One thing I did was stop thinking so much. I'm just going out there and swinging the bat.

I almost didn't come back [for my senior year]. But I realized I don't hate the game of softball.

I got my heart broken, in softball terms. It just got to the point where it wasn't fun anymore. I really struggled with playing time the past three years.

I was thinking about how the kids in New Orleans wouldn't have a good holiday. They'd lost everything. I wanted to make them feel like someone cared about them.

I get up about four times a night and go back to sleep, or not. Then I swill tea around 8 a.m. I answer e-mail, while I stall thinking about whatever scares me.

Google is one of the most incredible breakthroughs that we have today. Yes, it can scare a lot of patients, thinking we're all dying because we look up something on Google. But there's also a lot of anecdotal information from parents, firsthand accounts of what they did for their own child.