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Sonia Su vividly remembers the day she found a care kit on her hospital bed. It was 2019, and the then-25-year-old Su (COM’15) was on her third round of treatment for an aggressive form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. She’d been diagnosed the year before and gone through two rounds of chemotherapy. When she was admitted to the University of Maryland hospital for an intensive new treatment called CAR T-cell therapy, Su was nauseous, exhausted, and so weak that her mom had to help her walk through the hospital. So, when she saw a care kit donated by a former patient for someone like Su sitting on the bed in her room, it was “like the sun had just come out,” she says. ....
Credit: COURTESY Matthew Morgan In early 2017, Matthew Morgan was making progress. After battling his weight for many years, he had successfully dropped about 20 lbs., and was even going to the gym. One night in February he came home after a workout and climbed the stairs to the third floor of his house. I got a real heavy feeling in my chest, almost like someone was sitting on it, says the registrar from Brunswick, Maryland. Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow Following You ll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications. At first I didn t think anything of it, but it didn t go away, he continues. I ended up going to the hospital and they diagnosed me with a mild heart attack. ....