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Originally Posted by dar512
Amen to that.
I knew a guy in Bellevue Washington who was a football player in high school. Popular. Says he dated one of the Wilson sisters (Heart). I don't remember which one. He was quite circumstantial, so it might be true. He did have a number of newspaper clippings to attest to his football ability.
Then a neck & head football injury caused permanent mental and physical disabilities. I met him because he was in a special needs group in the church we went to.
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The man who could not speak had worked for an insurance company - of all things - and had a college degree. He was quite intelligent and we had an interesting conversation as we waited for the doors to open. He wrote that he had his first heart attack at 37 and this was followed by two more and massive heart by-pass surgeries. His ill health caused him to lose his job and the medical bills ran through his savings because he no longer had his company's health insurance once his COBRA ran out. He was just starting to get back on his feet when he was diagnosed with cancer of the larnyx.
Despite it all, he has retained a sense of humor, and sribbled down all sorts of jokes that had the rest of us laughing when I read them aloud to everyone. I am SO greatful that I have a condition which has proved amenable to treatment and I have been able to start back to work part time with an eye to one day being fully employed again.
Many others are not so fortunate as me. There but for the grace of God...