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http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/...st-cheap-seats
Dwight Howard provides dying woman with bucket of memories
Kay Kellogg, who has Stage 3 Multiple Myeloma, had only one thing on her bucket list: meet Dwight Howard
Her bucket list included just one item.
Kay Kellogg didn't want to climb the Eiffel Tower. Or run a marathon. Or jump out of an airplane. She just wanted to have a nice conversation with her hero.
" Dwight Howard is just such a precious, wonderful kid," she says. "Whenever I watch him play, he just makes me feel good inside."
And for a woman who feels so bad inside most of the time, this is quite an accomplishment for Dwight.
You think leading the league in rebounding and blocked shots is difficult? Try leading the cancer ward in smiles elicited and hearts warmed.
Kay, 62, is sitting at her apartment Tuesday telling her story.
She's just finished yet another round of chemo. In her younger days, she was a ballet dancer, gracefully spinning and twirling as the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker. Now, she slowly gets around with a walker.
She has Stage 3 Multiple Myeloma, an aggressive cancer that searches out and destroys the blood plasma in the bone marrow. Her disease is inoperable and incurable, but her demeanor is inspiriting and uplifting.
She lives on a fixed income, but two seasons ago she decided to treat herself to Magic season tickets in the upper level. Watching Dwight play is one of the joys of her life. She showed up at nearly every game that season wearing her blue No. 12 Dwight jersey.
"I was sitting way up in the cheap seats," she says, "but I felt like I was in heaven."
A few weeks ago, her daughter, Arian Clute, had an idea. She contacted the Magic and told them that her mother had but one wish before she died: She wanted to meet Dwight.
And, so, a few days ago, Dwight showed up at her door step. He was supposed to spend 30 minutes and ended up staying nearly two hours.
"He has become my 7- foot-tall bottle of medicine," Kay says
They laughed and talked and talked and laughed.
They talked about love and life — and death and divinity. She told him how she was in show business her whole life and loves basketball. He told her how he's been in basketball his whole life and loves show business.
They compared the sizes of their hands and then Dwight gently grabbed her bare foot from the end of a recliner like Prince Charming grabbing Cinderella's. He looked down and said sweetly, "How can this little foot hold up anyone?"
They busted out laughing.
And then he asked her why — why is he the only one on her bucket list?
She looked at him and said, "Because some people get a choir that sings them into heaven and some people get a chariot that rolls them into heaven. Not me. I want to be slam-dunked smack, dab into the middle of heaven by Dwight Howard."
They busted out laughing again.
By the time the visit was over, Dwight was affectionately calling her "Mama Kay" and she was lovingly calling him "My Dwight."
It was the strangest thing, according to those who were there. Dwight was supposed to inspire her, but she ended up inspiring him, too. Her bucket list turned into the most meaningful bucket he's ever recorded.
When she gingerly stood up to say goodbye, he bent way, way down, hugged her hard and told her something startling. He told this 4-foot-11 woman who is dying of cancer, "You are taller than me."
"That's the silliest thing I've ever heard," she said.
"No," Dwight insisted, "you are taller than me because your spirit lifts you up."
Kay Kellogg was once a dancer and singer who entertained people worldwide. She once danced at Radio City Music Hall and performed with Bing Crosby, who once sang "I'm dreaming of a White Christmas."
Kay got something better last week. She got a Dwight Christmas — four months early.
"I'm not afraid to die," she says. "I've had a great life with great friends, a great job and I raised two great daughters. And now that I've met my Dwight, what more is there?"
Well, there is one thing.
She smiles.
"I told Dwight to say a prayer so that I'm around long enough to see him play on opening night."
DH!
still the most fake nba poster boy
I've always liked Dwight every since the Kobe baptism...humility and respect is this guys character...He's the one guy I would trade Bynum and Odom for...
Do It Mitch!!! -- I can really see this happening...Another gift to LA...and may god bless this little lady...
and what have you done to help others but wipe your ass....even if that...
Dwight to LA for Bynum and Odom...
Do IT MITCH!!!
Why would he want to carry a declining Kobe?Sweet story, she just better not get her hopes high on a le.
Howard will be in LA in two years... sorry yall.
Shut up you er
actually he'll be subservient just like his views...and what are his views of Kobe...they mimic none other than an out of body religious experience.
now to answer your question as you posed it you must do exactly as I ask...you can watch the whole video if you like but it's absolutely imperative that if you do nothing else you turn your volume way up and start watching specifically at the 2:35 mark.
I know Koolaid is a mutha er!!! But yep he'll be in LA!!!
Howard might not live up to his squeaky clean carefully constructed image in real life, but he made a difference for that lady. That is something special no matter what else he does or doesn't do.
No he won'tactually he'll be subservient just like his views...and what are his views of Kobe...they mimic none other than an out of body religious experience.
now to answer your question as you posed it you must do exactly as I ask...you can watch the whole video if you like but it's absolutely imperative that if you do nothing else you turn your volume way up and start watching specifically at the 2:35 mark.
I know Koolaid is a mutha er!!! But yep he'll be in LA!!!
No he won't
lame come back bro....I must have hit a nerve in that ass....
you can't refute the man in his own words...he stopped just short of saying I want to join LA and play with Kobe....I've never seen such a reverence for an opposing player...(except the video I posted of Chris Paul sly smiling at Lebron's ass)..
Dwight even swayed from side to side in slow motion to the image of Kobe on the court...it was as if Kobe was ing him...he was dreaming of it...To be honest I've never seen such player reverence by another player in my life...
Ahhh, the typical Koolaids man post..lame come back bro....I must have hit a nerve in that ass....
you can't refute the man in his own words...he stopped just short of saying I want to join LA and play with Kobe....I've never seen such a reverence for an opposing player...(except the video I posted of Chris Paul sly smiling at Lebron's ass)..
Dwight even swayed from side to side in slow motion to the image of Kobe on the court...it was as if Kobe was ing him...he was dreaming of it...To be honest I've never seen such player reverence by another player in my life...
Last edited by HarlemHeat37; 09-08-2010 at 06:46 PM.
I posted this before but your boy is suspect...and Chris Paul is openly a for Lebron...check it out again...He's getting a good look at Lebron's ass:
Watch how Kobe distances himself from this activity...
Kobe was probably looking for cook
How do you know exactly what " s in the pen" love?
Now tell us Kool how many does Kobe in comparison to the others you named?lame come back bro....I must have hit a nerve in that ass....
you can't refute the man in his own words...he stopped just short of saying I want to join LA and play with Kobe....I've never seen such a reverence for an opposing player...(except the video I posted of Chris Paul sly smiling at Lebron's ass)..
Dwight even swayed from side to side in slow motion to the image of Kobe on the court...it was as if Kobe was ing him...he was dreaming of it...To be honest I've never seen such player reverence by another player in my life...
She'll be long dead before thatSweet story, she just better not get her hopes high on a le.
Howard will be in LA in two years... sorry yall.
Train, gettin' his callousness on. I always think you're mired in milquetoast and then lo & behold you drop the hammer out of the blue.
My grandmother died from stage 3 MM @ the same age...really aggressive cancer...
Nice story.
Actually donating monthly a bigger part of my income than Dwight Howard for sure and visiting regulary a childrens ins ution in a favela in brazil.
Next try er.
But for the butthurt people: Yes, nice from him. And still fake with all the other pre NBA/rookie year stuff.
What did you want him to do?
She wanted to meet him before she died and he went.
Its nice, its lovely but why the they (Magic PR department, agent, whoever) have to make all this stuff public?
Let him go there, do something good, no need to talk about or releasing a media statement...thats the things i hate.
- settling before allready a timeline of the visit is lovely too.He was supposed to spend 30 minutes
Usually people want to keep track of their team or what their favourite players are up to. I know this is unimportant news but we all can't operate in secrecy. Not like this is making headlines or anything.
Maybe this will compel people to commit more humane acts
What would you say is an appropriate time-line to visit someone?
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