FORT MYERS, Fla. -- John Farrell's rebirth might have started Oct. 22, 2015 -- the day he learned his Stage 1 lymphoma was in remission.
But cancer is an insidious disease that can come roaring back at any time, so it's been one day at a time for the Boston Red Sox manager, with what he says is a clearer view of "some of the smaller things of life" and a "heightened awareness" of his surroundings.
Thursday was another day -- his first meeting with the media in his first spring training since he got the news that he had Burkitt, a non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and had to endure a concentrated eight-week treatment plan of seven-to-10-hour days of being hooked up to IV tubes dispensing seven different medicines at the Center for Lymphoma at Massachusetts General Hospital, and had to get acquainted with things like a Positron Emission Tomography scan.