During his own cancer treatments, the Orioles' Trey Mancini vowed to help others who were in the same position. One of those people is Mike Tilley, a Stage 4 cancer patient. danconnolly2016 reports:
first baseman/designated hitter who, two weeks before, had finished second in the 2021 MLB Home Run Derby contest.fan. But his twin brother loves the Orioles. They’ve gone to a ton of games together at Camden Yards over the years.It was a year ago Friday — three days after Mancini’s return from colon cancer surgery was widely celebrated during the nationally televised Home Run Derby — that Tilley was diagnosed with the same type of cancer.
On July 15, 2021, Ryan Tilley was stunned. What could he possibly say to or do for his twin? He didn’t know anyone who had been diagnosed with colon cancer. There was no family history of it. No friends had ever had it. from his colon. He had to pause his successful baseball career in his prime to undergo 12 chemotherapy treatments that year. In September, he received a clean slate of scans and was proclaimed cancer-free.
“I just had a feeling when I heard his story,” Mancini said of Tilley. “I just felt like I should call rather than send a text and say, ‘I hope you’re doing well.’ I thought I’d call and kind of prepare him for what chemo is like, what this surgery is like and everything like that. I felt like that was just something I should do.”Trey Mancini, and that Ryan had set it up and everything was legit, Tilley and Mancini arranged for a time when they could chat.
In March 2021, he began having pains on the left side of his abdomen. With his wedding approaching in June, Tilley needed the situation resolved, so he went to the doctor for an exam. He was told it was diet-related and was given heartburn medication. Ten days before their wedding, Sarah and Mike went to an emergency room in Philadelphia, near where they were living at the time. The couple was there all night. And when they left the next morning, they thought they had answers. It appeared Mike had Crohn’s disease, a type of inflammatory bowel condition.
The bad news was he had to keep his mind calm during the honeymoon while continuing a strict diet in case he had Crohn’s. His honeymoon food options were limited because everything’s fried in Georgia. He also had to stay away from alcohol, so there’d be no cocktails with dinner. Thanks to Mancini, the Tilleys had an idea about what the road ahead would look like. But another curve was thrown their way.One thing he’s repeated multiple times in the last two years is how fortunate he was to be a professional athlete at the beginning of his cancer discovery. Disconcerting bloodwork results from a routine physical led the Orioles’ head athletic trainer to order more tests, which led to the colonoscopy, an uncommon procedure for someone in their 20s.
They took that information to the oncologist, who ordered a new CT scan, which showed that Tilley’s liver was, in his words “essentially just covered in tumors.” It also showed spots on his lungs that are currently being monitored but may not be cancer.Tilley is now midway through a radiation procedure on his liver tumors and is also receiving chemotherapy every two weeks.
“It gives him a distraction, for sure. And it gives him somebody else to root for besides himself. I think so much of this is Mike-focused. ‘Fight Like Mike.’ Everybody is like, ‘How are you doing, Mike?’” Sarah Tilley said. “So, I think when it comes to baseball, it’s about everyone on the field; it’s not about anyone in the stands.”
“I caught shit from every Yankees fan, my nurses included,” Tilley said. “So, I’m a Trey fan first, Yankees fan second.” A further probe reveals he’s kept a running dialogue with about 10 to 15 people who are currently dealing with cancer. He didn’t know any of them previously, but was introduced through baseball or personal connections. There are others he’s reached out to at least once to provide encouragement.
to a contender by the Aug. 2 trade deadline. Mancini, though, has no plans of skipping out on Tilley.There is a part of Tilley that dreams of Mancini being a Yankee — or at least rejoining former Orioles manager Buck Showalter with the. That would give Tilley a reason to go to Citi Field when he’s getting another chemo treatment in New York.
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