brendan adams

brendan adams

Brendan Adams's mother did not want to play high school football. He was afraid maybe injured. Wait a minute. Brendan nearly 7-foot-5-cm high - the highest teen on the planet according to the Guinness Book of World Records. And she is worried about being affected?

The sad irony is it took a lot of work to get Brendan on the gridiron. His mother's concerns are more than justified. The 14-year-old eighth-grader from Ellensburg, Wash., about 100 miles east of Seattle, has health problems as formidable as his height. His body is full of tumors. His joints are enlarged. And doctors recently discovered an arrhythmia in his heart.Getting those assurances was not easy, KXLY reported. Brendan's blood counts were abnormal. Doctors worried a broken bone would result in him bleeding to death. Then, surgery on his spleen got his blood counts back to normal.

Arthritis, another consequence of its height, it is difficult for him to run and jump. "There is not much he can do," his coach, Kevin Wetzel told the television station. "If you want to take action, you must be creative