SWANSEA — Brayden Cabral is not backing down in this fight. In his room at Boston Children's Hospital, Brayden is being Brayden.

 

“He’s doing great!,” his mother, Kelly Rose DiGiammo, wrote in a Monday morning Facebook post. “His treatment is going just as planned by his team. He is feeling fine, eating, sleeping, kicking my a-- in chess, brotherly fighting with Chace, and testing [father] Kyle Cabral’s patience with Legos.”

 

Cabral, 13, a seventh grader at the Joseph Case Junior High School, has been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. A sports lover, Cabral in December and then through January had felt sluggish, downright lousy at times. The usually speedy youngster became last across the finish line. He was diagnosed with and treated for influenza A, but that ultimately did not prove to be the real villain.

 

Brayden plays in the Swansea Little League, which last year held “A Day at Fenway Park,” with 200 tickets sold. There will be a repeat this season, on April 18, with an appropriate tweak. It will be, the league posted on Facebook, “A Day at Fenway for Bray.” Swansea Youth Basketball and Somerset Youth Flag Football League are joining in the special event. Brayden plays in both of those leagues, too.

 

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