Cancer took his leg. Carson Fox wouldn't let it steal his football dreams

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Carson Fox, Los Alamitos' short snapper, props his prosthetic out at an angle, plants his left heel, points toes to the sky, and leans most of his weight on his right leg. As he snaps, his right leg locks. The snaps, his coach said, are impeccable.

He bends and grips the laces of the football, entering a unique lunge the moment before he snaps the ball between his legs.’ Carson Fox walks with a prosthesis on his left leg, extending above the knee. It can’t bend and lock efficiently — a problem, since that’s how snappers generate power to hike the ball. There’s no instruction manual for this. He’s just had to mess around with a football in the backyard to figure this out.

“There’s always that one kid in the hospital bed that’s going through the same thing as you, and you’re inspiring them,” Shannon would say. He was known for beaming eyes, glinting golden hair, his full-speed-ahead attitude. He was the kid who’d drive his mom crazy, staying outside and practicing ollies on his skateboard long after the sun went down, only going to bed when his board flipped just right.

News of Carson’s plight zipped around Los Alamitos. JD was a local firefighter and Shannon a nurse, raising boys that were mainstays in local youth sports. After the amputation, he was back to lifting weights by August, between rounds of chemotherapy. Before going in for treatment, JD said, Carson would work out for three hours, demoralized he’d lost so much muscle.

And in November, he ambled into Miller Children’s without crutches, nurses cheering as he dinged a bell on the wall — signifying the end of his chemotherapy.

 

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