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    How walking together helped 2 cancer patients heal: ‘You think you’re alone, and you’re just not’

    CHICAGO -- The first time Eric McElroy knocked on Zach Jenkins’ door, Jenkins was not in the mood to chat. At age 25, he had recently been diagnosed with leukemia. While he was still absorbing this, he was on the 15th floor of a Northwestern Memorial Hospital building, preparing to undergo chemotherapy. McElroy, then 38, was walking the halls with his wife, Jami. Seeing them, Jenkins’ ...
    by Alison Bowen, Chicago Tribune Sep 15, 2022 5 minutes
    Yasmin Abaza examina a Zach Jenkins en el Hospital Northwestern Memorial en Chicago el 26 de agosto de 2022..

    CHICAGO -- The first time Eric McElroy knocked on Zach Jenkins’ door, Jenkins was not in the mood to chat.

    At age 25, he had recently been diagnosed with leukemia. While he was still absorbing this, he was on the 15th floor of a Northwestern Memorial Hospital building, preparing to undergo chemotherapy.

    McElroy, then 38, was walking the halls with his wife, Jami. Seeing them, Jenkins’ girlfriend, Caileen Calvert, asked him to check in and ask Jenkins to get out of his room. Perhaps they could walk together.

    He did knock on the door, and they did walk together, despite Jenkins’ hesitation. Eventually, those door knocks became buoys throughout each of their cancer journeys.

    At the moment they met, Jenkins was still reeling from his diagnosis, but McElroy

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