Lauren Hill story

I get that leeriness. I don't particularly like stories that glorify people with any illness simply for going through it (and all the kids I work with are damn tough for simply getting themselves out of bed everyday, but they can also be bratty, snotty, spoiled rotten and everything in between), and I don't particularly love ones that portray anyone who battles an illness as particularly brave. I really hate the ones that imply fighting hard is why someone survived - you can fight as damn hard as you want against DIPG and still gain almost no survival time. That trope implies people who die somehow didn't fight hard enough, and that's ludicrous.

But in this particular case, Hill was using her story as a platform to raise research dollars for a disease in desperate need of a breakthrough. Her message (and Devon Still's, for that matter) is concentrated on the need for research funding rather than the need for a patient/family to have internal strength of character. There have been lots of breakthroughs in some cancer treatment, but not for DIPG (5-year survival essentially zero) and not really for high-risk neuroblastoma (5-year survival rate 40-50 percent, essentially nil if refractory or relapsed). And those are problems you necessarily have to throw money at to solve.

Also for the record, I am a ma'am. But I also adore FNL and know the username is not all that clear, so worries, hondo.

 

To the question you deleted, if not being bothered by a nice moment for a dying teenager makes me superior, then yes, I need to share my special gift.

 

Obviously. I wanted not to embarrass you publicly like you tried to do with Dick, but you seem to cherish the crown.

 

She said she'd rather starve than have white people watch her make a layup, but they cut away from her just before that.

 

Which one of us are you agreeing with?

 

Funny, I hadn't seen the #Layup4Lauren Challenge and thought about starting something like it, with the exact premise: spin and do a layup, though I would have spun 10 times and done 3 layups (2 for Lauren's 4 points) and 1 for research.

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/blogs/2014/10/29/becky-hammon-takes-layup4lauren-challenge-for-lauren-hill/18125905/

 

Morris or Bumgarner?

 

#ResearchAndStuff

 

<panting and sweating> I think you ... you're ... uh ... you're onto something, LTL <panting and sweating>

 

No, just preserving the historical record as some like to alter it post hoc.
I know that from my own rodeos with some of the participants.

 

Your friend Lippman, the No. 1 offender, isn't on this thread. So nothing to worry about.

Why don't you preserve his posts? He alters at least 99 percent of them.