Before we went home yesterday, Mike Dunleavy from the Golden State Warriors came to visit the kids in the playroom. Riley was getting psyched to meet a real basketball player and said he wanted to prepare some questions. His first question was going to be "can you dunk"? When I asked him what his second question would be he held up a broken Matchbox car and said "what happened to this wheel Basketball Player"?
As it turned out, Riley was pretty engaged in a puzzle when the entourage showed up. The Warriors mascot sat right down to help Riley with his puzzle. He didn't look up for several minutes until I said "Riley, what's that man wearing?" Mike was a really nice guy, he brought books for the kids and autographed a photo for Riley.
We also posted a bunch of photos taken while we were at the hospital. We don't have pictures from when Riley was on ECMO. We couldn't bring ourselves to take them. In retrospect, we wish we had.
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Friday, April 28, 2006
Photos and a visit from a basketball player
Posted by Ken Norton at 4/28/2006 01:18:00 PM
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That is the cutest question I ever heard. I mean the basketball player *should* know that kinda stuff:)
And I always thing of Mike Dunleavy as "Mike Dunleavy from Duke"....
Y'all are brave for going through those photos. My husband took a ton of photos of Simi's OHS - back in October and I haven't been strong enough to look at them yet.
It's great to hear that Riley is doing well. Is this his final surgery?
This is so cute and so hysterical. Goes to show kids will say the darndest thing and their innocence rocks the world. How awesome for Dunleavy to come visit those kids. Love the photos too, seems like ions since I was there. Love you all, Grammy
Wow, what an undampened spirit--I love it! Congrats to the whole family on getting home--it's great to hear.
-Jason, Cyd, & Audrey
All I can say is woo hoo! We are so glad to have you back home again!! Yeah!
Love, Paul, Lisa and Matthew
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