4-year-old leukemia survivor throwing out first pitch at the Hot Rods

BOWLING GREEN, Ky.-“That is something that no parent should ever have to hear is ‘your child has cancer’,” said Kelsie Cooksey.

At only 18 months old, Weston Cooksey was diagnosed with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. 

“That is a cancer in the bone marrow of those b-cells. He had a rash and we took him to the doctor and some of his blood counts were not what they should be,” said his mother Kelsie. 

“I didn’t have no hair,” said Weston. 

After around 850 days of treatment at Norton Children’s Hospital, Weston is now cancer free.

He celebrates life everyday 

“Weston loves to make people laugh and I think that’s what kept us all going through this journey because even though Weston didn’t feel good or was sick, he kept going,” said Kelsie. 

Now fully recovered, his favorite thing to do is play baseball

“We hit the ball and catch it, if it went to us we would catch it,” said Weston. 

And this weekend, his big baseball dreams will come true.

“I get to throw out the first pitch,” said Weston. 

He’s throwing out the first pitch at the Hot Rods game Saturday to recognize September as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. 

“He also would like to play the rest of the game so he was like do you think they’ll let me bat too?” laughed Kelsie. 

“Go Hot Rods,” said Weston.