In 2015, it didn’t look like Landon Skaggs’ final year of college baseball was meant to be. In fact, Skaggs was in a much deeper predicament than that. What had started out as a mysterious bout of weakness and fatigue eventually revealed itself to be much more sinister. An infection morphed into an autoimmune disorder that was soon attacking his leg before moving up to his kidneys. His body was fighting itself and the odds were against him.
After a sophomore season that saw him hit .284 from the plate, Skaggs looked set to step up and continue his growth for the 2015-16 season. But that’s when things started to go wrong. “I slowly started to feel tired and weak,” he said, describing his first realizations that something was wrong. ”I couldn’t catch my breath, and anything would make me tired. I would sleep for hours.”
After being diagnosed as anemic and given rest for two months, he returned in the spring for the start of the season and played around 20 games before regressing to the same exhaustion. Upon his next visit to the hospital, Skaggs learned that things were more serious than previously believed. Tests revealed that his hemoglobin count, a measure of how effectively blood carries oxygen, was at a dangerously low level. Continue reading
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