One of Winston Churchill’s famous quotes was “If you are going through hell, keep going.” My husband Mike was a follower of Winston Churchill, the statesman who led his country through the most difficult times during WWII. Mike read everything about him and when we made our first trip to London we had to buy a cheap ceramic coffee mug of Winston Churchill to bring home.

I picked this quote because 20 years ago Mike was diagnosed with leukemia. He went through hell. But keep going. He was in Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital for 8 weeks but he survived. And only to have Covid take him from us. And now, to have people say, “Didn’t he have an underlying issue?”