In September 2023, just two months after his mother fought and won a battle against breast cancer, Sam Lane began to get sick. Sam underwent several rounds of testing, and the now 14-year-old finally received a diagnosis: a rare brain and spine cancer. "They said 'cancer,' and before I started crying, I said, 'Dang it, I was going to guess that, but I didn't want it to be that bad,'" Sam said. But at his lowest point, intubated and unable to walk, a nurse offered Sam a bright spot: She said she