Ahead of Thursday’s game, manager John Schneider provided an encouraging update on Bichette’s status, per MLB.com’s Keegan ...

Born in Wilson, Bissette came to Wilmington as a teenager in the 1930s, later graduating from New Hanover High School. For 50 years, Bissette worked as a banker with the old Peoples Savings and ...

Bissette, 22, betrays nary a physical indicator of an ordeal that featured steroid treatments, chemotherapy and three surgeries (totaling roughly 20 hours) in a four-day span in August 2016.

Bissette noted that the statewide system has 225,000 students, a $9.5 billion budget and is the state's largest employer, with 60,000 employees.

Bissette, 25, who was set to begin an accelerated nursing program at Duke University in January, instead found herself in intensive care for more than four months. “It’s like, one in a billion ...