1 Min Read “I felt like it was going to be my big year.” And it was, until a July 2018 diagnosis of melanoma put everything in Jeopardy....
7 Min Read After the game he looked at it again and told me that an ACL tear was on the table, I had an awful feeling that it was true
12 Min Read We’ll hope for the best, but if things don’t improve soon, you may be done with hockey…
5 Min Read After living with him for a year, he kicked me out of his house, and for the first time in my life, I was homeless.
6 Min Read “In the fall I weighed almost 200 pounds; in January, I dropped to 160 pounds, and finally went to the doctor.”
4 Min Read “Within seconds, I collapsed onto the floor. I looked up at my mom and she could see the whole left side of my face had dropped”
5 Min Read “One cut. One play… And my career was put on hold.”
7 Min Read “I am the first NCAA Division I basketball player to have an autism diagnosis”
8 Min Read “At the very moment the doctor told me the extent of my injury, I sunk to the lowest place I had ever been.”
8 Min Read “I’m eighteen years old and in great shape, there’s no way I have cancer.”
6 Min Read “I wanted to swim in college. In the recruiting world, there is no box to check saying, “I’m deaf.”
6 Min Read “I’d be lying if I said it was easy. In fact, this has been the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my entire life.”
7 Min Read “Walking into the training room, I had an unshakeable feeling that my career was over.”
3 Min Read “I struggled through sharp pain as it took me at least five minutes to simply put on socks.”
7 Min Read “But, when you first hear that pop, or the words from your doctor, it feels like life is over.”
3 Min Read “Never let success go to your head, never let failure go to your heart.”
7 Min Read “It’s the place where it seems like nothing bad can ever happen. Until it does.”
3 Min Read “Tears blurred my vision, my heart was beating a mile a minute, and I do not remember anything that was happening.”
1 Min Read Jason’s love for basketball grew throughout his youth, leading him to serve as the student manager for his beloved Greece Athena High School. But one night in 2006, everything changed.
2 Min Read “I started having really severe symptoms which made me lose twenty pounds in three weeks… almost to the point of hospitalization.”
7 Min Read “Lying on the ground in a pool of blood… all I could think was ‘not again not again'”
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