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After five weeks of chemotherapy, Steve came home but was forced to go back to UVa after he developed tuberculosis, a side effect of the leukemia treatment. In May, with the TB cured, he returned to Rappahannock. “He got so well, we started thinking he might be one of the lucky five per cent,” Pat said. She quickly added, however, that all along, the doctors never held out any hope for a cure. In fact, she said, health department director Dr. R. S. LeGarde told her that her husband lived longer With acute myelocytic leukemia than anyone he knew.
Besides his war against leukemia, Steve fought another side skirmish. He developed cancer behind the eye but beat the attack off with three cobalt treatments. The progress of his major enemy continued, however, and in November, the disease came out of the state of remission that had lasted since February.
“I thought he was having a heart attack but his lungs had filled up with fluid,” Pat remembered. Her husband went back to Charlottesville and, still unwilling to concede defeat, opted for another round of chemotherapy, even though'
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