[洋基] 來為Andy打打氣

[HIPOP4EVER (LET'S GO YANKEES!!!)]

節錄
BY JIM BAUMBACH
Newsday Staff Correspondent

June 18, 2006

WASHINGTON- Andy Phillips couldn't stop tearing up no matter how hard he tried.
His eyes stayed wet throughout a game in April as he questioned his priorities.

Andy Phillips無論如何嘗試，就是止不住他的淚水－每當他被問到他太太的事情。

Phillips had to be home with his sick wife, he kept thinking.
He had to hold Bethany's hand as she fought cancer.

Phillips一直想著回家照顧他生病的太太，當Bethany(他太太)在對抗癌症的時候，
他必須在一旁，握住她的雙手，緊緊的照料著她。

As Phillips boarded an April 19 evening flight bound for Tuscaloosa, Ala., to
spend a day off with his wife, he did not know when he'd be returning to the
Yankees.

Phillips在4/19休息日，飛往Tuscaloosa照顧他的太太，他不知道他何時會回到洋基。

"There's so many things on your mind," he said. "Should I be here? Should I be
home?"

他說:"有太多的事情在我腦袋盤旋"，"我應該在家照顧太太，還是回到洋基陣中呢？"


His wife, two weeks into chemotherapy to treat a rare form of cancer related to
a lost pregnancy in January, convinced him to return.

他太太，在一月的時候接受了兩個禮拜的化療，並且說服Andy回到隊上。

Phillips has traveled home on every day off since to be with his wife as she
deals with the debilitating side effects of chemo, the fourth separate form of
treatment she's had and one the doctors explained was the last resort before
surgery that would cost Bethany her fertility.

Phillips利用每個休兵日趕回家，照料她虛弱的太太。她太太已接受了四期的療程，在最
後一期時，醫生更坦言手術可能會要了Bethany的命。

Fortunately for the Phillipses, it never got to that point. They learned last
month that the chemo killed the cancer - doctors delivered the news in an
appointment on a Yankees off day, so Andy was there, too - and they're finally
returning to a sense of normalcy.

幸運的是，Bethany撐過去了。就在上個月，醫生宣布了化療殺死了癌細胞，那天是洋基
的休兵日，當然，Andy在場。他們終於恢復正常的感覺。

But right after he arrived in Tampa, his wife called with bad news.That reading
 was an aberration and they had to move to the next level of treatment.

好景不常，當Andy在坦帕灣準備出戰魔鬼魚的時候，她的妻子又傳來不好的消息--準備接
受下一等級的療程。

Bethany was given small doses of chemo through an IV, and the doctors were
encouraged that her levels were decreasing. The outlook seemed positive.
Suddenly, "her body threw a resistance against that," Phillips said.

Bethany接受了治療，醫生也說了危險的等級已經開始降低，整個情勢看起大好。
"但突然之間，Bethany的身體又產生了抗藥性的反應" Andy說著。

"It's hard to describe the emotion, and to realize how long it went on,"
Phillips said. "Every time there was optimism that it was going to get better,
but it never did."

Andy說:"這是很難去形容的一種感覺"，"每當你覺得狀況好起來了，但事實卻又不是這
麼一回事"

Every time he traveled home on an off day, he saw firsthand what the chemo
was doing to her. She slept most of the time, unable to even make it out of the
house. "You go home and sit and see this treatment eating away at your wife,"
Phillips said. "It was tough."

每當Andy休兵回到家時，他都會看著經化療摧殘後的妻子。她大部分的時間都在睡覺，
她甚至無法外出。"你回到家，看著這些化學治療，就這樣摧殘了你的妻子"Andy說，
"很令人難受"。

But it was all worth it. Bethany still gets tired, and will for several months,
but she's cancer-free, healthy and still able to have children.

但這些都是值得的，Bethany之後仍然會容易疲倦，但是她已經完全康復了，而且還有
能力生育。

As Bethany flew with Andy to New York last Tuesday for the first time this
season, she broke down in tears on the plane and told her husband, "It finally
feels like it's over and we're getting back to our normal life.

上個禮拜二Bethany和Andy一同搭機到紐約，她在飛機上哭了，並對Andy說:"感覺這一切
終於結束了，我們終於可以回歸到平常的生活了。"

And as they walked around Manhattan one early afternoon, all she kept saying
was, "This feels right. This feels normal."

有一天下午他們在曼哈頓散步，Bethany從頭到尾不斷的說:"這感覺太好了，太好了"

Tears fill Phillips' eyes as he tells the story, but unlike that day in Toronto
, these are tears of joy.

當Andy講起這段經歷的時候，眼框充滿著淚水。有別於那時候在多倫多焦慮驚慌的淚水，
這時侯的淚水，是充滿著喜悅的。

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