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Living with
cancer threat, singer moves forward
GREENVILLE – “There’s some evil thing under your bed… wants to grab you
every day,” said Jeff Madewell. “You can’t let that paralyze you; you
get out of bed on a different side each day.”
This is how the professional musician who, along with his partner Erin
Higgins, recently played for Greenville Library’s August First Friday
event views his medical challenges. He knows his cancer is simply on a
back burner despite being “clear” for four years. “It’s a good sign if
I hit the five year mark,” he said. “So far so good.”
Madewell, who can count 45 radiation treatments plus two major
surgeries as part of his past, has been blind since 1985. When he was
originally diagnosed his vision was 20-20; within 10 days he was
legally blind. “I have about 3 percent vision, blurry and mostly
peripheral out of my left eye...
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