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Sorry if this is in the wrong area. First post.. and I needed it to be in an area where there were a lot of people looking.
Please feel free to visit 'a sister site' board.. where this is also posted.
http://www.panthershuddle.com
THANKS!! Any help is greatly appreciated!
Im posting this from the Shelby Star, (NC newspaper) Website.. Anyone that can pull any strings let me know.. I have 2 tickets that I would be willing to donate .. but the problem is they will need to be in the Handicapped area..and will probably need 4 tickets so that they can have a person with each them to roll them in and take care of them.
Please read
Or if anyone has any pull at the Dallas Cowboy Public Relations and can get this information to them.. It would be GREATLY appreciated.
original story link http://www.shelbystar.com/portal/ASP/article_new.asp?ID=20050
Brothers’ ‘dream of a lifetime’: See the Cowboys
Alan Jenkins
Star Staff Writer
SHELBY — When the Dallas Cowboys face the Carolina Panthers on Christmas Eve, Tim and Rodney Howard won’t be pulling for the home team.
“The Cowboys are the best!” Tim said.
But Rodney, 38, and Tim, 32, won’t get the chance to attend the game unless someone in the community can help. The two have a degenerative muscle disease, and a minister’s wife is trying to find a way to get them to the game.
“It would be their dream of a lifetime,” Janet Sass said. She and her husband, Dan, lead a church service and Sunday school at Century Care of Shelby, an assisted-living facility for people of all ages.
That’s where they met the brothers.
“The boys have always been Cowboys fans,” Mrs. Sass said. “You can’t talk to them about anything else.”
When the brothers asked Mrs. Sass to pray that they might be able to attend the Dec. 24 game, she said she had to help. So she called the Carolina Panthers.
Officials there told her that tickets for the game were sold out months in advance, Mrs. Sass said. In addition, the brothers would require special handicapped seating.
Now, she’s asking anyone in the community to help the brothers get to the game or, at least, help them meet a Dallas Cowboy.
Tim and Rodney’s mother, Edna Howard, works at Century Care, where her sons live. She said doctors identify their disease as Hallervorden Spatz, a rare condition that affects the muscles. “Their muscles have deteriorated,” Mrs. Howard said.
The boys spend their days confined to wheelchairs. They can barely move and have limited speech capabilities.
“Usually, sufferers don’t live to be grown,” Mrs. Howard said.
The disease doesn’t affect the mind, however. Tim is creative, wanting to write poetry and sermons. He has people write his thoughts down for him, Mrs. Howard said.
Meeting a Dallas Cowboy or seeing the game would be a dream come true for the boys, Mrs. Howard said.
20050 - 11/28/2005 - LN
Please feel free to visit 'a sister site' board.. where this is also posted.
http://www.panthershuddle.com
THANKS!! Any help is greatly appreciated!
Im posting this from the Shelby Star, (NC newspaper) Website.. Anyone that can pull any strings let me know.. I have 2 tickets that I would be willing to donate .. but the problem is they will need to be in the Handicapped area..and will probably need 4 tickets so that they can have a person with each them to roll them in and take care of them.
Please read
Or if anyone has any pull at the Dallas Cowboy Public Relations and can get this information to them.. It would be GREATLY appreciated.
original story link http://www.shelbystar.com/portal/ASP/article_new.asp?ID=20050
Brothers’ ‘dream of a lifetime’: See the Cowboys
Alan Jenkins
Star Staff Writer
SHELBY — When the Dallas Cowboys face the Carolina Panthers on Christmas Eve, Tim and Rodney Howard won’t be pulling for the home team.
“The Cowboys are the best!” Tim said.
But Rodney, 38, and Tim, 32, won’t get the chance to attend the game unless someone in the community can help. The two have a degenerative muscle disease, and a minister’s wife is trying to find a way to get them to the game.
“It would be their dream of a lifetime,” Janet Sass said. She and her husband, Dan, lead a church service and Sunday school at Century Care of Shelby, an assisted-living facility for people of all ages.
That’s where they met the brothers.
“The boys have always been Cowboys fans,” Mrs. Sass said. “You can’t talk to them about anything else.”
When the brothers asked Mrs. Sass to pray that they might be able to attend the Dec. 24 game, she said she had to help. So she called the Carolina Panthers.
Officials there told her that tickets for the game were sold out months in advance, Mrs. Sass said. In addition, the brothers would require special handicapped seating.
Now, she’s asking anyone in the community to help the brothers get to the game or, at least, help them meet a Dallas Cowboy.
Tim and Rodney’s mother, Edna Howard, works at Century Care, where her sons live. She said doctors identify their disease as Hallervorden Spatz, a rare condition that affects the muscles. “Their muscles have deteriorated,” Mrs. Howard said.
The boys spend their days confined to wheelchairs. They can barely move and have limited speech capabilities.
“Usually, sufferers don’t live to be grown,” Mrs. Howard said.
The disease doesn’t affect the mind, however. Tim is creative, wanting to write poetry and sermons. He has people write his thoughts down for him, Mrs. Howard said.
Meeting a Dallas Cowboy or seeing the game would be a dream come true for the boys, Mrs. Howard said.
20050 - 11/28/2005 - LN
