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Originally Posted by Hrycaj
Best wishes to Carlos Carrasco and his fight right now.
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Everyone here suspected that when it was announced that he had a "blood disorder," but nobody wanted to say it out loud because we all were praying that it would be something else.
They are saying that it was caught an an early enough stage that the prognosis is good. He is even talking about coming back to pitch this season.
That disease beginning with the letter "c" has touched my family more than once in the last 9 years, and even thinking about it paralyzes me with fear. I know what it's like to wake up with a panic attack...
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