Dov Siporin and Steve Siporin

Recorded April 4, 2009 49:41 minutes

Id: MBY005252

Steve interviews his son Dov about his experience with cancer.

It has been an amazing year. Steve wishes Dov didn’t have cancer, but it has brought out the best in him.

In Jan of 2008 Dov woke up having passed a lot of blood. It turned out to be stage 4 colon cancer.

“If you make fun of something it loses the power to scare you.”

Dov realized he would spend a lot of time bare butted in the hospital.

Dov’s wife wrote quotes on his butt to have fun with the nurses. “Does this radiation make my butt look big?”

The oncologist didn’t know what to do with him. He drew hearts on his butt on valentine’s day.

Dov’s son Matton has started using chemo as an excuse to not eat his vegetables.

Most cancer patients look depressed. Dov did long distance running to give himself something to do other than sitting and being infused w/ poisons.

Dov decided to wear a red thong to his last day of radiation. He had lots of fun shopping for a thong with his parents in Victoria’s Secret.

“The fact that we die makes life sweet.”