Michigan Golf Journal November 2020

Michigan Golf Journal Brother-Sister Act grind of hockey and giving of 100 percent. I think that’s really helped me.” She added that playing goalie in her teen years developed balance, and the shifting back and forth practiced the natural motion for golf of posting from one side of your body to the next and turning her hips. Back at the Hospital: Brett White was hospitalized for one week that August of ‘17, then once the virus he had (viral encephalitis secondary to Epstein Barr Virus infection with complications of ataxia) was being treated and his brain swelling subsided, he was transferred for rehabilitation at Mary Free Bed in Grand Rapids. “All my limbs moved, but once I got up to walk, it was like all new to me,” Brett said. “I was learning how to walk again like a toddler. I had to re-learn how my arms were supposed to move. Nothing was natural. If I closed my eyes, I’d fall over.” When the time came for Sarah to head back to her junior season at Texas State, Brett was still in the hospital. “Brett wouldn’t have wanted me to (stay in Grand Rapids) and put golf on hold,” she said. “He said, ‘go back to school, I’ll be fine.’ But it was scary. The doctors kind of figured it out by then but you never know what might happen again.” After two weeks at Mary Free Bed the therapists agreed going to the golf course would be good for Brett’s rehabilitation, too. I was learning how to walk again like a toddler. I had to re-learn how my arms were supposed to move. Nothing was natural. If I closed my eyes, I’d fall over.”