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My name is Connor Lenahan. I'm a freshman here at Boston University. For BU Athletics
I've kind of become the little jack-of-all-trades.
I am the official PA announcer for girls' basketball at BU, the official men's lacrosse
announcer for BU. Just whatever they need, I always say I'm here to help because I love
everything sports.
I have a condition called osteogenesis imperfecta. In layman's terms it just translates to brittle
bones. I'm more fragile than most people would anticipate.
I've broken ten major bones. I've broken each of my shins, four times combined. I've broken
each of my femurs, four times combined, my right arm, and one of my vertebrae.
I never dwell on the why. I think about what's the good to come from this? What's the best
way that I can become involved?
Over the years I started doing some writing just for fun and people started tapping me
on the shoulder and saying, "Connor, you actually are good at this."
So I start following it more and more and I'm realizing this is the closest I'm ever
gonna get to being on the court.
It's become this thing that is now become the center point of my life. I write every
single day. I watch sports all day.
You always get vibes when you meet life-long friends and Connor is just one of our best
friends on the team. He's always looking out for us.
I didn't realize that through one semester, I would become adopted by the team and know
everybody possible to families of players.
It goes without saying, my family, my friends that I've grown up with are always there with
me. But when they're not here and I'm all out on my own, there had to be somebody there.
And I owe that to everybody on BU basketball.
I always tell him all the time, "You're showing off when you're walking out the wheelchair."
He actually came to my house the other day and I said, "You wanna bring your wheelchair?"
And he said, "Nah, I don't need that thing."
And I'm complaining about having a bad day but in all retrospect, how big is my problem
compared to his? If he can get through that then I can get through any situation.
With OI, it's an incurable disease. So I'm never going to be completely rid of OI but
it can get better.
My goal is, I don't want to break anything ever again.
But if I do, the more and more this happens, the quicker I'll recover, the faster I'll
be back up and the more I'll be able to say that I am unbreakable. This is not going to
be able to beat me.