Smakkie wants a party!?
Alexander Smakman is a member of Faust (fraternity), who joined us last February. He called me last Wednesday with pretty bad news: he was in the LUMC and diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia. Last Friday we visited him with a group of Faust and I told him that if he wanted such a big surpriseparty as I had last April… we could just have celebrated his birthday like that 
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Tonight I visited him again, and I was happy to see he was looking a bit more cheerful. I brought him a small pile of wristbands of the Lance Armstrong Foundation and his Live Strong Survivorship Notebook is on it’s way. Small things a fellow member of the cancer-community can get you. His chemotherapy will start next Tuesday, which will be the beginning of the end of cancer in Smakkie’s body. He’s young, strong and in one of the best hospitals in Europe.
He set up his own blog – which you can soon reach through www.smakkie.nl as well, which I thought was funny to claim for him 
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