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Minium: ODU Basketball Team Adds a New Member: 10-year-old Va. Beach resident Brandon Nowlan

By Harry Minium

When you're ten years old, you shouldn't have to worry about falling down for fear you might cut yourself. You shouldn't have to be concerned about every bruise, knowing you could have internal bleeding.

You shouldn't have to receive an infusion every week or frequently go to the Emergency Room.

Instead, you should be out playing with your friends, running and jumping, roughhousing or playing dodge ball.

But that's not the life 10-year-old Brandon Nowlan lives. Since the day he was born, he's been poked and prodded by doctors and nurses far too many times to count.