Danielle Jones, the wife of Old Dominion basketball coach Jeff Jones, tried to turn a negative into a positive Wednesday when her husband announced that his prostate cancer had returned three years after it was surgically treated (Click here for story).
She kicked off a fundraising effort that afternoon to benefit the American Cancer Society’s Hope Lodge, which provides a free place for patients to stay when they travel for treatments.
Little did she know just how positive her fundraising campaign would be. She donated $13,280, the amount Jones paid for a scan his insurance declined to pay for, and set a goal of $25,000.