When My Twin Sister Was Diagnosed with Leptomeningeal Disease, I Dropped Everything to Help Her

As told to Jacquelyne FroeberMy sister Briana is the yin to my yang. As fraternal twins, you’d think that we’d want some space after sharing a uterus for nine months, but we were basically inseparable from birth. Briana and I went to the same schools, shared the same friends, played the same sports and got our first jobs together at Braum’s Ice Cream & Dairy Store. We even had our own language. After college, Briana and I got real jobs and we lived about 20 minutes from each other in Oklahoma. We always made time to see each other. At the very least we’d meet at the gym after work during t