With cancer in the family, my SMA has been out of the spotlight

With cancer in the family, my SMA has been out of the spotlight

I’ve been putting off this column for months, I guess in the hopes that it’d become easier to write. I didn’t want to go public until I knew for sure that everything was going to be all right, hence my disappearance; my column was the only public-facing endeavor I maintained. But you can’t ignore the inevitable, and with the annual Cure SMA conference coming up next month, I figured it was time to rip off the Band-Aid. Last October, my dad was d…