“I think it’s him trying to keep her spirit alive. Maddie, who is bound for Ohio State in the fall, said her father tries to mention Stefanie once a day - “mainly for my little sisters because they were so young.” Since her death, Chris and their children have adjusted by looking back and looking forward. “She was just not ready to say, ‘I’m done.’?” “It was the most meaningful thing for Noah to look out and see his mom,” Fitz said. Stefanie got up at home and sat in a wheelchair for two hours - the length of the musical - to prove she could handle it. Chris was skeptical at that point, Stefanie was bedridden and sleeping most of the time. Just 12 days before Stefanie’s death, Noah was performing the lead role in a middle-school musical, and Stefanie was determined to go. The book also pulls back the curtain on a family coping with the imminent death of a loved one, offering intimate details of the end-of-life experience. “If somebody asks me how I got through it, I’m going to tell them what I believe and what I experienced to be the truth,” he said, adding that Stefanie “didn’t have a fear of death. Writing the book without discussing their faith would have been impossible, said Chris, who adheres to the philosophy of “Expose your beliefs but never impose.” The family belongs to Trinity United Methodist Church in Marble Cliff. “It was part of our mission to take our situation and use it to help somebody,” Spielman said.Ī central theme of the book focuses on how the Spielmans relied on their faith for strength and solace. For months, he spent time each day telling the story to Hooley, his colleague at the time at WBNS (97.1 FM). He didn’t start the process until early 2009 - after the cancer had advanced to Stefanie’s brain. The couple, Spielman said, long talked about writing a book. Chris is “doing as well as anybody could under the circumstances,” said Stefanie’s sister Sue Fitz, who lives several blocks away.Īs soon as the cancer was diagnosed in 1998, Stefanie chose to go public with her fight, which continued through multiple recurrences during the next 11 years.
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