibilities for their young child.

In other words, my wife’s lungs directly affects the life of my colleague’s spouse, four social network “hops” away from her.

Cancer Destroys Communities, But It Also Builds Them

Hundreds of people have been affected, directly or indirectly, by my wife’s diagnosis. But amidst of all of this disruption, we have seen amazing generosity from expected and unexpected sources. For example, we joined a synagogue a couple months before the diagnosis, and we had just started meeting other members. When members learned about my wife’s cancer, we were inundated with offers of support: dinners, playdates, childcare, rides and so much more. It was incredible to feel so much love from a group of people we hardly knew. It’s shown us what it really means for a community to care about its members. It took a tragedy to learn that lesson, but it would have been a tragedy if we’d never learned it.

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The 6th Annual Your Next Step is the Cure San Francisco, CA 5K, by the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation, is another fundraiser in the genre, but with a big difference. For the first time, Lisa is organizing her own Team Lisa, and we anticipate the entire Goldman family (Lisa, me and the kids) will be there to participate. We have benefited substantially from the help of the Addario Foundation, and we are happy to support their work.

The event is September 21, 2014, at Lake Merced in San Francisco. They will have both a run and a walk. The Goldman family will be doing the walk. If you are able to join Team Lisa, pre-registration is $30. If you can’t join us in person but still want to donate, there is a donations page.

I’m excited about enjoying another beautiful day in California as our family and friends walk together to support Lisa. We hope to see you on September 21!

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In January, my wife was diagnosed with lung cancer. This was as shocking as it sounds. My wife is a 41 year old never-smoker vegetarian fitness instructor in otherwise excellent health. How could someone like her could get lung cancer?

Like most people, I didn’t know much about lung cancer before it hit home. Here are some of the key points I’ve since learned about lung cancer:

1) Non-smokers get lung cancer. Lots of them. You’ve seen the ads linking smoking and lung cancer. Like you, I assumed that meant only smokers got lung cancer. Instead, lots of non- and never-smoking Americans get lung cancer every year. Over 200,000 Americans are diagnosed with lung cancer every year, and about 20% of those never smoked. That means tens of thousands of American never-smokers get lung cancer every year.

2) Young women get lung cancer. Too many of them. My wife’s demographics are not unique among lung cancer patients. For unexplained reasons, lung cancer is striking younger women at increasing rates. Lung cancer among younger women is one of the most disturbing epidemics you haven’t heard of. It’s silently depleting a generation of women at their peaks.

3) Everyone wants a explanation. When I tell people that my wife has lung cancer, people often ask questions seeking some explanation for how it happened. Was it second-hand smoke? Radon? Genetics? Surely there must be a logical reason why my wife got such an unexpected disease. Unfortunately, we have no explanation except that sometimes bad things happen to good people.

4) Survival rates are abysmal. Lung cancer is an efficient killer. It’s the #1 most lethal cancer by far.

[Percent of deaths due to specific types of cancer, based on 2012 data for all Americans. Source: International Agency for Research on Cancer].

Five-year survival rates for all lung cancer patients are around 16%. (Contrast breast cancer’s 90% survival rate). For patients with advanced lung cancer, five-year survival rates are de minimis.

Why is lung cancer so lethal? First, lung cancer is often detected late. The most common symptom, a persistent cough, is easily overlooked or misdiagnosed. Second, lung cancer metastasizes easily, so it often turns into an even-harder-to-treat cancer like brain cancer. Third, advanced lung cancer is difficult or impossible to eradicate. Even if a patient with advanced lung cancer gets back a clean CT or PET scan, the lungs likely still contain cancer fragments too small to see. Fourth, lung cancer mutates a lot. The mutations mean a treatment will lose its effectiveness (often within a year or less), and the patient must then try a different treatment. At some point, there are no other treatment options to try.

5) Cancer management isn’t a “cure.” Various chemotherapies and targeted gene therapies can create windows of time where a lung cancer patient can live something resembling a normal life. To outsiders, this may look like the patient is “cured.” Instead, it’s just that the current drug treatment has brought a temporary normalcy–a calm period that will be eventually trumped by unpreventable mutations or metastizations.

BONUS: One more thing I’ve learned: The world is filled with incredibly kind people. Since we’ve announced my wife’s diagnosis, we have been overwhelmed by the generosity of others. Each day brings a new example of people going out of their way to support us. Gossip and the media often draw our attention to our society’s incivility, but unfortunately we let that overshadow the many acts of kindness by the true heroes who quietly make the world a better place.

My wife is blogging about her experiences with lung cancer. Check out “Every Breath I Take.”

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“…your post made me think for the first time about my history as a former smoker and how it may have impacted others like your wife, who were smart enough never to start, but who may well have been impacted. I’ve wondered ever I quit 22 years ago, whether my 1.5 ppd history would ultimately bite in the ass but I’ve never even considered its possible impact on innocent third parties. I’m not an inconsiderate or thoughtless person by nature but it wasn’t until I saw your post that I really viewed my own past smoking habit from that perspective. I wish I could apologize on behalf of all smokers who have potentially caused such unintended harm but I find that many current smokers are so heavily addicted that they are in denial of the health effects on those around them – even their unborn children – because to do otherwise would create (in my opinion) an undeniable moral obligation to quit. So I apologize for myself at least…”

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Here’s how I responded:

“I don’t really know what to say in response to this email except thank you for writing such an insightful and heartfelt email. It means more to us than I can really say. Lisa wanted to get the word out about the risks of lung cancer, and an email like this makes me think she’s succeeded in ways I could have never anticipated. It’s nice of you to apologize, but totally unnecessary. Instead, to the extent you are thinking about the ways you can make choices that make the world a little better, that puts a huge smile on my face, and I owe you a huge thank you.”

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I have loved all of the posts where you’ve shared our story with your friends and family. Not only have many of you said kind things about Lisa and me, but it means so much when you’ve highlighted some fact you’ve learned and helped explain it to your audience in your words. That raises awareness of the risks of lung cancer better than we ever could. As one example of the responses that have simply overwhelmed me with their kindness and thoughtfulness, see this blog post from long-time friend and colleague Bennet Kelly.

I haven’t been able to thank everyone individually, but I do promise to repay each and every one of these acts of kindness by paying it forward, as much as I can now, and more when my schedule gets more manageable.

*** Note: Tikkun Olam means “repair the world.” In Jewish tradition, we are born into a world with flaws. It is our responsibility to personally undertake to fix some of those flaws.

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