High school student strives to become part of law enforcement despite illness - WTOV Steubenville
BELMONT COUNTY, OH — The Bridgeport Bulldog community is rallying around one of it's biggest fighters. Abby Matusick knows she wants a career in law enforcement, and has already donated humblers hours of her time to police forces around the Ohio Valley, but Saturday, she was provided her own police escort to a spaghetti luncheon.
"I was stunned," Matusick said. "It just made me so excited, I'm happy to see all of them."
Clear cell chondrosarcoma is a rare variant of the slow growth condition that Matusick lives with, but it's never been a condition that slows her down. Abbey is a part of numerous response unit organizations including the Wheeling Police Department, Belmont County Sheriff's Office, and the Barton Fire Department, just to name a few.
"I feel like it's my calling," Matusick said. "I've felt like that for a very long time. I feel that law enforcement is my calling. That's why I'm here. That's why I'm so involved in it, because I love it."
Along with the spaghetti lunch, a Chinese auction and 50/50 drawing all contributed to funds to give back to Matusick. An act that for the organizers, is one Matusick is humbled about accepting.
"When you are a giver. It's hard to be a taker," Bridgeport High School counselor Vicki Falcone said. "I know the family is humbled by the love and support and because of the love and support, the community wants to hand it back to them."
For Falcone, and the rest of the Bridgeport community, they felt it was time the area gave back to Matusick.
"Abbey has been throughout her high school career and before that, she's been the first to step up and volunteer," Falcone said. "That's what this is. It's a display of what Abbey has given to the community, that they're giving back to her.
In times when others told her she can't, on this day alone, she had two interviews for criminal justice scholarships.
"I haven't let it stop me," Matusick said. "My doctors told me I wouldn't be able to have a career in law enforcement. It's still my plan. I'm going to do it because I don't have another plan. I'm going to get there one way or another."
Abbey plans on attending Waynesburg University to study in it's criminal justice program, and after that, hopes to join the Wheeling Police Department.
source: https://wtov9.com/news/local/high-school-student-strives-to-become-part-of-law-enforcement-despite-illness
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