5,4,3,2,1 organizer pgs. 122-160

5 comments

• In November of '91 Bertica and Mike Lowell went on their first date.
  
• Mike Lowell seemed to be really good at giving advice because when his teammate Jon Lester got sick he gave him good advice to focus on himself and not worry about what people are doing around him.
  
• He is still writing in his journal but he isn't doing it as much as he would have liked to.
  
• Mike Lowell's grandmother passed away August 1, 1995 from lymphoma.
  
• After four months of being married in 1999 Mike Lowell found out he had cancer.
  

4 Questions

• Is it really hard for baseball players to have an at home life because they seem to be on the road or away so much.
  
• Is it really hard for players to find time for themselves never mind a family or friends but just for themselves?
  
• Was it really really hard for Mike Lowell's family to find out that he had cancer?
  
• If there are a lot of good players on the team and they all did extremely well that season how to they pick a MVP?
  

3 Vocabulary

• chemotherapy: use of drugs in treating disease
  
• catheter: tube put into the bladder
  
• subsequently: following
  

2 Literary

• Throughout the whole book Mike Lowell was putting in pages from his journal that he had been writing in.
  
• There were four pages full of pictures of Mike Lowell and his family.
  

1 Overview

• This told how Mike Lowell helped talk to his teammates when they found out bad news and also about when he found out that he had cancer.