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Chemotherapy Continues for Dodger Draft Pick
2005-08-26 09:24
An update on Jayson Whitehouse, who was diagnosed with Burkitt's Lymphoma shortly after being drafted by the Dodgers in June, from John Quinn of Foster's Daily Democrat of Dover: Friends of Jayson Whitehouse, a local baseball player who was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers and diagnosed with cancer this summer, have organized a 75-mile fund-raising Poker Ride/Fun Run for him in September. ... "Right now, things are going well," said Don Dinwoodie, who coached baseball at Farmington High School until 2004 and watched Whitehouse play baseball in town for years before. ... Dimwoodie said Whitehouse started his third round of weeklong chemotherapy treatments on Aug. 22 at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Whitehouse will return home to recover from the sessions, as he has previously, he said. ... Sue Asselin, who organized the event with Dinwoodie, said 100 percent of the proceeds from the fund-raiser will go to help Whitehouse pay for treatments, medication and other expenses not covered by insurance. "He's the next Lance Armstrong," Asselin said. Whitehouse plans to go back to college in the spring and will return to playing baseball, she added. ...
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