What it's like to tell your club your secret
From the January 2016 issue of The Rotarian. In this issue, we kick off 2016 with first-person accounts of Rotary members’ most harrowing and heartfelt personal experiences. Pick up the issue to explore more stories.
Dushan “Dude” Angius
Rotary Club of Los Altos, Calif.
On Christmas Eve 1988, I picked up my son Steve at the airport. He always kept himself in good shape, but he was so skinny it was really beyond the pale. I didn’t say anything, but Christmas morning I asked him, “Are you right?”
He said, “No, actually, I’m not well at all.” At first, he said he had Kaposi sarcoma, which is a…