Oh yes, baby! These were the best 4 hours, 23 minutes and 29 seconds of my life. Finishing the New York City Marathon was a euphoric victory. The back of my medal rightly reads: “A thriumph of the will over all limits”. Finishing made me feel so full of life and proved I’m still capable [...]
While studying at Princeton three years ago, I mailed you all regularly updates which I called “PU-mails”. I sent 9 of them, was working on number 10, but then got cancer. PU-mail 10 was almost finished but never sent.
Reading the draft-text now feels awkward, as it comments on my last activities before all hell broke [...]
Sunday, October 8 2006
Dear Friends around the World,
Life can be tough : Sanne broke up with me in August. Sanne and I were together for seven and a half years and it was such an amazing time. Our relationship was pure, genuine and honest – I don’t think I would have changed anything if I [...]
Monday, May 8 2006
Dear Friends around the Globe,
Disaster has struck us, as I mailed you all right after Martijn died. It still feels totally unreal to me that my brother is not alive anymore – incomprehensible. Going through cancer-treatments, I already became very much aware how important your friends are for support. Once again, I’m [...]
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 [...]
Friday, July 9 2005
Dear Friends around the Globe,
Rogier is back travelling. I flew back to the US to (re)visit Princeton. It was a special holiday, confronting yet good for the soul. Afterwards there was a small ‘1903′-reunion in Leiden and I prepared for a summer full of travelling! And now I’m writing an email from [...]
Tuesday, May 17 2005
Dear Friends around the Globe,
– Surprise Party –
What a surprise-party it was!! I was absolutely overwhelmed. It was the best party in my life with the best reason for it ever.
A month ago five fantastic friends – Clemens, Died, Sanne, Evelien and Matthijs – threw a HUGE surprise-party for me to [...]
Saturday, April 9 2005
Dear Friends around the Globe,
- Been there, done that.
On January 14 I received my last dose of chemotherapy. In February I went to the hospital daily for radiotherapy. And then on February 23 at 2.30 PM something remarkable happened : I finished my treatment.
To have my 14-day cycle from chemo to chemo [...]
Wednesday, December 8 2004
Dear Friends around the Globe,
Here’s just an email to say hello to you all and tell you how I’m doing. Through my blog on http://www.van-willigen.net, I like to take our communication to the next level and provide you with more of Rogier! The website now contains these Recovery mails, but also [...]
Thursday, September 30 2004
Dear Friends around the Globe,
Certainly I hope it will not become some form of habit to start these emails every time with excuses about me not answering personal emails from you guys… I’ll get in touch with a lot of you soon! And I really appreciate getting all your emails (and also [...]
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