Rockets visit Ronald McDonald House [Must Read]

htownrox1 · Dec 9, 2010

This is truly a well written, inspiring story. It really is a must read.

http://www.nba.com/rockets/news/the_master_plan_2010_12_09.html

Here are some exerpts:

And it’s at this exact moment, right around the time we start discussing Frank Lloyd Wright, that a lump begins to form in my throat. I’ve been here before. Literally. Two years ago I made my first visit to the Ronald McDonald House and befriended a girl by the name of Marissa Pino. She was 16 and battling bone cancer. She possessed a spirit similar to Harley’s. We’d speak of her hopes and dreams during my too infrequent follow-up visits, which came in between her myriad chemotherapy and radiation treatments. After awhile, the doctors told her they needed to amputate her leg in order to ensure the complete eradication of the cancerous cells in her body. Like the warrior she was, Marissa fully embraced the procedure – anything to be free of this insidious disease. Afterward, she went home to New Mexico with a smile on her face, ready to resume her life. One month later, she was back at Ronald McDonald House and so was the cancer – this time worse than ever before. Less than two months later, she was dead.

All these memories come flooding back as I listen to Harley regale me with one story after another. Her tale has to have a different ending than Marissa’s. It just has to. So many of us spend our lives fussing and fretting over the most inconsequential things, and in the process end up wasting the days which are guaranteed to no one. How cruel, then, to witness a premature end to the lives of those precious few souls who dare to dream big and live with the zeal of someone bound and determined to maximize every second of every day.
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So true..

mikol13 · Dec 9, 2010

Good stuff. The things that put life into perspective. Thanks for posting.

True Rocket · Dec 9, 2010

Some real ****

tchou · Dec 10, 2010

Positively touching.

BDswangHTX · Dec 10, 2010

Seemingly unaffected by the scene sits this solitary figure, alone with her thoughts. Alone. That is the word which keeps resonating. Alone, alone, alone. How much horror lies entombed within that word, eager to escape at a moment’s notice to feast and prey upon our deepest, darkest fears and insecurities; its power to haunt only heightened during the holiday season. Such demons do not belong here but surely make themselves right at home in places such as these. In fact it’s probably among their favorite feeding grounds given the infinite supply of uncertainty and angst which inevitably reside here.
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that's some heavy stuff, man.

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