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Meyer was a favorite late round overager pick of mine last year, but he had a surprisingly poor sophomore season at Miami. Well, anyway, today we got our answer why. Don't read this while eating
'Absolutely freaking out!': Blue Jackets prospect Carson...
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'Absolutely freaking out!': Blue Jackets prospect Carson...
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But when summer turned to fall and fall leaned toward winter, Meyer was only feeling worse — an unrelenting lethargy, a loss of appetite, significant weight loss and a pale face that worried players and coaches, and not just on his RedHawks hockey team.
“One (opposing) coach asked some of my teammates if I had cancer,” Meyer said.
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“He looked like Edward Cullen from ‘Twilight,’ ” said Holly Meyer, Carson’s mother.
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On Feb. 27, Meyer finally got an answer. Not from a visit to a doctor’s office, but a trip to the bathroom.
“I was going to the bathroom, just like normal,” Meyer said. “And it came out.”
It was a 25-inch tapeworm — the head, the neck and all of the segments, about 50 of them. It was orange. Meyer almost fainted.
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His teammates rallied around him in much the way you would expect college boys to respond.
“They named it Teddy,” Meyer said.
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Meyer confirmed to The Athletic last week that he’s leaving Miami U. and hoping to transfer to Ohio State. He’s meeting with the Buckeyes’ coach staff this week on campus.
