While Boston Celtics Vice President of Public Relations Heather Walker likely wishes she had less in common with President Joe Biden than she does, their shared link via glioblastoma brought the two together in common cause to defeat it.
Glioblastoma is a rare form of brain cancer she has been fighting since a 2021 diagnosis. It is the same disease Biden’s son Beau died from in 2015.
The U.S. president, in town to promote his “cancer moonshot” program whose goal is to halve deaths from the disease in the United States, met with the Celtics executive and gave her a handkerchief.
“He hugged me and he knows what I am going through,” Walker said via WCVB Boston. “It was a moment we shared that was unbelievable.”
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“I’m meant to be here to help and raise awareness for it,” Walker related, referencing the more than $600,000 she has raised with The Jimmy Fund.
“I’m strong inside and I’m going to make it. Mark my words, I’m still going to be here in years and we’re going to be right in front of Biden saying: ‘Remember when we talked about this?'”
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