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November 01, 2006
A Father's Love
There was a very touching story in the October 20, 2006 Washington Post
(''Marathon Dream Team'' by Lyndsey Layton) in which a father bundled
up his deaf and developmentally disabled daughter, strapped her into a
running stroller and pushed her 26.2 miles in the annual Marine Corps
Marathon. It was his way of displaying the love that he had for his
daughter. The father, Tim Mullen, figures this would have been the
year that his 65-pound, 17 year-old daughter, Leah, ran her first
marathon along-side him.
The article says that Mr. Mullen's brother ''came from New Jersey to
pedal alongside them on a bike that towed a trailer stuffed with Leah's
medications, disapers, food, extra clothing and a walkie-talkie.
''Several friends took turns escorting them on the course, jumping on
the route and running for several miles before jumping off. At the
windiest section...where Mullen worried that gusts would make it
difficult to push the stroller, four friends ran with him and formed
a windshield.
''Dozens of family members and friends, including babysitters and
teaching aides and therapists...cheered them from the road.''
There is something wonderful about how a community of
family and friends facilitated this father's goal of ''running'' with
his daughter. There is something wonderful about how this father
wanted to take his daughter with him on his marathon dream.
What do you think?
Posted by billz at November 1, 2006 09:37 AM
