Teen Who ‘Could Barely Walk’ Preps for Marathon
Imagine being 13 years old, in eighth grade, and every step you took brought intense pain. That was Nathan Bojan’s life. A trip to an orthopedist and the Bojans had an answer: Nathan had a condition called Tarsal Coalition—the abnormal connection of two bones in the foot. Where people normally have tissue between bone, Nathan had none. Each step was agony.