Kay Yow has cancer.<\/p>\n
The worst kind. Stage 4. Metastasized. The kind that doesn’t go away.<\/p>\n
But Wednesday when Yow — in her 32nd season as N.C. State’s women’s basketball coach — walked into her office, she made it seem like any other day.<\/p>\n
She admired the three vases of fresh flowers decorating the reception area, chit-chatted with members of her staff, then went back to her office, the swishing of her nylon warm-up pants rubbing, escorting her down the hall.<\/p>\n
Yow, 64, hadn’t come from home but from another round of chemotherapy, a weekly ritual that can’t cure the cancer but can, perhaps, prolong her life.<\/p>\n
An afternoon practice session approached as Yow sat in a black leather chair in her office, holding a tissue to wipe her runny nose.<\/p>\n
“I want to live,” Yow said, pausing. “There are things I want to do.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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