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...right wrist. He can straighten his arms and legs and, in a swimming pool, initiate a step and push off against the wall. And he can survive for up to two hours off his respirator. Most satisfying, he has regained a remarkable level of physical sensation. "[My wife] Dana likes to rest her hand on mine when we talk," Reeve says. "Now I don't have to look to see that it's there...
...weeks before the 2001 Boston Marathon, my friend’s mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and my heart broke in that same way. Instead of punching walls, I found myself on the phone with people from the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge (DFMC), a group of about 400 people who run Boston every year and collect pledges for a research program at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The combination of blind anger, frustration and college can-do-it-ism convinced me that I could finally do something about this disease that kept invading people’s lives...
...doctor, and certainly any soon-to-be-graduate with nothing but a lot of anger and frustration. It has eluded the most brilliant minds the world has produced. Are your post-grad plans to change the world starting to make you feel important? Go walk the halls at Dana-Farber and listen to people’s stories. It will put things in perspective for you. It will make you feel utterly powerless...
What can I do? Well, I can run. I can send my fundraising letters every year, train from December to March and hand a little money over to Dana-Farber in May, maybe enough to buy a pipette or two in a researcher?...
...Mather: Eun Y. Choi, William J. Greenleaf, Katie M. Heikkinen, Alexander P. Nyren, Dana M. Scardigli and Jared R. Small...