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per the Daily:
It was a Friday afternoon in October and Todd Oakes had no sense anything was wrong.
He had trudged around a game farm hunting pheasants with two of his sons, TJ and Tanner, the day before. That Friday, the longtime Minnesota baseball pitching coach was showing a recruit and his parents around the team’s facilities.
Then his doctor called. He needed to go to the hospital.
In some routine blood tests taken that morning, his doctor found Oakes’ acute myeloid leukemia, a blood and bone marrow cancer that he fought into remission more than two years earlier, had returned.
Oakes believed his fight might have been over after clearing the two-year mark of remission. His doctor thought so, too.
“‘This isn’t supposed to happen,’” Oakes recalled his doctor telling him with tears in her eyes.
Oakes suddenly was forced to face a doubleheader he didn’t see coming, but he again emerged victorious.
Now in remission for the second time, Oakes is focused on giving back to help fight the disease while ramping up his activities with Minnesota baseball.
The surgical mask he carries remains one of the few outside reminders of his battle, covering a visage not unlike an old baseball glove: worn but tough.
“If there’s one person that could get through it, I think it’s him,” his son Tyler Oakes said.
http://www.mndaily.com/sports/baseball/2015/04/28/winning-second-battle
Go Gophers!!
It was a Friday afternoon in October and Todd Oakes had no sense anything was wrong.
He had trudged around a game farm hunting pheasants with two of his sons, TJ and Tanner, the day before. That Friday, the longtime Minnesota baseball pitching coach was showing a recruit and his parents around the team’s facilities.
Then his doctor called. He needed to go to the hospital.
In some routine blood tests taken that morning, his doctor found Oakes’ acute myeloid leukemia, a blood and bone marrow cancer that he fought into remission more than two years earlier, had returned.
Oakes believed his fight might have been over after clearing the two-year mark of remission. His doctor thought so, too.
“‘This isn’t supposed to happen,’” Oakes recalled his doctor telling him with tears in her eyes.
Oakes suddenly was forced to face a doubleheader he didn’t see coming, but he again emerged victorious.
Now in remission for the second time, Oakes is focused on giving back to help fight the disease while ramping up his activities with Minnesota baseball.
The surgical mask he carries remains one of the few outside reminders of his battle, covering a visage not unlike an old baseball glove: worn but tough.
“If there’s one person that could get through it, I think it’s him,” his son Tyler Oakes said.
http://www.mndaily.com/sports/baseball/2015/04/28/winning-second-battle
Go Gophers!!