1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,639 Speaker 1: As you know, on Friday's bottom of the two o'clock hour, 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:06,720 Speaker 1: it is time for our Franciscan Health feel good, good 3 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:10,280 Speaker 1: for the herd Friday. Of course, this is all coming 4 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 1: to you in partnership with Franciscan Health to raise awareness 5 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:16,799 Speaker 1: about cardiovascular health. We talk a lot about it, and 6 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 1: I have been really appreciative of everybody buying into what 7 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 1: we're talking about. 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And 27 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 1: I thought about today and you know the story I 28 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:28,759 Speaker 1: knew I was going to do when I was reading 29 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 1: yesterday on the Book of Faces, and I was reading 30 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 1: a post from my buddy Pat Dyer, who I've mentioned 31 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:44,400 Speaker 1: Pat on the show before. Great dude, and you know 32 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:46,279 Speaker 1: I've gotten a no pad a little bit over the years, 33 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 1: and he had a post about his son Preston. And 34 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:53,640 Speaker 1: his son Preston, you know, he's got two children and 35 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: Preston is the one of his two children with special needs. 36 00:01:58,000 --> 00:01:58,520 Speaker 2: And when he was. 37 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: Writing about Preston and what he said, and it really 38 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 1: struck a chord with me. He said, you know, it's 39 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 1: difficult and a challenge when you have a child with 40 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:15,360 Speaker 1: special needs, because you know, they have their sibling that 41 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 1: they're friends with growing up, and especially in younger years, 42 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 1: that gives them that social outlet. 43 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:21,359 Speaker 2: But then when they get into. 44 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 1: The school age years, especially those children with developmental challenges 45 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 1: or social challenges, communicative challenges like Preston has. The one 46 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 1: you know, the sibling once you get into school. Now, 47 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 1: the sibling that doesn't have some of those challenges before 48 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 1: them is making school friends, and they're getting invited to 49 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 1: baseball games, and they're part of the school play and 50 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 1: all of the things that we maybe take for granted 51 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:54,399 Speaker 1: when we were kids. That are all just part of 52 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 1: adapting to and being away from home and being away 53 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 1: from mom and dad at school at younger years and 54 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:04,840 Speaker 1: whatever else. And Preston and so many like him, they 55 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:08,359 Speaker 1: have their own gifts, They have their own contribution, they 56 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:12,079 Speaker 1: have their own way that they've been created and crafted 57 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:17,839 Speaker 1: in the world to make their mark, to leave their 58 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:20,800 Speaker 1: beauty on the world itself. But it doesn't always come 59 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 1: in the traditional form that we've known. Maybe sometimes it's 60 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 1: simply by giving a look of an appreciation or by 61 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 1: accomplishing a task that might be menial to others but 62 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 1: is big to them. And so you see in that 63 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 1: moment of victory. And that's what we talk a lot about, 64 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 1: and in reading pat just talking about some of the 65 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 1: challenges that he and his wife have of knowing that 66 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 1: Preston has his own victories, but seeing maybe even if 67 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 1: he's unaware of it, that he doesn't get to participate 68 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 1: in some of the normal victories that kids do, and 69 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 1: grasping that and understanding the importance of seeing the triumph 70 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 1: in all of us is why the story that I 71 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 1: read about and had talked with our friend Kyle Nednrip 72 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:15,520 Speaker 1: about on the air a little bit before. And I 73 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 1: knew that Kyle and I both were kind of made 74 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:19,120 Speaker 1: aware of this story a couple of weeks ago. And 75 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 1: I'm talking about going back to the middle of January, 76 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:24,799 Speaker 1: January thirteenth in particular, and a game between Ron Colly 77 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:26,360 Speaker 1: and Perry Meridian and basketball. 78 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 2: And we've all seen it. We all know that kid. 79 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:32,360 Speaker 1: Or you go to a game and you see a 80 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:33,840 Speaker 1: kid that gets into the game at the end of 81 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:36,640 Speaker 1: the game and chucks up a three when his team's 82 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:38,600 Speaker 1: up twenty five, or chucks up a three when his 83 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:40,680 Speaker 1: team's down thirty, whatever it might be, and you're like, 84 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:45,160 Speaker 1: come on, But not unlike say, for the example of Preston, 85 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:48,800 Speaker 1: you never really know what the real victory is. You 86 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:51,800 Speaker 1: never really know what the true meaning is behind a 87 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 1: moment and why everybody seems to be going above and 88 00:04:56,600 --> 00:05:00,560 Speaker 1: beyond with their celebration for a kid like Braden Collins 89 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:03,840 Speaker 1: coming in an undersized guard at Ron Collie and hitting 90 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 1: a three from the corner. Why is everybody excited about 91 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:09,480 Speaker 1: a guy that came in and played fifty seconds in 92 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 1: a game and hit a three? 93 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:14,719 Speaker 2: Whooped? You do well? 94 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 1: Sometimes a shot from a corner is more than that. 95 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:23,839 Speaker 1: Sometimes it's a shot that actually is going a lot 96 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:28,040 Speaker 1: more above and beyond from nineteen feet nine inches, like 97 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:30,719 Speaker 1: for example, Brayden who is a sophomore at Ron colly 98 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 1: In too Go, part of the JV basketball team and 99 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 1: on his way to becoming a really solid rotation player 100 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: as any kid dreams of at the varsity level for 101 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:44,720 Speaker 1: the Royals, and a kid that really good player, good shooter, 102 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:48,480 Speaker 1: can handle the basketball, facilitate and do a lot of 103 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 1: different things. And at the end of his sophomore year, 104 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:53,480 Speaker 1: like most kids in June of twenty twenty four, I'm 105 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 1: sure he was probably going and playing pickup ball and 106 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:59,279 Speaker 1: open gym and basketball camps. But all of a sudden, 107 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 1: things just felt different. Things felt different. Stamina wasn't there, 108 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:10,919 Speaker 1: muscle aches and pains out of nowhere. Something seemed off, 109 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:14,720 Speaker 1: you know, what, Let's do some tests, let's find out, 110 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:17,279 Speaker 1: let's make sure that we're getting you in the best 111 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:19,600 Speaker 1: shape you can be for your junior year and heading on. 112 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 2: To JV ball. 113 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 1: So during those tests, they find out that Brayden Collins 114 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 1: had b sell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, which is a really 115 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:33,479 Speaker 1: fancy way of saying. He was a pretty sick young guy. 116 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:39,359 Speaker 1: And at that point basketball becomes secondary. You got a 117 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:45,720 Speaker 1: much bigger game to play. But you know, victory is 118 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 1: found sometimes in the littlest of ways, And in this 119 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:53,920 Speaker 1: case for Braden, after losing fifty five pounds, after getting 120 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 1: so weak that just simply dribbling a basketball became arduous, 121 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:02,880 Speaker 1: he never lost focus or vision and the fact that 122 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:06,799 Speaker 1: the basketball team was still his group, that was his team, 123 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:09,680 Speaker 1: and being able to get back and be able to 124 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 1: play with them, practice with them, be around them, that 125 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 1: was the simple little victory that he was looking for 126 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 1: and finding the community within his team, and so he 127 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 1: never lost sight of that. And yes, he had to 128 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 1: go through all of the treatments that one has to 129 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 1: go through and that circumstance, and he had to never 130 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 1: lose sight of the kind of dual aspect of maintaining 131 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 1: his game but also maintaining his health, the latter one 132 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:47,120 Speaker 1: being the bigger priority. But what a benefit and a 133 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:54,000 Speaker 1: blessing to have that opportunity and to now have what 134 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 1: is considered to be an everyday practice victory that at 135 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 1: one time probably would have been below what any player 136 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 1: that's aspiring to make the varsity wants to do. But 137 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 1: now you've simply moved the post a little bit on 138 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 1: what truly the goal is. And that's what life is 139 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:15,240 Speaker 1: all about, sometimes finding the goal, finding the purpose that 140 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:19,120 Speaker 1: is best for you in that moment. You know, for 141 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:24,520 Speaker 1: most parents like Pat and his wife with Preston, initially 142 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 1: you have goals for what your child's going to be 143 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 1: in elementary school. But then you learn that sometimes nature 144 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 1: and medicine and the body might have other ideas, and 145 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:38,319 Speaker 1: it's about finding the purpose and finding the little victory. 146 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:41,560 Speaker 1: And in the case of Braden Collins, when he finally 147 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 1: was able to get back and simply be around the 148 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 1: guys at basketball practice, that purpose came back and so 149 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:51,440 Speaker 1: to then the reality of goal number two, which was 150 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 1: to get back to the point of shooting baskets. First 151 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:58,960 Speaker 1: free throw he took could barely graze the net, lost 152 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:02,320 Speaker 1: fifty five pounds't the strongest guy in the world, and 153 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 1: think about just how much your body is depleted from 154 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 1: B cell acute lymphoblastomach leukemia. But he never lost sight 155 00:09:10,559 --> 00:09:14,880 Speaker 1: of the goal. Neither did his teammates, which is why 156 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:19,680 Speaker 1: on January thirteenth, in a blowout game, when a kid 157 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 1: that many would say, well, look at the pasique of 158 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:25,280 Speaker 1: that kid, no wonder why he's a friends JV varsity 159 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:30,199 Speaker 1: player gets in for fifty seconds and they find him 160 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:34,520 Speaker 1: in the corner. They find him in the corner, and 161 00:09:34,559 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 1: he buries a three. And it's as much about the 162 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:42,840 Speaker 1: victory in this case for Braden as it is also 163 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:46,160 Speaker 1: the victory for those kids at RONCLLI. Because what we 164 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 1: should be teaching our kids, what should we should be 165 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 1: thinking about ourselves, is just when athletics are going the 166 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 1: way that you want, just when life is going the 167 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:57,560 Speaker 1: way that you want, just when the game plan is 168 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 1: going just as you thought. Sometimes it's also important to 169 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:04,480 Speaker 1: remember that there's a kid that's simply looking for a 170 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:05,599 Speaker 1: little victory. 171 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:06,480 Speaker 2: And it's that kid in the corner. 172 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:09,320 Speaker 1: And when you see that kid in the corner, you 173 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 1: kick it over to them and then you find out 174 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:15,199 Speaker 1: even with everything they've been through, they're able to bury 175 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:17,960 Speaker 1: a three. And that's why each time you go to 176 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:20,280 Speaker 1: a game, each time you see that kid in the corner, 177 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:26,560 Speaker 1: you need to think about and realize the entire backstory 178 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:29,079 Speaker 1: and the entire journey that might be putting them in 179 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:32,079 Speaker 1: that place, and how something that you might overlook might 180 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:34,440 Speaker 1: be actually monumental. 181 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:35,960 Speaker 2: To them and to those that found them. 182 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:38,440 Speaker 1: And I thought it was an awesome story, and I 183 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:42,439 Speaker 1: congratulate Braden, and I congratulate Ron Colly for giving him 184 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:45,960 Speaker 1: that purpose, and for that matter, to Pat and his 185 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:48,400 Speaker 1: wife as well, for making sure that Preston is the 186 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:50,480 Speaker 1: kid that people can always find in the corner. 187 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:52,439 Speaker 2: And that's what it's all about. 188 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:56,200 Speaker 1: And I appreciate that Franciscan each and every Friday allows 189 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:59,079 Speaker 1: us to tell such stories while reminding you to make 190 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 1: sure that your cardio vascular care is where it needs 191 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 1: to be. 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