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Re: Have you ever won anything? - john dough - 12-24-2008
Won TONS of stuff from local radio station in the 80s when I had a demon dialer (that was GREAT tech back then); I ALWAYS got through.
Mostly small stuff over the years but won a meet/greet with INXS right before Michael Hutchence died; absolutely nice guy.
Re: Have you ever won anything? - mikebw - 12-24-2008
Oh, also won tickets to see Nine Inch Nails and A Perfect Circle back in 2000. Loudest concert I have ever been to. Period.
Re: Have you ever won anything? - Golfer - 12-24-2008
space-time wrote:
wow Golfer, that is way above the scope of this thread. Glad to hear it though. How old is he now? when was the battle with cancer?
He was born with it but it wasn't caught until he was 3 months old (actually the docs said it more than likely started the day he was conceived). Tumor started in his abdomen and grew into his spinal column crushing his spinal cord. Stage 4 neuroblastoma. He had surgery right away to remove the portion of the tumor in his spinal column and a year of intensive chemo then a surgery to remove the shrunken tumor from his abdomen (it was originally to large and intertwined to remove). He's doing great now. Even with all the original problems, and the several surgeries since (5, if i recall right), lose of about 90% use of his legs, you'd never met a kid that has a more positive attitude than him. He's definitely my hero. Any time I feel like life's getting me down I just look at or think of him and realize just how good life is.
Re: Have you ever won anything? - space-time - 12-25-2008
Golfer wrote:
[quote=space-time]
wow Golfer, that is way above the scope of this thread. Glad to hear it though. How old is he now? when was the battle with cancer?
He was born with it but it wasn't caught until he was 3 months old (actually the docs said it more than likely started the day he was conceived). Tumor started in his abdomen and grew into his spinal column crushing his spinal cord. Stage 4 neuroblastoma. He had surgery right away to remove the portion of the tumor in his spinal column and a year of intensive chemo then a surgery to remove the shrunken tumor from his abdomen (it was originally to large and intertwined to remove). He's doing great now. Even with all the original problems, and the several surgeries since (5, if i recall right), lose of about 90% use of his legs, you'd never met a kid that has a more positive attitude than him. He's definitely my hero. Any time I feel like life's getting me down I just look at or think of him and realize just how good life is.
Wow Golfer, wow... I cannot describe what I feel.
Re: Have you ever won anything? - Speedy - 12-30-2008
Won a dinner for two in a school raffle that the secretary at work was selling for her kids. The restaurant was 70 miles away (work is 55 miles away). I gave the prize to the secretary.