Team Hoyt, A Fathers Love

[stovebolts]

About cried all the way through it...

http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?v ... dd9ea45513

What an inspiring story! It's not what you'd expect! :D

http://www.teamhoyt.com/history.shtml

For the past twenty five years or more Dick, who is 65, has pushed and pulled his son across the country and over hundreds of finish lines. When Dick runs, Rick is in a wheelchair that Dick is pushing. When Dick cycles, Rick is in the seat-pod from his wheelchair, attached to the front of the bike. When Dick swims, Rick is in a small but heavy, firmly stabilized boat being pulled by Dick.

At Rick’s birth in 1962 the umbilical cord coiled around his neck and cut off oxygen to his brain. Dick and his wife, Judy, were told that there would be no hope for their child’s development.

"It’s been a story of exclusion ever since he was born," Dick told me. "When he was eight months old the doctors told us we should just put him away  he’d be a vegetable all his life, that sort of thing. Well those doctors are not alive any more, but I would like them to be able to see Rick now."

" What I mean when I say I feel like I am not handicapped when competing is that I am just like the other athletes, and I think most of the athletes feel the same way. In the beginning nobody would come up to me. However, after a few races some athletes came around and they began to talk to me. During the early days one runner, Pete Wisnewski had a bet with me at every race on who would beat who. The loser had to hang the winner’s number in his bedroom until the next race. Now many athletes will come up to me before the race or triathlon to wish me luck."

Wish I could post the whole article!

 

[stovebolts]

Anyone else catch this video? (or were ya just too teared up to reply )

 

[stovebolts]

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For Carol and others :wink:

 

[Carol Lowery]

You are sooooooooo naughty! You just want all of us to be a bunch of blubbering runny nose puffy eyed snot nosed habitual kleenex users. :smt022 But people I have a remedy.....Mega Rolls of Paper Towels, extra assorbant!!! Works Good. See if I tell you anything else you stinker. :-D And here I was considering web-cam....Ahhh you would have like that one huh Stovebolts? You could use our faces instead of the smiley faces? Tsk Tsk you're such a stinker.

All kidding aside glad to see you gave an addy for it, it's such an inspiration and the song "My Redeemer Lives" is so appropriate. Sniff Sniff boy does it tug on the heart strings.

Kudos HIM,
Carolpsalm91 <><

 

[stovebolts]

Yeah Carol, it's a heart tugger. :wink:

One thing that amazes me, is how the doctors thought he was a vegetable. Come to find out his mind is perfect! Awsome!

 

[Carol Lowery]

Just goes to show you Jeff you can't judge a book by it's cover. Public school did the same thing to my son, said he was retarded, I told them he's not retarded and if he was I could accept that he's my son. So I took him and and put him in a church home school for children, they evaluated him, suggested medication which my husband and I agreed too. Waited 3 months and they gave him another IQ test and at the age of 10 his IQ was 140. So needless to say I went into the flesh and returned to his old school and proceeded to wait my turn with the principle and proudly laid the results on his desk, and politely said now you owe me and my son an apology. And when he said they would be glad to have him back......I said not on your life!
It's amazing how they would of robbed him of his life if his father didn't stand up for him and show just because the vessel/body may be alittle complicated, doesn't mean the mind's not sound and sharp as a tack.

Kudos,
Carol

 

[Vic C.]

You are sooooooooo naughty! You just want all of us to be a bunch of blubbering runny nose puffy eyed snot nosed habitual kleenex users. :smt022 ...

OK, there's NO WAY i'm going to view it now! :o




(maybe later though ;-) )

 

[sheshisown]

Oh Vic you're nothin but a little :puppydogeyes: ! Who woulda thunk it? Big hearted dude eh? :wink:


I have blessed all my family with this beautiful loving example of God's glory!

Truly ~ AWESOME!
So what if I do :smt089 every time I see it, it's a good kind of eye-wash ~

 

[Vic C.]

Hey, I still cry when I watch ET! :-D

 

[sheshisown]

Awwwww . . . remember his cute little voice? Hooooome . . . and his last words?
You will always be right > :smt049 here. Now you've got me crying. :smt022

Sniff sniff; Common big guy let yer heart throb a little.

The Comforter will be with ya' ~ He promised.

your sis.