More meaningful day thanks to 'gift'
M's executive Benny Looper battles multiple myeloma.
He got one. Head over to the link for the whole story.
Benny Looper had no idea he was sick.
He had no clue that a disease -- multiple myeloma -- was crawling through his bone marrow toward an outcome of pain, injury and possibly death if it wasn't discovered and treated.
All Looper knew is that he felt great and even though he was moving toward his upper 50s, he saw no need to take a physical exam.
"We're men. We're macho," said Looper, 59, the Seattle Mariners' vice president for player personnel "I never took a physical."
Then there was a shocking wakeup call in June, 2005.
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The following February, Looper got one himself at the Mariners' spring training camp. It may have saved his life.
When blood test results came back, team doctor Mitch Storey noticed something that didn't look right. Looper's protein level was high.
They re-checked his blood again in August, and again in September, and the protein level remained high. Looper, who lives in Ada, Okla., in the offseason, saw an oncologist in nearby Norman, Okla., for more tests. Then he got another opinion at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.
Every test and every opinion confirmed that he was afflicted with the early stages of multiple myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells in the blood. He needed a stem cell transplant.
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