On Sunday, Michael Hirsch finally rested.
For nearly 20 years, he has dreamed about playing college football. And in 2011, he got to the cusp of stepping on that field at Harvard.
But just when he got close enough to a real college game, he was sidetracked by a life-threatening condition.
He rallied to graduate and work on Wall Street, but the football dream appeared gone.
To combat Wegener’s disease, Hirsch endured at least 14 rounds of chemotherapy and five or six surgeries.
He had moments when he could barely walk and couldn’t talk, and there were no answers about his future, about how he would live, let alone work or be an elite athlete.