Our CancerDiva is dead. Terry Hayes, an administrative assistant in the Chronicle's sports department whose award-winning blog for Chron.com detailed a year in the life of a cancer survivor, died Sunday night at a Houston hospice. She was 42. Hayes spent five years as one of the newspaper's essential support staffers, handling unseen but critical behind-the-scenes tasks, deflecting and distributing calls and complaints, and encouraging — on occasion, demanding — that co-workers live up to her fierce sense of duty and hard work.
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n April 2006, she was diagnosed with terminal colon cancer and was told she had about two years to live. Ten months later, she began "blogging the adventure" as CancerDiva, a name that she said reflected the "mix of darkness and light" that accompanied her battle for survival.
For the next several months, CancerDiva offered readers her thoughts on topics ranging from European travel to the painful tedium of chemotherapy to thoughts about death to the adventures of her beloved cat, Sasha. She was cited as the state's best newspaper blogger in 2008 by the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Association. READ MORE
http://blogs.chron.com/cancerdiva/
When Hayes' blog came online I thought it was a brave thing to do. I am sure she helped and inspired a lot of people with her writing. CONTACT: Leave me a Houston or Texas media news tip | COMMENT: Click to leave your thoughts on this post here
