TUMOR ME – THE STORY OF MY FIREFIGHTER
written by Judith DeChesere-Boyle, is a new memoir that chronicles
the nine-year battle with brain cancer of her son, Alex Stevenson,
a CAL FIRE Fire Apparatus Engineer, who served in Napa County, CA.
Alex Stevenson died at the age of 39 on May 24, 2013 of job-related brain cancer. He was awarded full honors by CAL FIRE, his firefighting “family” and was further honored at the IAFF Fallen Firefighter Memorial in Colorado Springs, CO in September 2013 as well as by the California Fire Foundation in Sacramento, CA in October 2013. The “blurb” on the back cover of the memoir introduces the story of a man who had been living his childhood dream of being a firefighter until he was diagnosed with the brain cancer that took his life. This 500-page memoir chronicles the journey and includes an appendix with “words for Alex” from his CAL FIRE colleagues as well as others. The author is donating a portion of the proceeds from the sale of this memoir to the American Brain Tumor Association. It is available on Amazon.com.
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