When we talked to Mark last night we could see the smiles even without "phonovision". The patients have had a good week with lots of high profile visitors thanks to the Super Bowl being held in Tampa on Sunday. Franco Harris, Pete Shaw, Lydell Mitchell all visited one day and yesterday, Mike Ditka came back to see the guys and brought along Rocky Bleier. One of the patients, Kevin, is a die-hard Steeler fan and Coach Ditka remembered that from his last visit a couple of months ago. Mark was priviledged to try on Bleier's four Super Bowl rings. All at once I might add!
He also had a chat with David Haugh, one of the sports columnists from the Chicago Tribune. One of Rich's colleagues in Chicago called this morning when he read Mark's name in the column. It's a nice story about what took place yesterday at the Fisher House and I have added the link below.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/chi-30-haugh-super-bowljan30,0,5360504.column
Tomorrow the patients have been invited to a Super Bowl breakfast at the University of South Florida which is across the street from the hospital. Mark wasn't sure what it entailed only that they had to be ready to go by 6:30 a.m, but we will keep you all posted when we talk to him tomorrow.
Friday, January 30, 2009
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The "Tribune" story was nice, however he left out the part when I turned to Mr. Greir and said, "figures you'd give the rings to the guy who can't run away." All he could do was laugh, and say "that attitude is going to get you far in this process." I had to confirm. If you can't laugh at youself, who can you laugh at??
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