Dear Steve, I am heartbroken at your passing, although I am so grateful to have been given so much extra time with you than was expected after you were diagnosed with stage 4 Glioblastoma in 2006. You are my inspiration. The way you handled the cruellest diagnosis that took away your ability to carry on with the thing that gave you happiness - comedy. I remember you giving up your computer and you could no longer write and how hard that was for you. But you had dignity, zero self-pity, bitterness or resentment. You wouldn’t accept sympathy, you told people to not feel sorry for you but instead to think of the little children on the cancer ward that had not yet experienced life. You looked after yourself so well considering you lived alone and had only yourself to rely on day to day. Your sisters live far away but we did everything in our power to support you. We always loved you so much, our little brother. We had to accept that you wanted to do things your way and you made that clear early on and so it was until the end. I love you Steve, my little childhood friend who went everywhere with me. We grew up and were always close and I know that you loved me very much. Rest In Peace my deep, honest and kind brother. I will never forget you.
Your sister Maz xxxx
Marilyn Raiszadeh
21/10/2020
