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Get well Manute. If I had a third kidney I'd let you have it for all your unselfish acts you do to help others in need.
Good list but the 2 that stick out personally for me is Dikembe and David. Those 2 are the classiest of the class.
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Get well Manute. If I had a third kidney I'd let you have it for all your unselfish acts you do to help others in need.
With all things said Manute is the classiest of all. He gave his money to charity when he was practically broke, that's a damn good man
Good list but the 2 that stick out personally for me is Dikembe and David. Those 2 are the classiest of the class.. Hope he gets better.
With all things said Manute is the classiest of all. He gave his money to charity when he was practically broke, that's a damn good man
Your right. Men like this are what all should strive to be.
Bol doing better
Former NBA player Manute Bol has started to show some progress after one week in a hospital in Northern Virginia. So says friend Tom Pritchard, who has worked with the 7-foot-7 Bol in trying to promote reconciliation between Christians and Muslims in war-ravaged Sudan.
Bol was hospitalized on May 18 after falling critically with severe kidney trouble and a painful skin condition called Stevens-Johnson Syndrome.
“He is doing a little better,” Pritchard, the founder of NGO Sudan Sunrise, said. “He is receiving dialysis treatments, and they are treating the Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, which is causing his skin still to itch terribly. He has been transferred out of Intensive Care, and is beginning to eat a little.”
Bol, who has been riddled with health problems ever since a car accident in 2004, had spent the last few months in his home country in order to build a school in conjunction with Sudan Sunrise and help tackle corruption with election appearances upon the president’s request.
The former player of Washington, Golden State, Philadelphia and Miami, considered the tallest in NBA history, has received hundreds of get-well messages on Facebook that will be printed and passed to him.
“The outpouring of love and encouragement from his fans around the world has been wonderful,” Pritchard said.
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Good to know.
There is guardedly good news on Manute Bol, who has been hospitalized for several weeks in Virginia after suffering from kidney failure and a skin condition, Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, that almost killed him. Bol had two more operations last week to remove both his gall bladder and a gallstone, and to stem some bleeding. As of late last week, his condition had stabilized and his life was not at risk.
"He's still in the hospital in Charlottesville and still has not completed his trip home. So he's had a heck of an ordeal," said the Rev. Tom Pritchard, the executive director of Sudan Sunrise, an organization that is trying to reconcile some of the longtime warring factions in Bol's native Sudan.
Bol's kidneys, Pritchard said, are now working. But because the 7-foot-7 former center for the 76ers, Wizards, Warriors and Heat has been bedridden for a month, he's lost a lot of strength, and doctors haven't been able to get him up and walking because he's had so many operations.
Bol was in the Sudan for yet another months-long trip when he fell ill. He's been trying to build a primary school in his home city of Turalei, with an ultimate goal of building 41 schools in Sudan. The idea is that the schools will be open to all children, regardless of their religion or tribe. Pritchard said 250 members of Bol's Dinka tribe family have been murdered over the years, but Bol's schools will accept even those whose fellow sect members were involved in some of the killings.
He also supported a young Sudanese politician who wanted to make improvements.
"It's been a wonderful example of reconciliation," Pritchard said. "He wants to do this all over. It's something that Sudan desperately needs. It has some of the highest illiteracy in the world. He was in Sudan for the schools but he really stayed because of the election in April. The president of southern Sudan asked him please to stay. He is revered by the southern Sudanese ... when Manute got back to the states he said 'we did it.' He kind of felt putting his own life on the line was worth it, because he got the result he was looking for in the election."
Bol is still trying to raise $18,000 to put a roof on the school under construction in Turalei.
"Right now we have one building with three classrooms done, and the rainy season's upon us," Pritchard said. "It's not going to destroy it, but it's of no use during this rainy season, which is heartbreaking."
There is a Facebook page for those who'd like to wish Bol well in his recovery, and the link to Sudan Sunrise is here. It would be a strong gesture for all that Bol has done, both during his playing days and since, to help Sudan, if some of his former NBA teammates and current NBA players and officials dug into their vast pockets and paid off that $18K for the roof. That's per diem money, folks.
http://www.nba.com/2010/news/feature...s=iref:nbahpt1
Get well Manute
Hang in there my friend.
Praying that you pull out of it.
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