Fighting high health costs. Because I can.
Sometime while I was still in high school, my mom began to have trouble breathing. She had never had asthma before; an albuterol inhaler helped for a while. Still, cold season was a nightmare, and later, so was allergy season, and every year seemed to get worse.
After college, I moved back in with my parents. She fought her way through the cold season, dutifully driving 20 miles (and later 40, …