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Today, Mr. Goldberg focuses on his newfound job as a sales representative at Hovinga Busi- ness Systems, an office equip- ment company in Novi. His goal is to excel in the workforce. As for Mr. Goldberg's social life, well, the bar scene has pret- ty much given way to the Jew- ish singles' circuit. Eventually, Mr. Goldberg would like to set- tle down and have children. He still has occasional episodes of loneliness and de- pression, which he combats by looking toward the future: "I think to myself that there will be a child or two in my life who will hear what their father went through to stay alive, and they'll be happy. I've realized that if I apply myself, I can over- come anything. I never wanted to die. rm obsessed with living." finical social worker Joan Israel says young adults with serious illnesses should consider modify- ing their expectations of life. "Young adulthood is usually a time of vitality and hopeful- ness. When there is a life-threat- ening illness, however, special issues arise in terms of the fu- ture and making sure you find feasible goals," Ms. Israel says. These young adults must cope with questions of living or dying, paying medical bills and sustaining experimental treat- ments. While wondering if they'll be alive to see the next year, they witness their friends getting married, having chil- dren and buying homes. Ms. Israel stresses the im- portance of confronting the pos- sibility that such dreams might not come to fruition. "You might not be able to get married and have a family. But that might be true even if you do not have a life-threatening illness. Maybe you have to change your goals." Coping techniques Ms. Israel suggests include individual and group therapy, social activities and keeping a journal. For Lori Horwitz, keeping a journal served a two-pronged purpose: It helped her commu- nicate when she was too weak to tell friends how she was feel- ing, and it provided a venue for catharsis. C "Death to Oscar!" is scrawled on many pages. Death to death, in other words. Says Ms. Horwitz: "I had three head surgeries in a year and a half. At first, I was real strident. My body might be go- ing against me, but not my mind, not my emotions. "But how can you be totally OK after all the operations and radiation? You can't, and it takes a lot to admit it. Writing the journal was really thera- peutic." Taking control of her medical care also was therapeutic. At first, Ms. Horwitz consulted a doctor after experiencing fre- quent and severe headaches. Then she reported "grey blobs" floating across her eyes and im- pairing her vision. The grey blobs turned out to be an indication of photostasia, symptomatic of brain tumors. A week after her first doctor's appointment, Ms. Horwitz was under a neurosurgeon's knife in an operating room at Henry Ford Hospital. Doctors located a tumor the size of an olive in the pineal re- gion of her brain. Because the tumor was embedded in the brain stem, where many of the body's functions are regulated, doctors could not extract the whole tumor. No one expected the tumor to grow back, but it did. In De- cember 1991, a medical test de- tected an irregularity, which doctors attributed to scar tis- sue. They suggested Ms. Hor- witz receive another test in six months. But she demanded a follow- up after three months. Her in- sistence might have saved her life. Ms. Horwitz again found herself in the operating room. This time, the tumor was the size of a golf ball. After surgery, she started ra- diation treatments at Harper Hospital in Detroit. "I was a ragged mess for a very long time," she says. "Dur- ing radiation, I cried every oth- er second." But she also got tough. Ms. Horwitz scoured libraries to re- search her illness. And she wasn't afraid to express her thoughts to medical profes- sionals.