At 9 a.m. on May 27, just after his 90th birthday, Hector Robertson of Winchester stood at the edge of an open airplane door and wondered whether or not he
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Question of the Day By MIKE BARBER and The Richmond Times-Dispatch - Associated Press - Saturday, March 6, 2021
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) - When David Alexander III opted to stop his cancer treatments last month, he wasn’t giving up on his life. He was making sure he could live it to the fullest.
Alexander, a junior at Handley High School in Winchester and former college lacrosse prospect, passed on an aggressive surgery that would have amputated most of his lower body, required long hospitalizations and continued chemotherapy, and only had about a 25% chance of saving his life.