Cody Stahmer told his mother to come pick him up as soon as possible.
Nichole Stahmer was in the car driving her younger son, Austin Stahmer, home from the hospital where he’d just been declared cancer-free.
Something in Cody’s voice told Nichole this was urgent. And when she arrived at Massachusetts Maritime Academy, she found out her older son had already scheduled surgery. He’d felt a lump in his testicle one day in the shower and drove to a distant hospital to get tests to keep it to himself after several meetings with an on-campus doctor. Stahmer’s football season had ended and he’d finished his finals.