Bill McClellan knows full well that, a decade ago, people were writing his obituary. The legendary Post-Dispatch columnist had gone public with his diagnosis of bile duct cancer. The tumor was inoperable. A doctor told him he had 11 months. At one point, after he collapsed on a trip to Arizona, they told his wife there was nothing they could do for him. It looked like the end.
It wasn’t. Eleven years later, he’s still going strong. At 78, he’s writing a weekly column, arguing about politics on Nine PBS’ Donnybrook, and still full of good cheer and good health.
“I got some lifetime achievement awards,” McClellan quips of the period after his 2015 diagnosis. “And when I would show up later looking healthy, people go, ‘I am glad you look so good. What’s going on?’”…