Two months after Paul died, I started volunteering at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and I didn't leave for 22 years. At my retirement party, the doctor who treated Paul approached me. This time I didn't call him "Dr. Sallan," I called him "Steve."
"Steve," I said, "I was hoping you'd speak at my party." He put his arm around me and said, "Carol, today I didn't want to stand before you. I wanted to stand with you." Then he hugged me, and I felt so much for this man who had been Paul's doctor and who was now my colleague and friend.
"You ended where you began," he told me.
Carol Hancock is a founding member of the Friends of the Jimmy Fund and of the House. To this day she serves on our Board and several committees. She and her husband David volunteer as weekend substitutes several times a year.
