Alex's first thought when he was told his cancer was back was, 'when
can I bowl again?' This guy LOVES bowling and he's good at it! Earlier
this year he bowled a 297 game - for those not nuanced in the finer
points of bowling, a perfect score is 300. He has every known bowling
apparatus or tool known to man or sold online. Do you know how hard it
is to get excited about watching professional bowling? I do! But he
watches it.
He had been planning on bowling with his grandpa
tomorrow; the first time in weeks. For someone who bowls twice a week,
that's a lifetime in dog years. Now he can't. His blood test results
today showed that he has virtually no white cells in his body - WBC
count 0.3, ANC 0,0. Its hard to get much lower. What that means is he
is neutropenic (word for the day) and can easily get an infection that
could land him in the hospital - again. I hate this; we had to let him
know that bowling tomorrow was not a good option and after a few moments
of disappointment you know what my incredible young man did? He took it
and rolled with it; he just keeps rolling with the punches, trying to
look on the bright side and looking forward to next week when he might
be able to bowl.
It's not the bowling that made my cry, it's how
wonderful Alex is; how he just keeps going and how much he doesn't
deserve this.
He's had some really great highlights in his life,
i.e., playing for the US National Bowling Team in the Special Olympics
World Games in 2015 but he's also had some tremendous lows......but he
keeps going.....so we keep going.
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