My passion for finding new uses for existing drugs started long before #chasingmycure. While my mom was battling brain cancer, her doctors gave her a high dose of corticosteroids which pulled her out of a coma and allowed us to have 2 additional months with her before she passed away. Those two months were some of the most special two months of my life and it was all thanks to a drug that wasn’t made for her disease. Fast forward years later, I nearly died five times from a rare and deadly illne