Starting immunotherapy next week
January 5, 2024//
After doing due diligence , being tested and getting consultations I am about to start treatment in an effort to reduce symptoms and extend my life .
After 5 decades of serving as a doctor I am relearning how to be a patient myself and especially how to to be an active patient with cancer as I strive to help my medical team , family and friends help me this time. Sharing this with you all is an important part of this stage of my life . I will keep you all posted . I will be getting infusions every month and be monitored for tolerance and effectiveness . Thank you for all the good wishes and warm expressions about what matters to you and me as I enter this stage of the process
Wishing you well as you start this process. Jim and I had Covid so missed your Regatta Bar performance. But we passed on our tickets to your sold out event.
Thank you for continuing to share this journey. You are continuing to teach me about living with choices and uncertainty in a positive and discriminating way. Keeping you in my thoughts and prayers.
Stan, Godspeed with this phase of your journey. Zaza & I hold you and your family close in our prayers. Glaudine
Thank for for your continued sharing Stan. With great love, optimism, hope, recognizing the the roller coaster that this can be. With palms pressed and head bowed, AliceN
You treated me many years ago when I was pregnant with my now 42 year old daughter. I wish you well through this journey. As a cancer survivor, I know some of what you are facing with so much grace and courage.
Dear Stanley
Wishing you a successful response to the immunotherapy treatment.
Thank you for sharing your experiences of dealing with an episode of cancer. Such a scary word and yet, as Bonnie pointed out above, living with choices and uncertainty is so much part of the human experience. We have much to learn from your openness and honesty.
With love, Ilana
The Adams-Lukowsky Family sends you warm regards and our hopes for you for the future. We loved the Regatta Bar evening: the best yet! With Kaitlyn unable to attend, she’s planning for the next one, Hashem willing. Bless you and keep you.
You are in my prayers…and always in my gratitude for your kind care in the past.
Greetings from the Azores, Stanley! I remember Tony Rocha inviting you to come here.
We’re sending you all the best, grateful for all you mean to our extended family and praying that you receive the same sensitive and loving care that you have given to all of us.
Ruth
We are holding you in the Light. Steve and Joyce
Dear Stan,
Thank you for continuing to share your experience. I do wonder how you’re doing. My thoughts and prayers will be with you and your family as you proceed. Btw, I was unable to get tickets to your Regatta Bar event. I’m hoping to be able to go to the next one!
Fondly,
Peggy
All of my best vibes, best thoughts, and best wishes are headed your way as you start this process. With so much good will in your corner, success seems like the only option.
Dear Stanley, my daughter, Lila, sent me your news and while we haven’t seen each other in decades I have never forgotten your thoughtful attention to me, my children – who you helped into the world- and especially to my late husband, Phil. I wish for you a path forward, rich with love and learning and comfort. Xo Amy
Thanks so much for sharing, Stanley. You are a fabulous inspiration and I love you. Sending love and healing wishes to you always. Love you.
Dear Stanley
Wishing you the best of luck in your treatments!
Muchos abrazos de
Frank and Sara Geoffrion
thanks for the good wishes
Stanley, wishing you many more years of peace and energy, tolerance to medications, and continued inspiration to all of us, the beneficiaries of your years of good medicine.
David Stricker
thanks
Stan – thanks so much for the update. Please keep us posted on how you are doing.
Sending you healing energy + lots of love.
Janet McGrath
Thank you for keeping us updated on how you’re doing. We wish you good luck with your immunotherapy treatment. We are very appreciative of your presence in our lives over more than forty years! Sending you our love!
Dear Stanley. Thank you so much for sharing your journey with us. For so many years, you guided our family’s journey – through childbirth, child health, our health, through life events, etc. Being part of your journey now feels like a blessing – to be able to be with you and give back, even a little bit. I wish you a journey full of love of friends and family, and of course, to be able to have interesting experiences along the way. Sending love and appreciation.
you are giving back and I am getting it
Dear Stanley,
Thank you for sharing your experience with us. We wish you well with your immunotherapy treatment. After more than forty years of being your patients, we are sending you and your wonderful family our love.
Always, Wendi and Steve
WITH YOU, who made a HUGE difference in my and my family’s life, Stanley.
Hello Dr Sagov. I was both shocked and saddened to hear your news. You have taken care of me for over 40 years and have kept me grounded with your enormous wealth of knowledge on so many subjects, your sense of humor and primarily your kindness and compassion. I will always remember your patience when I called you at 2:00 am as a first time mother because my baby wouldn’t stop crying. I am selfishly relieved that you will be starting immunotherapy.
thank you for your kindness and compassion too
You’ll be a great patient. After all, you’ve had the best patients to learn from 😉
I didn’t catch where you’re going to be treated but if your experience is anything like ours, you’ll be in good hands, get accurate data to aid your course and be well supported in small and big decisions, and have the best chance to cycle many more miles and cut many more albums.
All the best. We’re pulling for you, of course.
will continue to be nourished by your support.
Stan – keeping the faith with and for you during this next phase of the journey. Sending love and healing wishes to you, Liv and family. Deborah in Oregon.
thanks Deborah..
Stan… This sounds like a good way to go… Good luck to you as you begin this journey… learning how to be a patient patient is a good frame for what’s opening up… entering on it with curiosity and amazement… a day at a time… a moment at a time… enjoying whatever there is to enjoy… allowing space in your heart for the rest, with deep compassion for it all, for yourself… permitting life to draw you step by step ahead… Michael
a steep learning curve some of the time and appreciate your support and invitation to stay curious and a passionate learner
Keeping you in our thoughts and prayers. The concert was beautiful. We really enjoyed your gift of music. The band was exceptional and truly play from the heart. Your feelings about jazz ring true. It does bring us together. In our lives you have always been there as our doctor, mentor, friend and one of the greatest joke tellers ever. We love you Stanley. As always thanks for your gift of music. Keep you in our hearts always. Love Steve and Pat Capuccio
thanks for being such a good audience ..listening from the heart..
thanks to your family for helping me help you
Dearest Stanley,
I hold you in my thoughts and in my heart. Wishing you all the best for a full recovery.
Thank you for your sharing and for the kindness you have demonstrated through the many years.
Love,
Barbara
thanks for your warm support
I feel you in my world too Barbara
Wishing you well as you embark on your treatment—I’m sure you’re in the best of hands. I have no doubt you’ll make a great patient, too–you’ve taught us all how to do so. Thank you for sharing; you’re always in my thoughts. Steve
thanks for the warm support.
I hope the treatment isn’t too difficult Stan. I’m sure you’re in good hands with both your medical team and your loving family
Wishing you all the best and hope the treatments help. Thanks for keeping us all in the loop.
Dear Stanley,
I wish you healing with this treatment and that you know I and so many others hold you in our hearts while we travel with you on your healing journey. I am listening to your beautiful music this morning and feel soothed by it. Thank you🙏🏻
Love,
Pattie
thanks for your warm response patty
I joined Family Practice Group fairly recently (for many years Glenn Rothfeld was my doctor and he recommended your practice when I started on Medicare). I never met you, Stanley, but I admire greatly the practice you founded. Just a few days ago one of the physicians sent a note asking us to write to our state legislators about a bill that will improve healthcare for everyone in the state. I think it is great that the doctors in the practice don’t only give excellent care to their patients, but care about the healthcare of everyone. This is the kind of caring medical practice I am grateful you have founded.
I hope you tolerate the treatments well, and that they indeed extend your life. I could not come to your music performance, but certainly hope there will be many more opportunities for me to do so. When i was 38 (i am now 76) I faced a serious cancer which luckily I survived: as Audre Lorde said: “hope is a living state that propels us, open-eyed and fearful, into all the battles of our lives. And some of those battles we do not win. but some of them we do.”
thanks for the encouragement
Dear Stanley, you and Family Practice have been our family’s medical provider for almost 40 years. You attended the birth of both of our sons, and at the other end of life, you were the personal physician of John’s mother and stepfather in their final years. You’ve had an amazing medical career, leaving FPG as your legacy. We pray that your treatments grant you plenty of time to continue sharing your philosophy of life and your wonderful music.
Love,
John & Carol
Thank you for warm support
A bit of a delay responding, in writing, that is; you’ve been in my thoughts and heart daily. I’m glad it’s immunotherapy, working with your own immune system. There is so much strength, and life, and hope to draw upon. It all spills over in the daily gift of music that pours out of you and I’m sure comes back to you. Comes back to you as does all you’ve generously given to others.
thanks for your warm response. I am nourished by that validation. I did see my calling in medicine and so loved being in the process of meriting the trust and engagement with patients colleagues and trainees.
Stanley – thank you for sharing and sharing and sharing and continuing to share so many connections of a life in medicine and music – and the creativity of healing.
always enjoyed you your music and appreciate your reaching out