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Lou Gerig Disease

Posted By: Dave
Date: Monday, September 19 2005, at 3:12 p.m.

Lou Gerig Disease is named after the first person who was diagnosed with it - Lou Gerig, a great baseball player from way back. It has a great (inspiring) story if I remember it correctly. After he was diagnosed and knew that he was going to die and wasn't able to play baseball anymore, he gave a speech at one of the games to all of his fans. The famous line from that speech is something like "I'm the luckiest man alive." Even though he knew he was going to die from this disease, he was glad for the life he had and the things that he was able to do (like play baseball). Very admirable.

 

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Message: > Lou Gerig Disease is named after the first person who > was diagnosed with it - Lou Gerig, a great baseball > player from way back. It has a great (inspiring) story > if I remember it correctly. > After he was diagnosed and knew that he was going to > die and wasn't able to play baseball anymore, he gave > a speech at one of the games to all of his fans. The > famous line from that speech is something like > "I'm the luckiest man alive." Even though he > knew he was going to die from this disease, he was > glad for the life he had and the things that he was > able to do (like play baseball). Very admirable.
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