USA Today Profiles Bradlee's Son

Until he was 16, Quinn Bradlee practically lived in the hospital.

Growing up, his ailments included a hole in his heart, epilepsy, dyslexia and a weak immune system that left him chronically sick.

“He kept having all these terrible things wrong with him,” says his mother, Sally Quinn, a Washington Post writer. “You’d turn around one day, and whammo — it was something else. … You never knew where the next bomb was going to go off.