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Tori Romstadt takes on soccer, cancer and wins By Mark Griffin Press Contributing Writer sports@presspublications.com
a ductless gland at the bottom of the neck that secretes hormones to regulate growth.
Tori Romstadt scored her first goal of the season on Monday in the first half of the Northwood girls soccer team’s 2-2 tie with rival Cardinal Stritch. “She was in the right place at the right time,” Rangers coach Monte Bandeen said. “We look for her to score. She’s a hard worker up top. She creates a lot of goals with her hustle.” The fact that Romstadt has played at all this season is nothing short of amazing. Turn the calendar back to late March. Tori noticed something wasn’t right with her neck, so she asked her mother, Amy, to take a look. “She came downstairs one day and said she had a lump on her throat,” Amy said. “She didn’t have any pain, and you couldn’t see it unless she tilted her head back. If you looked right at her, you couldn’t tell there was a lump. It looked like half an egg sticking out of her throat. I said, ‘Oh, my gosh!’ “My initial reaction was it was strep. She’s trim, athletic, not a chubby kid. She plays soccer and runs track and she’s in pristine physical health. She had no symptoms at all. No hair loss, no weight loss ...” The Romstadts, including Tori’s father, Tim, took a wait-and-see approach to see if the lump would go away. It didn’t. Tori, 15, the youngest of five children, got tested for strep throat and it came up negative, so Tori went to get an ultrasound. “They called us back and said they wanted us to see our family physician,” Amy said. “Their initial thought was that it was a vascular issue. The surgeon wanted a CT and said they wanted to send us up to the University of Michigan.” In June, Tori went to the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor for tests. Doctors found that Tori was not having any vascular issues in her neck, but they did not rule out thyroid cancer. The thyroid is
Thyroid cancer prognosis The lump turned out to be papillary carcinoma, the most common type of thyroid cancer, which accounts for approximately 80 percent of cases. It most often affects people ages 30-50. Amy informed Tori of the doctor’s cancer diagnosis on Friday, July 13. “I was OK at first,” Tori said, “and then it kind of processed through my mind it was cancer. (The news) kind of shook me up a little bit. You put a label on anything, especially the word ‘cancer,’ and it would shake anybody up. They (doctors) explained the process of how to get the cancer out. All cancer is bad, but they said if you were to have any type of cancer, this would be the cancer to have because of the process of getting it out of your body.” Dr. Andrew Rosko, an ear, nose and throat specialist, performed the surgery to remove Tori’s thyroid on Aug. 3 at Mott Children’s Hospital. “He took her entire thyroid out and she will have to be on Levothyroxin (a thyroid medication) the rest of her life,” Amy said. “Several lymph nodes were taken out on the entire right side of her neck. It’s healing up really nice. She’s got a pride about it, like it’s kind of cool.” Tori was back playing soccer within a couple weeks after her surgery. She is not required to undergo chemotherapy or radiation treatments, according to Amy.
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The Genoa Civic Theatre will present the musical comedy Nunsense II. Performances are October 5, 6, 12 and 13 at 7:30 p.m. with 2:00 p.m. matinee performances on October 7 and 14. Tickets are $12 for adults and $10 for seniors/students. For reservations call 419855-3103. Top photo are cast members, front row, Amanda Fox and Leah Reno. Back row, Brenda Clough, Lynne Hartley and Mary Lowry. Bottom photo Sister Amnesia (Fox) is introduced by Reverend Mother (Hartley). (Press photos by Ken Grosjean)
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She came to me two weeks later and said, ‘Coach, I have thyroid cancer.’
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Sen. Gardner to meet with Woodmore board By Larry Limpf News Editor news@presspublications.com State Senator Randy Gardner, R – Bowling Green, said last week he’s accepted an invitation by the Woodmore school board to discuss property tax revenues from the Nexus pipeline and he tentatively plans to attend the board’s October meeting.
“I told them I would be glad to meet with them and talk,” Gardner said. “The challenge is going to be there is not going to be any specific answer as to how much money will be available from any pipeline company and there is no definitive answer it will have on state funding. By the time this revenue would be available the next state budget would be in effect so the funding formula is likely to change. “It also depends on other factors that
happen to the district – valuations change, student population changes. One factor of state aid is the local property tax wealth of the school district. Arguably, if there is a pipeline that adds valuation to the school district, the total value of state aid could be affected. But there is no way to answer that precisely. So if someone says what’s going to happen in 2020 or 2021, once construc-
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Coach learns of cancer diagnosis Bandeen, the Rangers’ coach, knows something about cancer. He works in patient registration at Mercy Health-St. Vincent Medical Center and said he has, “seen a lot of cancer patients.” “Tori came to me in July and said she had a lump in her neck and they were trying to figure out what it was,” Bandeen
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