By Lee Pace
Several times a week, Tar Heel receiver Tylee Craft and FCA Team Chaplain Mitch Mason exchange text messages and phone calls. They compare notes on hospitals, treatments, medicines, pain and worry. They try as they might to keep from falling into the abyss of why me?—why has Mason been on a two-year fight against a rare neurological disease known as Idiopathic Small Fiber Neuropathy, why has Craft at 20 years of age contracted a rare form of lung cancer?
Mason might send a passage of scripture. He might tell Craft that his personal goal is to live long enough to meet his grandchildren and that Craft's should be to score a game-winning touchdown.