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Life is short and so many of the best seem to be taken far too young. 
We can only hope for some greater cause.
Laney

rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> On a serious note. I had a student who was an *amazing* skater...as in
> one of those kids who goes flying down the sidewalk, leaps up, rides the
> handrail, leaps across to the other hand rail on the other side, turns a
> few times and jumps off the side of the retainer wall the handrail was
> above and lands skating backwards 1 story down. He was also a movie
> maker...carried a camera everywhere, filmed other skaters and had them
> film him. He won a city wide movie contest last year. He also taught me
> how to use a movie making program so his number is at the top of my
> cellphone directory for tech help. May 23 he was on the 5th floor of an
> abandoned building taking photos with a new camera and stepped onto a
> piece of corrugated fiberglass roofing laying on the floor, only it
> wasn't laying on the floor it was laying over a 5 story abandoned
> elevator shaft. He fell five stories and landed on some boards which kept
> him from going down to the basement. He had a compound fracture of the
> femur but otherwise  hardly had a scratch on him. However, he has been in
> a coma for 32 days now. He'll never walk again, can only hope he's not
> paralized from the neck down. Crushed his C-5 which was replaced with
> metal and totally dislocated a lower vertabrae which is now braced with a
> rod. All these years I've been on his case about how dangerous his
> *skating* was, and he gets hurt taking pictures! I watched a video of him
> today doing all those amazing things, then read the update on the website
> they set up for him describing the tremendous news that he licked a
> lollipop on command yesterday. The moral is, live while you can. Every
> day's a gift. Asher and I had really hit it off because we both had
> hobbies we were obsessed with. He was more like us than most.
>
> Prayer is a huge part of Asher's recovery effort and I invite any of you
> who have the urge to visit http://asher.chattablogs.com Asher's dad has
> been very specific in his request for prayer each day and it's one of the
> best uses of the net I've come across so far. 
>
> Thanks,
> Angie
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