I’ve been a regular blood donor since 1981. But it wasn’t until my wife, Kelly, was diagnosed with stage IV anal cancer in 2014 that blood donation became personal.
As a cancer caregiver, you learn that “you” becomes “we.” Following Kelly’s diagnosis, I set everything in my life aside. I became an expert in her type of cancer and the treatments and procedures.
After she completed chemotherapy and radiation therapy near our...
