Leukemia keeps coach away from team
Football season is so physically taxing on high school coaches that East Gaston defensive coordinator Bo Smith thought little of his constant exhaustion.
But as he had trouble recovering even after extended hours of sleep, he and his family began to think something might be wrong.
The Sept. 16 game against Berry Academy offered the final evidence that Smith needed to consult a doctor. As he addressed the players on the sideline that Friday night, Smith, too weak to stand, called the players toward the bench so he could sit. Further fatigued by the end of the game, he took a knee and couldn’t pull himself up from the field.
After seeing a doctor the next week, Smith and his family realized their worst fears when Smith was diagnosed with Acute Myloid Leukemia, cancer of the blood.
The 35-year-old had to put everything else on hold as he began fighting the disease through chemotherapy at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem.
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