Alan Christensen:  

CLASS OF 1980
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Des moines, WA
Bellingham, WA
Des moines, WA

Alan's Story

Life I have been married since 1994, at the time we got married we bought my parents place, so I live in the house I grew up in. I worked at Boeing for over 33 years, my and I retired at the end of 2018. It was early for me but my health issues and irritations I had with decisions being made at work helped with my decision to retire. So far I have not regretted that decision for even a minute. I collected antique phonographs for a few years, and went through a 3 year remodeling project from hell that gave me a place to display the phonographs. Winter of 2004 I was diagnosed with bladder cancer, and had my bladder removed Two weeks later my gall bladder gave up the ghost, and they took my appendix while they were in the neighborhood, so I'm light in the organs. If you are looking for a donor I'm not a good opportunity. in 2008 I started having back pain and after a lot of tests and biopsies it was discovered the bladder cancer was actually ...Expand for more
a rare nervous system tumor called a paraganglioma. I've had surgeries, radiation, chemotherapy and various drug therapies but those have not been effective. I have tried all the approved treatments, but will be participating in a clinical trial for a.nee medication in April of 2021. Hope it works as there is currently nothing else to try. . My wife and I like to travel, look for antiques, got to the movies II seem to go in 10 year spurts music wise, but the last couple of years I haven't been able to to play much.No kids for us, unless you count our cats. Latest update June 2021, The tumor came back with a vengeance, This time surgery was ineffective and it has paralyzed me from the waist down. I am currently at the University of washington rehab center trying to build upper body strength and figure out how to modify the house to accommodate me and a wheelchair. I am determined to have a normal a life as possible under these circumstances.
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