Back to the Purdue Boilermakers Newsfeed

Hammer Down Cancer? Yeah, It’s Personal

This is a story about cancer. That means it’s also a story about insurance which, given the insurance at issue here, becomes inherently political. I’m not going to shy away from the facts in this story because I think they’re important. They matter, because my mom matters.

I’d spent all of my life living in Indiana, sparing a summer working for Special Olympics Minnesota with an ill-fated then girlfriend, until my wife and I moved to Virginia. It seemed like a world away. For the first time in my life I was moving away from my family. My brothers would all be a 10+ hour drive or a 1.