WATCH: Zaching Through the Pain
Patch catches up with Zach Lederer, subject of the "Zaching" internet sensation, as he undergoes cancer treatment and continues to inspire.
Every day, Zach Lederer, 18, forces himself to do 50 pushups and lift weights in the 6-by-15 foot gym in his family's Ellicott City, MD, home. That might not seem unusual for a teenage boy, but Lederer is defying expectations for a patient undergoing radiation and chemotherapy for brain cancer. "Every time I go up in that room and lift one weight, I'm doing the impossible," Lederer said in a recent interview. In early February, a photo went viral on the Internet and Twitter with a scrappy-looking college kid sitting in a hospital bed flexing his biceps. To the casual observer, he may have just come out on top in a schoolyard fight. But for Lederer--the young man in the photo–the battle is deadly serious. At the time, Lederer was recovering…
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