FlagCityFalcon wrote:Grant, I'm sure I can find it (it's on this site somewhere), but please direct me to the MS foundation so that I can place a donation in honor of Jordan (yes, Maryellen will certainly be thought of).
I'm going to modify the template so that it shows up on every page... but until then, Tony is right, just go to www.ay-ziggy-zoomba.com and it's at the bottom of the main page.
Grant Cummings
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Sad news about Jordan. Hopefully this will raise awareness of MS, as this article says was his intention with going public, and get people to be a little more proactive concerning this disease. From the sound of a few of these posts, it sounds like it already has gotten people helping with MS.
My grandma has MS. When she doesn't have attaks she seems fine, perfectly normal. You would never know anything is wrong with her. But when she does have attacks, it's pretty much debilitating. Very sad disease indeed...so unfortunate for him, he had so much promise to go into the pros and be one fabulous hockey player.
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BGSUSynchroSk8r2006 wrote:Very sad disease indeed...so unfortunate for him, he had so much promise to go into the pros and be one fabulous hockey player.
We're all still hoping he has that NHL career ahead of him!! He still has a LOT of promise and a very bright future!!!
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Hey FF, do you think he still has a chance to go pro? For his sake, I truly, truly hope he does. It is just totally unfair for something like this to happen to him at his age (as if its fair at any age...).
On the bright side, though, he did say that he has changed his diet. My youth group leader at my church in high school was diagnosed with MS and he went on a diet that entirely cut out protein from milkfat. As I recall, that diet really helped him and he had told me that there were some people who didn't have attacks after doing so permanently. I recall him saying that theoretically the disease is actually caused by dairy proteins somehow.
Heck, I don't know. I just hope there is something we can all do to help him out. I know very few poeple that would deserve it more than Jordan.
From the halls of ivy...
It is not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work - work with us, not over us; stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it. ~Ronald Reagan
Bleeding Orange wrote:Hey FF, do you think he still has a chance to go pro? For his sake, I truly, truly hope he does. It is just totally unfair for something like this to happen to him at his age (as if its fair at any age...).
I wondered the same thing, but knowing the very little I do about this disease, it seems like you can be fine and going along great, then have an attack and can't do a thing. I don't know about side effects from day to day that may affect a professional athlete, but if he can play fine on "non-attack" days, as he seems to be doing now, I don't see why he couldn't get a minor-league contract for sure, and maybe fill in as a solid backup in the NHL someday if he progresses that far and keeps the disease at bay.
Bleeding Orange wrote:Hey FF, do you think he still has a chance to go pro? For his sake, I truly, truly hope he does. It is just totally unfair for something like this to happen to him at his age (as if its fair at any age...).
I wondered the same thing, but knowing the very little I do about this disease, it seems like you can be fine and going along great, then have an attack and can't do a thing. I don't know about side effects from day to day that may affect a professional athlete, but if he can play fine on "non-attack" days, as he seems to be doing now, I don't see why he couldn't get a minor-league contract for sure, and maybe fill in as a solid backup in the NHL someday if he progresses that far and keeps the disease at bay.
Well, no matter what, we all need to pray for him and thank whatever power you may believe in that he has such a great support system right now.
From the halls of ivy...
It is not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work - work with us, not over us; stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it. ~Ronald Reagan
Ben Petrick played several years of Major League Baseball after he was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease.
It's obviously not the same thing, but in situations like this, it's always nice to know that there are athletes who have overcome very serious illness to play big-time professional sports.
I'm not as cool as Tony Gaver, nor will I ever be.
