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Most of what we cover here is overly critical about sports issues that in the grand scheme of things aren't very important at all. That said, I thought I'd start this week out right on a positive note about something very important. Last August, Jon Lester's rookie season was cut short when he was diagnosed with cancer. Fortunately, for the 22-year-old it was a treatable form of lymphoma.
11-months later he's recovered and in good health, ready to take the mound in a big game against Cleveland at Jacob's Field.My mother graduated from Cambridge City Nursing Hospital in the 1930s and she never threw away her college textbooks. In 1993, I looked up the word "leukemia" in one of her medical dictionaries and the definition began with "a fatal disease . . . " There was no allowance for hope. It was a fact of those times, and that is why people of a certain age recoil in fear and dissolve into tears at any mention of a cancer diagnosis. But it's different in 2007. Today, doctors are able to cure up to 85 percent of children diagnosed with leukemia.
Here's to you, Lester. I'll be rooting for the Red Sox tonight.
Source: (Boston Globe)
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