This is truly a sad story. Thoughts and prayers to the family.

I was working a scrim (15-18 y/o) at a local private school when a girl suddenly checked herself out of the game, made it to the bench, collapsed and began having a seizure. By the time 911 got there she had resumed consciousness, but she was taken to the hospital where she was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect. Scary!

Thanks John for your sharing. We all are saddened.

No man is an island. We all, each of us in some way, small or great, affect one another.

Because we have shared in this tragedy--in a small way, we now should feel some obligation to take from it some good. In doing so, we honor--at least in some small degree--the loss of this family.

Do we share our love and kindness a little more freely? Do we increase our patience & forebearance with one another a little more? As we are foreced to focus on things more important, I hope so.

Ace,

I've been following this on this forum, but I dont have your e-mail and would like to send a note to the family. Could you please post it for me.

THANKS.

Just click on Mail under one of his posts.

You know what strikes me most about ace's situation? It's that most people don't realize how much we really do care about the game and it's participants.
They see us as the bad guys much of the time. ace shed tears, as I would have, and have a few times.
ace's reaction only solidifies the notion that I have had about our "group".
That being, that we truely do care, more than anyone will ever know.

Great point, Barb!

Ditto Great Point!!!
 

Its about being responsible. One of my mentors told me his philosophy, he said, "its my court".

God bless!

His wake is tommorow and his funeral is thursday. I plan on attending the funeral. I'll have an obituary link as soon as the Houston Chronicle puts it up. They were waiting on autopsy and all that stuff before making funeral arrangments.

Thanks for all the support, emails, and encouragement. Now if someone could just get me some sleeping pills :-/

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