Today's Hero-dad
Today, Wednesday, November 12th - we celebrate a Hero-dad. It was 
clearly submitted with love - and we thank you for allowing us to share it with the 2175 for ALS Team.
Embrace the day - it is ours to celebrate today,
*Team 2175
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Hero-Dad | (submitted w/o name)
My story begins January of this year. I received a call from my sister saying "Dads in the hospital. He has been having trouble with his blood pressure and, remember a few months ago when he said he had been feeling weak".
I reply " Oh, yes. I remember."
In my mind thinking, 'well your parents are getting older and unlike no other this happens all the time, he'll get pills and he's fine but, when he gets home we'll have to cut out all his red meat. Boy, won't that be an obstacle'.
Just a few weeks later and after several test it wasn't high blood pressure but, ALS. What is ALS? I had no idea but thought, 'oh it's nothing, again he'll get pills and he'll be fine'. Little did I know that wasn't the end but the beginning of a world that I thought he'd never be. As the months past right before my eyes my dad began to change and I felt as if ALS had taken him from me. He went from 6ft. healthy, strong, 250lb. intimidating when he walked into a room man to 165lb can't lift his right hand.
I reminisce in my mind all the things he use to do. One of the being a self proclaimed mechanic. He could fix any vehicle foreign or domestic. If it could be seen on interstate 95 he could fix it. From a oil change, to engine trouble. Just a few years ago when my car stalled on a main street he single-handedly pushed and I steered about a mile to his home. I mean, "He was no weak man".
When ALS came into our lives everything I knew him to be felt……………………lost, taken, stolen. To a little girl her Dad is and will always be the strongest man alive and no one could tell her different. So to me he will always be that strong man. Today and everyday lives the image of the past I try become his strength.
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