My family and I are having a rotten Thanksgiving week with my oldest daughter (6) undergoing a five-hour surgery to improve her kidney function yesterday. She feels horrible post-op (nausea, pain from the surgical incisions, pain from the stuff they had to put inside her, etc.), which makes my wife and I feel horrible...while missing time away from home and work (self-employed, so that is simply lost income). We're all kind of down in the dumps (especially me, who had to leave my wife and daughter at the hospital last night so I could come home and starting figuring out ways to pay those impending bills).
My wife and daughter are in my daughter's hospital room this afternoon...just trying to get her better and keep my daughter's spirits up, when who should walk through the door but LB Ben Leber of the Minnesota Vikings. Came over to the hospital with a few other players to visit the children's floor and sign a few autographs and such. He talked to my daughter about her trip to Vikings Training Camp this year (she said her favorite parts of Camp were meeting Viktor, the mascot, and having her picture taken with the cheerleaders), then he took a picture with her and gave her an autographed practice ball and a teddy bear.
How cool is that? Players taking a Tuesday afternoon to come brighten the days of a few dozen kids recovering from surgeries (and worse) and bring them lots of toys and stuff. I'm sure probably all NFL teams do stuff like this on a semi-regular basis...but I got to experience first-hand today how much that means to kids and their parents to have that little ray of sunshine brighten an otherwise gray, gloomy day.
Well done, Mr. Leber and the Minnesota Vikings organization! Well done.
My wife and daughter are in my daughter's hospital room this afternoon...just trying to get her better and keep my daughter's spirits up, when who should walk through the door but LB Ben Leber of the Minnesota Vikings. Came over to the hospital with a few other players to visit the children's floor and sign a few autographs and such. He talked to my daughter about her trip to Vikings Training Camp this year (she said her favorite parts of Camp were meeting Viktor, the mascot, and having her picture taken with the cheerleaders), then he took a picture with her and gave her an autographed practice ball and a teddy bear.
How cool is that? Players taking a Tuesday afternoon to come brighten the days of a few dozen kids recovering from surgeries (and worse) and bring them lots of toys and stuff. I'm sure probably all NFL teams do stuff like this on a semi-regular basis...but I got to experience first-hand today how much that means to kids and their parents to have that little ray of sunshine brighten an otherwise gray, gloomy day.
Well done, Mr. Leber and the Minnesota Vikings organization! Well done.
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All the best and T&P's for your family.
