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Hockey Bloggers Can Make A Difference
by George James Malik on 12/04/07 at 03:58 PM ET
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Joe Pelletier of Greatest Hockey Legends has issued a challenge to hockey bloggers across the blogosphere to adopt a charity, and the charity of choice was an easy one.
Red Wings coach Mike Babcock may be my favourite Wing, Babblespeak and all, and the frequent visitor to Children’s Hospital in Detroit was moved by the death of one of his biggest fans as the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks’ coach, Jeffery Thomas Hayden, who died of a brain tumour at 12 years of age.
Babcock has lent his name and considerable time and effort into both raising awareness for this understudied area of cancer research and providing a network of resources and support for parents who face the unreality that is their child suffering from a brain tumour at an extremely young age.
We’ve all been affected by cancer in some form or other--one in three people will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives--and anyone who’s spent significant time in a hospital receiving treatment for their own illnesses, such as myself (I had two surgeries to correct obstructive sleep apnea), will tell you that you can be feeling sorry for yourself as you come out of surgery one moment, and the next, when you see a child attempting to carry an IV stand along with them as they walk through the hallway, you end up realizing how lucky you are, and how gutturally wrong it is to see any child suffer through a traumatic illness.
I’m not asking you to make a donation, but, especially at this time of year, it’s important that we remember that there are kids who are dealing with life-threatening and often fatal illnesses, and we’re really fortunate to have people like Mike Babcock spending considerable time, effort, energy, and dollars to help sick kids suffer less and get better faster.
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