The Importance of Smell in Recovery

When he was five years old, his sister was diagnosed with leukemia. After two and a half years of chemotherapy treatments, she walked out of the hospital cancer-free. While I slipped into a coma, the hospital sent a priest and a social worker to comfort my parents. It was the same priest who had met with them a decade earlier on the evening they found out their daughter had cancer. Despite being cut from the varsity baseball team as a junior at Denison University, Andrew learned how to keep his room neat and tidy.