He was a high school basketball player, and you’d understand if he was devastated. But Scott says he was at peace. He trusted the care at St. Jude and used the extra attention from classmates as way to become more outgoing.
“I was certainly more of an introvert before my cancer,” he says. “But once you have a robot leg and a bald head, everybody stares at you anyway.”
Scott also decided that he’d push himself to learn to wear his prosthetic leg very well. At first, he struggled to walk without a cane. Eventually he learned how to run again. These days, he says you’d only know about his prosthetic if he’s on the basketball court wearing shorts.
Donate to St. Jude: www.stjude.org/donate
Credits Host: Joel Alsup
Recorded by: Andres Garcia and Nathan Black
Music production: Kazimir Boyle
Producer: Geoffrey Redick
Editor: Grace Korzekwa Evans
Executive Producer: Louis Graham
This podcast is a production of ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
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