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Question of the Day By CAITLIN HEANEY WEST and The (Scranton) Times-Tribune - Associated Press - Saturday, January 30, 2021
SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) - Madison Jarocha knows her life would look much different if illness had not touched her.
From an autoimmune disease that shook up her world as a teenager to broken bones to a cancer diagnosis in her final year of college, the 21-year-old has faced - and survived - more than some people do in a lifetime.
Today, Madison, of South Abington Township, has a few months to go before earning her nursing degree from University of Central Florida. As a student in Abington Heights School District, however, Madison thought she’d one day study mathematics. That, along with much more of her life, changed when she was 16.