Riding for Roses

I received this email yesterday from Art, who is on the Team in Training team this year raising money for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society. Please join us tomorrow at 8 AM in Liberty Hill for the TNT Hill Country Hundred to support the team. You can also donate to support Art’s effort and help cure blood cancers.

14 years ago [March 30] I was diagnosed with AML.  At that time my children Hannah  and Matt were 2 and 4.  Both of them are great kids.  However this is about  Matt, Hannah will have to wait a couple of years for me to brag about her. When I had my transplant, Matt turned 5 while I was still in the hospital.  I wondered if I would see him go to kindergarten.

Now he is about to graduate from high school.  We are still waiting to see what colleges he gets into—we should know in the next few days.  He is an Eagle Scout, a National Merit Scholar and was captain of the wrestling team at his high school and a very good wrestler. Matt and I are fundraising and riding together with the Team in Training program of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.Actually we are not so much riding together as he waits for his old Dad at the top of the hill or at the next rest stop.A little humbling, but at least he is willing to be seen with his Dad. 

Sometimes I need to remind myself of this, but life is good.