My advice to anyone, not just to Speakerman, is that you have something to keep you grounded. My work was my saviour. It kept me busy and not make me go crazy thinking about it all day long. One of my Aunt had stomach cancer. That same year her husband (who basically raised me because my dad was away) was diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer - the deathnell of cancers. I saw them both die weeks apart.