"Bob Weir visits with then seven-year-old Joe Knudsen as he was battling Leukemia in Palm Springs, California. Knudsen is bald, his hair gone from chemotherapy. But he has a smile on his face. Catherine said Weir visited the family at their home in the Palm Springs area. They played miniature golf, had fast food -- because it was open and Joe requested it -- and the next day, Weir and his future wife, Natascha, had breakfast with them at their home."
"And a touching moment: Weir played the Beatles song "Blackbird" on a guitar for them. "I don't know why he chose that song," Knudsen said. "It was definitely a fitting song for the time for me and my treatment going through chemo and everything, healing." And healing he is. Joe fought cancer for five years and has been in remission since."
Joe Knudsen, seven years old and undergoing chemotherapy for leukemia, met Grateful Dead founding member Bob Weir through the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Knudsen was bald from treatment but smiled while posing with Weir in a 1996 photo. Weir visited the family's Palm Springs home, played miniature golf, brought fast food per Joe's request, and later had breakfast with them alongside his future wife, Natascha. Weir played the Beatles' "Blackbird" for Joe, a song Knudsen found fitting during his treatment. Joe fought cancer for five years and has been in remission since; he and his mother live in the Coachella Valley.
Read at ABC7 San Francisco
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