At 15, My Childhood Sweetheart Promised Me 60 Sunflowers on My 60th Birthday – He Passed Away That Year, but 45 Years Later, They Appeared on My Porch with a Box That Made Me Shake – Welcome

My mother, Monica, had helped grow it from twelve employees to nearly ninety.

Healthcare was our family business.

For me, medicine had always meant something different.

I volunteered at a rehabilitation hospital, took every science course available, and spent two summers in a university laboratory doing whatever work they trusted a teenager to handle.continue reading …