Name: Texas guard Andrew Jones opens up about his battle with leukemia | Longhorn Network
Uploaded: 2020-12-06T18:45:26.000Z
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One, what I waas and what I was going to be and losing.

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It feels like it's been stripped away from you, and you're trying so hard to get back to where you were.

It's been a down day here at the University of Texas and for this Texas Longhorns team.

Last night, the team found out that sophomore shooting guard Andrew Jones, who's been diagnosed with leukemia, I got the notices like early in the morning.

I remember I tried to practice the day before and I just couldn't do it, and I was waiting for my results to get back, and I felt like I was gonna pass out.

My parents weren't here, and we're trying to decide which hospital to go to.

I didn't believe what I was being told, and I cried.

Anderson in Houston, but cancer treatment would have to wait.

When Andrew came here, he was in very bad shape.

He had fluid on his heart, he had severe lung infection and he was diagnosed with acute leukemia, which we know if it's not treated appropriately on the oil, it can be associated with the highlight of that.

I couldn't breathe from the right side of my lungs.

It was filled with fluid, so I was operating on one loan for a long time.

They went on for two months when I was at Indiana's, and they drained two liters of fluid from my lungs just for me to be able to breathe on my own again.

That was the first time I could take a deep breath without tubes in my mouth.

Cool news of Andrew's diagnosis went public and support poured in from across the nation Way got worries with you.

You know that people will be praying for you every day.

We're all fighting with you each and every day.

I mean, this is who we are together as a unit.

The first time I've seen the story, e cried.

I told my mom to turn it off because it was just I seen what I was doing.

Then I'll look down like I'm in the hospital, but I can't even stand up by myself.

I had Thio squat had to get up out of my seat by myself.

I had to put my shoes on and had to do like normal things by myself, and I could not do it.

I couldn't put my feet up and put my socks on.

I couldn't get up and down in my seat without just flopping on the ground.

And I couldn't walk from my hospital room to 10 ft without being exhausted.

The person who motivated Andrew through those hard days was his father, David Jones.

In 2007, David was paralyzed from the waist down in a car accident, used his own experience to push his son to get better.

He didn't want me Thio get certain ways like he was because he wishes he could do things on his own.

Candy This, like, boy, Do it on your own.

E had a little complication that set me back to ICU for a few weeks.

And I wasn't really doing what I was supposed to be doing.

Sitting up for most of the day is not laying down.

And all I wanted to do was lay down and he was like, Man, this is right now his life or death.

Either You wanna sit up in the chair and do what you're told and be active or things won't get better.

And that kind of hit me his blood drawn before I go to see my doctor.

It's a check to make sure everything is way e.

I'm being strong way muscles from my side.

I don't think you're ready for like very professional competitions.

But if you wanna play with your team in these two weeks E didn't know if I was gonna make it.

And he was always telling me I will kill you.

And he was telling me that I was like, Man, I don't know, man.

I can't do nothing on my own to go through what He went to be able to be a nice you for several days and weeks to come to the floor and barely can walk because off all the muscles he lost to be an auction all the time.

I think A lot off patient, including myself.

His money information Every day Andrew continued chemotherapy treatments through August and made sure he could work on his game at the same time.

They got me a little fanny pack, so I was able to be active and play basketball.

Without that, I don't know what I have been thinking about.

I probably have been a bad state of mind, but has it always been a stress relief for me?

Basketball has been one thing that brought my parents and my family together, and I didn't wanna lose it.

You made them put the pic line in your left arm.

Because in my right arm is my shooting on.

And I can protect the ball better with my left hand.

So I was like, When I shoot the ball, I'm able toe actually get a fluent shot in without it hurting and pulling.

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