This story is part of the My Unsung Hero series, from the Hidden Brain team. It features stories of people whose kindness left a lasting impression on someone else.
In 1996, when Samantha Hodge-Williams was 20, doctors discovered she had a large ovarian mass. She worried it was cancerous, as her grandmother had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer.
The day of her emergency surgery, performed at a medical center in Baltimore, is etched in Hodge-Williams’ memory…