Request from Stuart Warner

This is a request from Stuart Warner:

My friend and former Plain Dealer colleague Mark Gillispie has lung cancer. So far he has survived a year. He began chronicling his battle when he first learned he had the disease. I've read the journal he kept and it is remarkable. It was supposed to be published in the Plain Dealer, but, as sometimes happens, good people disagree. Still, I think it is a story that needs to be told and he has been turning parts of his journal into a blog, Flying Blind. This is not another lecture to smokers. It's a story about a man who knows what he did to himself and realizes now he has so much to live for. I'm reaching out to my journalism and writing friends to ask If you can share it on your Facebook (some of you already have), Twitter or just email it to a friend who you think might need to read it. You might just help one person. This is a link to the first installment of Flying Blind. There have been 25 so far. http://markscancerblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/jan-16-2013.html

Thanks,

Stuart Warner