LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – Last summer, FOX5 told you how the Paseo Verde Little League team was dedicating their deep Little League World Series run to Las Vegas ballplayer Colston Delk, who had been diagnosed with stage four neuroblastoma, a type of cancer in his bone marrow, earlier that year.
Since the last time FOX5 caught up with Colston in November, he’s undergone several rounds of chemotherapy, multiple surgeries, and two bone marrow transplants.
Over the weekend, Colston and his family finally got the news they’d been hoping for.
“I’m cancer free,” Colston told FOX5 days later. “I was so happy I really didn’t know what to say.”
“I was shocked,” Colston’s big sister Addison added. “I had no words.”
The home stretch has been the toughest in Colston’s battle.
“November to March was very difficult,” his mom, Samantha, recalled. “He was in the hospital most of the time.”
Addison was there when she could be for Colston.
“There was one time when he had to get intubated, so he couldn’t talk through something down his throat,” she remembered. “So he had a little white board and a marker that he would write on, and he’d always write, ‘Where’s sis? Where’s Addie? Can she come in the room?’”
Addison found other ways to be helpful, too, since she wasn’t old enough to come into the ICU when Colston had to be admitted there.
“She definitely has had to step up and be a mom sometimes,” Samantha said. “We would come home and the house would be clean. Laundry would be done.”
Samantha helped Colston keep a positive view of his battle, even when it seemed hope was fading.
“He’s a middle child, so he’s always said first is the worst — that’s his sister — and second is the best,” Samantha explained. “We did two bone marrow transplants, and the first one was horrible. He was in the ICU. He was intubated. Anything that could’ve gone wrong, went wrong. And then the second one was perfect.”
Now that Colston is on the mend, his dad, Chasen, sees a limitless future for his son, who wants to be a firefighter like him.
“The life lessons that he’s learned, even at ten years old, he’s going to take that with him the rest of his life and he’s going to be amazing at whatever he wants to do,” Chasen said proudly.
Upon hearing the great news, Colston shared his new diagnosis with friends and family, including his favorite Major League Baseball player, Logan O’Hoppe, who has checked in with Colston throughout his battle.
An incredulous O’Hoppe told Colston he’d do something for him later Saturday night, when he heard the news.
“He said he’d be thinking of me and he’d hit a home run for me,” Colston said.
Hours later, true to his word, O’Hoppe hit not just one home run — but two.
That kind of support has been crucial for Colston.
“I couldn’t have done it without my family and friends,” he said.
His friend and Little League teammate Carsynn Meyer has taken every opportunity to spend time with Colston when he’s been back home from the hospital, and has seen him grow during that time.
“Not a lot of kids get diagnosed with cancer and can’t be a normal kid,” Carsynn said. “So he just overcame that and now he is a normal kid.”
Colston is going to play baseball again in August for a club team. He won’t go back to his usual position at catcher right away, but after a few months in the infield, he’s hoping to get back behind the plate at his favorite spot.
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