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Red Sox are going to hold a press conference today to update his condition. For those that don't know, he had brain surgery in march to remove a piece of the brain stem. I honestly thought the man was going to be a vegetable after some pics of him at a game, but he is a man I want to root for. there is an excellent Providence Journal article below.
[size=+2][h2]After brain surgery, Ryan Westmoreland’s goal is to make it with the Red Sox.[/h2][/size][size=-1][h5]01:00 AM EDT on Wednesday, June 23, 2010[/h5][/size][size=-1]By DANIEL BARBARISI
Journal Sports Writer[/size]
Ryan Westmoreland played catch the other day. When he was the top prospect in the Red Sox system, before his brain surgery, playing catch was part of the everyday routine. Now, the 20-year-old labors to do things that once came naturally, and a simple game of catch is no longer so simple.
He was in the yard of his parents’ Portsmouth home, tossing the ball with his girlfriend, Charlene Colameta, and his childhood friend, Dan Dugan. The first time Dugan saw his friend try to throw a ball post-surgery, only a month had passed since the operation, and Westmoreland’s brain couldn’t yet send the right signals to his body. The ball traveled only three feet or so.
Now it has been three months since the surgery that changed his life, and Westmoreland has made great strides in rehab. His best friends see flashes of his old athleticism peek out from time to time. But they weren’t prepared for what they saw that afternoon.
Westmoreland and Colameta were tossing the ball at short distances. “[Ryan] said, ‘Alright, I’m just going to throw it,’
[size=+2][h2]After brain surgery, Ryan Westmoreland’s goal is to make it with the Red Sox.[/h2][/size][size=-1][h5]01:00 AM EDT on Wednesday, June 23, 2010[/h5][/size][size=-1]By DANIEL BARBARISI
Journal Sports Writer[/size]
Ryan Westmoreland played catch the other day. When he was the top prospect in the Red Sox system, before his brain surgery, playing catch was part of the everyday routine. Now, the 20-year-old labors to do things that once came naturally, and a simple game of catch is no longer so simple.
He was in the yard of his parents’ Portsmouth home, tossing the ball with his girlfriend, Charlene Colameta, and his childhood friend, Dan Dugan. The first time Dugan saw his friend try to throw a ball post-surgery, only a month had passed since the operation, and Westmoreland’s brain couldn’t yet send the right signals to his body. The ball traveled only three feet or so.
Now it has been three months since the surgery that changed his life, and Westmoreland has made great strides in rehab. His best friends see flashes of his old athleticism peek out from time to time. But they weren’t prepared for what they saw that afternoon.
Westmoreland and Colameta were tossing the ball at short distances. “[Ryan] said, ‘Alright, I’m just going to throw it,’
