Rogier’s Road to Recovery

Q: What is better than a Wear Yellow wristband from the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF)?
A: A whole box filled with a hundred of ‘m!
Today I got my shipment of wristbands, together with a nice cap and a polo shirt. I also got the Survivorship Notebook with information and tips on dealing with cancer. It’s great [...]

This evening, I read the weblog of Merel van den Berg, a 27-year old cancer patient with Non-Hodgkin. It is a heartbreaking story of a young woman who has faced a lot of setbacks in the course of her treatment. It took over one-and-a-half hours of reading and crying to get through it. Her character [...]

Last Friday, I got the results of my x-ray of the week before and they were good !! This was such a relief!
When Hodgkin-tumours diminish due to chemotherapy/radiotherapy they leave some scar-tissue (“littekenweefsel”) behind. With this x-ray you can see whether the remaining scar tissue changed compared to the CT-scan done last [...]

Thursday, September 8 2005
Dear Friends around the Globe,
An update with info and pictures on two great holidays and more!
- Upcoming.
Last week I got an x-ray to make sure cancer has left my body. I’ll get the results soon. This is the first *real* x-ray check after I finished my treatment – so I’m quite a [...]

Wow… I just found out that the reference book Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry second edition by Wiley Publishers is out on the market, where my Professor at Princeton and I submitted a chapter to… for only eur €4,399.00 it is yours! But if you order right now, you get a small discount (how nice). Check [...]

Tonight there was a fun dinner with all Assessoren ever from the Faculty of Science. I thoroughly instructed Victor, my successor at the time, to organise some sort of reunion/gettogether as he was the fifth Assessor… but he didn’t. Now after 2 more years, however, he has seen the light and tonight we had drinks [...]

Now that we’re back we had some time to go over all the pictures… There are just over 500 – little bit too much right? If you just want to dive in you can click here to see them all. Otherwise you can find a few great ones underneath!

Pretty California babe on the [...]