During a long phone conversation with Dametrius "Meechie" Walker in August as he had detailed his osteoscarcoma diagnosed in 2020 that eventually forced doctors to amputate his left leg, the cancer that had spread to his lungs and the tumor growing on his jaw, his voice sounded strong.
Despite every possible way his body was defying him, this 18-year-old kid, who, a couple of years ago, was a tight end at Muskegon High and receiving Division I football scholarship offers and who had been told by doctors in January he wouldn't live beyond six months, was hopeful that he would thrive and take care of his toddler son, Kymere.
"People tell me I have a heart of a lion," Meechie told me during that conversation, "and that if they just had a little bit of what I have, they would be unstoppable."
