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So I was going through my pictures on my computer and FB (Great picture repository) to find a shot of my infected incision to show @CaraOC and it took me down memory lane a little bit so I thought I would post a few.
This one is of my three favorite guys in the world who mean everything to me: Cameron, Collin and my Dad (honestly the best man I have ever met...I am so lucky to have him as a Father). This was taken last year at one of Collin's football games (Elmhurst College in Chicagoland). Collin was 1st team all conference Defensive Back in HighSchool and at one point his team had won 27 straight season games. They went to the state playoffs every year and would have won his Junior year but they got bumped up a class and had to play much larger schools...
This one is from Collin's sophomore year at the IHSA State Finals where he ran the first leg of the 4 x 800 and we led the entire race until our anchor was passed by the top runner in the state on the anchor leg so we came in 2nd even though we barely qualified for the finals. Huge surprise to us as we took off over 30 seconds from our sectional qualifying time (how you qualify for the state preliminaries then 12 teams make the finals....we were 12th because we got boxed in during the prelims and had a bad race). Anyway this is Collin and his coach who is a great guy and Illinois Hall of Fame and National Cross Country Coach of the year one time....he has coached I believe 7 teams to IHSA Cross Country Championships. He coaches track as well.
Actually this is from Collin's senior year. He was All state and medalled 4 times. He made the IHSA state finals in at least one event all four years of high school. He is a great all around athlete and was dunking a basketball with his left hand (he is right handed) his freshman year. He is only 6'3
This is my wife Dianna, Collin and I
and finally this a picture of Cameron, Collin and Bruce Weber (Was Head Basketball coach of my Alma Mater the University of Illinois) in the locker room in 2011 before the Wisconsin basketball game. Cameron had just been diagnosed with Lypnpocyte Predominant Hodgkin Lymphoma and before he started his battle and chemo I sent an email to coach Weber to ask if we could possibly let Cameron meet him and the players after the game because we were coming down for the game and since it was last minute we had nose bleed seats. Well, I got a phone call the night before the game and it was Assistant Coach Jay Price telling me to show up to the game 90 minutes early and we would meet with Coach and the team, and the put us on the floor next to the team for the game. Cameron and Collin met all the players (and couple texted Cameron throughout his battle) and go to listen to Coach give the pre game speech in the locker room. They also gave him a hat signed by the entire Illini team. Coach talked to Cameron after the speech for a good ten minutes giving him all kinds of encouragement. I finally had to say to Coach, "Coach I really appreciate your time and what you have done for Cameron, but I think the game is about to start so you should probably get out there with the team". That is the kind of man Bruce Weber is and I will respect that man until I die.
Okay a couple more of Cameron going through his battle
This is poor quality as I took it on an old phone with not a great Cameron. He is read because he was on vancomyacin at this point because they thought he had a blood infection because his port wouldn't flush. Well it turned out being a blood clot in the central line at that end dumping into the heart and he ended up with a Pulmonary Embolism as a result and was in critical condition in ICU for a week getting the Clot busted up with TPA .....he nearly died the first night and would have had we been at home.
This is Cameron at his Junior Prom (he missed his entire spring semester of his junior year as he was in the St Jude Midwest Affilate's portion of the Children's Hospital of Illinois for most of 6 months that year). He was voted Junior Class Attendant . His hair was starting to grow back in this picture.
Okay, sorry...since I am at it.... @Spiky Bugger this is what $230K buys you in a very nice small town (2,500 people) with a great school district that is 20 minutes West of Peoria.
It doesn't look very big but this house is actually 3,000 sq ft with another 1,500 in the basement
Finally, Honey and Maverick our incredibly loving and playful dogs.
This one is of my three favorite guys in the world who mean everything to me: Cameron, Collin and my Dad (honestly the best man I have ever met...I am so lucky to have him as a Father). This was taken last year at one of Collin's football games (Elmhurst College in Chicagoland). Collin was 1st team all conference Defensive Back in HighSchool and at one point his team had won 27 straight season games. They went to the state playoffs every year and would have won his Junior year but they got bumped up a class and had to play much larger schools...
This one is from Collin's sophomore year at the IHSA State Finals where he ran the first leg of the 4 x 800 and we led the entire race until our anchor was passed by the top runner in the state on the anchor leg so we came in 2nd even though we barely qualified for the finals. Huge surprise to us as we took off over 30 seconds from our sectional qualifying time (how you qualify for the state preliminaries then 12 teams make the finals....we were 12th because we got boxed in during the prelims and had a bad race). Anyway this is Collin and his coach who is a great guy and Illinois Hall of Fame and National Cross Country Coach of the year one time....he has coached I believe 7 teams to IHSA Cross Country Championships. He coaches track as well.
Actually this is from Collin's senior year. He was All state and medalled 4 times. He made the IHSA state finals in at least one event all four years of high school. He is a great all around athlete and was dunking a basketball with his left hand (he is right handed) his freshman year. He is only 6'3
This is my wife Dianna, Collin and I
and finally this a picture of Cameron, Collin and Bruce Weber (Was Head Basketball coach of my Alma Mater the University of Illinois) in the locker room in 2011 before the Wisconsin basketball game. Cameron had just been diagnosed with Lypnpocyte Predominant Hodgkin Lymphoma and before he started his battle and chemo I sent an email to coach Weber to ask if we could possibly let Cameron meet him and the players after the game because we were coming down for the game and since it was last minute we had nose bleed seats. Well, I got a phone call the night before the game and it was Assistant Coach Jay Price telling me to show up to the game 90 minutes early and we would meet with Coach and the team, and the put us on the floor next to the team for the game. Cameron and Collin met all the players (and couple texted Cameron throughout his battle) and go to listen to Coach give the pre game speech in the locker room. They also gave him a hat signed by the entire Illini team. Coach talked to Cameron after the speech for a good ten minutes giving him all kinds of encouragement. I finally had to say to Coach, "Coach I really appreciate your time and what you have done for Cameron, but I think the game is about to start so you should probably get out there with the team". That is the kind of man Bruce Weber is and I will respect that man until I die.
Okay a couple more of Cameron going through his battle
This is poor quality as I took it on an old phone with not a great Cameron. He is read because he was on vancomyacin at this point because they thought he had a blood infection because his port wouldn't flush. Well it turned out being a blood clot in the central line at that end dumping into the heart and he ended up with a Pulmonary Embolism as a result and was in critical condition in ICU for a week getting the Clot busted up with TPA .....he nearly died the first night and would have had we been at home.
This is Cameron at his Junior Prom (he missed his entire spring semester of his junior year as he was in the St Jude Midwest Affilate's portion of the Children's Hospital of Illinois for most of 6 months that year). He was voted Junior Class Attendant . His hair was starting to grow back in this picture.
Okay, sorry...since I am at it.... @Spiky Bugger this is what $230K buys you in a very nice small town (2,500 people) with a great school district that is 20 minutes West of Peoria.
It doesn't look very big but this house is actually 3,000 sq ft with another 1,500 in the basement
Finally, Honey and Maverick our incredibly loving and playful dogs.
