Jerome Felton isn’t big on returning phone calls, especially when he’s at training camp. So when his older sister Maike (pronounced MY-kah) called a couple of times in the summer of 2012, Felton figured he’d get back to her when he had more time. When he read the text message that soon followed he knew he had better call right away.
‘I have something important to talk to you about,’ was how the text read.
Once on the phone Felton’s sister explained to him that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. The diagnosis didn’t make sense to Felton knowing his sister was just 32-years old.