The DonWatch Journal

The DonWatch Journal: Introduction

This journal is the personal account of how a gay couple faced the challenges of two life-threatening illnesses: first a brain hemorrhage, and then the diagnosis of glioblastoma multiforme, a malignant brain tumor.

The journal was last updated on Thursday, 25-Mar-2004 12:10:03 PST. In an e-mail dated Feb. 27, 2004, Andrew Freinkel, M.D., Principal Investigator of the Glioblastoma Distance Healing Project of the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, requested that certain personal information be removed from the journal entries made during Don's first visit with him. Consequently, the entries for the week of August 22-28, 1999, have been abridged.

Through a happy coincidence, I have found an audio tape of Don leading a yoga class and a meditation exercise. The tape, Yoga and Meditation with Vivekan, is available through Beautiful Dreamer Press. Click here to download an MP3 file and hear Don singing the "Asato ma sat gamaya" chant which ends the tape:

	Lead us from the unreal to the real,
	Lead us from the darkness to the light,
	Lead us from the fear of death to knowledge of immortality,
	Om, peace, peace, peace.

Don's three books of poems, The White Crack, Maya, and Hard Bitz, are also available from Beautiful Dreamer Press.

The DonWatch Journal contains frank discussions about gay sexuality, spirituality, cancer, and death. Do not read it if these topics upset you.

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