Tag: medically-induced coma

Don’t Bet Against Ray Johnston

Ray Johnston made the NBA, beat leukemia and formed a rock group, The Ray Johnston Band.  Curing cancer and getting a date with Jennifer Aniston are next on his list. Don’t bet against him. He’s a modern Odysseus whose talents and determination have taken him from an undrafted signee with the Dallas Mavericks to lying…

From the Deepest Valley to the Highest Peak: A Survivor’s View From the Top of The World

When asked by the New York Times in March 1923 why he wanted to climb Mount Everest, English mountaineer George Mallory famously responded, “because it’s there.” Nearly eighty years later, Ohioan Sean Swarner also summited Mt. Everest; not because the mountain was there, but because he was. The survivor of two highly-lethal cancers during his…