“People really do care,” Leroy High School softball coach Tabitha Baggett said. “They really will have your back. In this small place, if they say, ‘Let me know what I can do to help,’ they really mean that. It’s been so special to me and my family.”
Baggett underwent chemotherapy in Mobile, but she also visited Houston’s famed MD Anderson Cancer Center. Calling her type of the disease a “unicorn of breast cancer,” she wanted to make sure her treatment approach covered all the bases. The disease had spread to her liver, but after her therapy, she said it’s not there any more.
“Those three, through all this, have helped me and I needed help. They supported me when I needed more time off through this than I had. They supported me though some dark times,” Baggett said. “It’s important to build relationships with people. Relationships that mean something. When something like this happens, you realize we all do mean something to each other. They know I’d do the same for them.
Weaver is headed to Bishop State Community College, Newell to the University of Mobile and Waddill will play at Coastal Alabama Community College in Monroeville. “We have former players who come back and help. They will come back and pitch to us – we’ve had a couple do that for the regionals, and they are in their 20s doing things to help us prepare. Whenever the community and the school expect you to do well and be successful – our football team won 1A state this year – it matters to them, then it matters to the players. They take it to heart and want to please the community and school, too.
“They told me they wanted to get pink uniforms, pink tops and pink-pinstriped pants,” she said of the work clothes they wanted in the color that signifies breast cancer awareness. “I tend to keep to myself, so I told them, ‘Y’all don’t have to do that for me.’ They were like, ‘No. We are.’ I just told them to just make them look good. They are pretty sweet uniforms.”
As if she needed a reminder of the battle she has fought against cancer, Baggett continues the routine of a clinic visit every 21 days, now to receive antibodies treatments instead of chemo.
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