Love / Life worth dying !
I like to see and hear real life stories, especially those which involves a sacrifice. Growing up I still look back and see the ways in which my mum and dad sacrificed their life for me and mu sister to grow up. Some people may say that they should have lead their life not thinking about children and that life is not about children but they sure obeyed GOD and taught us what they had to.
Recently I was watching this movie about a 17year old football hero who gave his kidneys for his grandmother. He had an amazing career in front of him but choose to sacrifice that for his grand mom. Was he a Christian ? not sure about that but the act sure was Christian. I then went online to find out if this was a true life history and sure enough it was. But what the movie did not show me was this young man at the age of 25 was shot dead in US. Now grandmother lived to see his loving grandson die. I have posted the incident as reported in an American newspaper.Hope whoever it is that is reading my blog will enjoy it and that life's real face will be seen.
— Daniel Huffman's life was turned into a made-for-television movie because when he was in high school, the football player donated his kidney to his grandmother, saving her life and forever confining him to the sidelines.
Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden, left, helped Daniel Huffman get a scholarship as a sports trainer.
Now his grandmother has lost her hero.
Huffman, 25, was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head Monday at his home in Normal. His family members and friends are questioning why the guy who was known to be happy and courageous is gone.
The McLean County coroner's office said there was no sign of foul play in his death and an inquest will be held at a later date. Huffman's friends are struggling with the possibility that he might have taken his own life.
"There is no answer," Shaun York, who discovered his best friend in a garage, told the Chicago Tribune for a story in Sunday editions. "No one knows why. No one. I've racked my brain ever since. I'm his best friend, just loved him to death and I just don't know."
Huffman, an outgoing defensive tackle on Rossville's high school football team, decided to put away his football gear in 1996 for his grandmother Shirlee Allison, whose diabetes left her seriously ill and in need of a kidney transplant.
She could have waited for a transplant, but Huffman, then 17, did some research and pressed doctors to allow him to be her donor. He loved football, but the sacrifice meant he could no longer play contact sports.
The summer before his senior year Huffman had the surgery, and word spread about the boy from the small town of Rossville, which is about 40 miles east of Champaign.
Sports Illustrated did a story on him. He was honored with a Disney Wide World of Sports Spirit Award, and Florida State University Coach Bobby Bowden gave him a scholarship even though Huffman couldn't play football again. There was also the television movie, "Gift of Love: The Daniel Huffman Story" that starred Elden Henson as Daniel and Debbie Reynolds as his grandmother.
Huffman didn't think of his donation as an act of heroism.
"If you love someone and you can help them, any way you can, you're going to do it," he told The Associated Press in 1999.
Huffman spent three years at Florida State, working as an athletic trainer and later in the sports information office. He moved back to Illinois in 2000 after his grandfather died, and he helped care for his grandmother.
Huffman began working in various security jobs, but every weekend he would visit Allison, take her shopping and wash her laundry. He recently talked of completing his college degree, and dreamed of teaching college English.
"I have a lot of good memories of my grandson," Allison said. "He was always so happy, so fun. He put a lot of joy into everyone's life. He was always doing things for you, making you feel so special."
Recently I was watching this movie about a 17year old football hero who gave his kidneys for his grandmother. He had an amazing career in front of him but choose to sacrifice that for his grand mom. Was he a Christian ? not sure about that but the act sure was Christian. I then went online to find out if this was a true life history and sure enough it was. But what the movie did not show me was this young man at the age of 25 was shot dead in US. Now grandmother lived to see his loving grandson die. I have posted the incident as reported in an American newspaper.Hope whoever it is that is reading my blog will enjoy it and that life's real face will be seen.
— Daniel Huffman's life was turned into a made-for-television movie because when he was in high school, the football player donated his kidney to his grandmother, saving her life and forever confining him to the sidelines.
Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden, left, helped Daniel Huffman get a scholarship as a sports trainer.
Now his grandmother has lost her hero.
Huffman, 25, was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head Monday at his home in Normal. His family members and friends are questioning why the guy who was known to be happy and courageous is gone.
The McLean County coroner's office said there was no sign of foul play in his death and an inquest will be held at a later date. Huffman's friends are struggling with the possibility that he might have taken his own life.
"There is no answer," Shaun York, who discovered his best friend in a garage, told the Chicago Tribune for a story in Sunday editions. "No one knows why. No one. I've racked my brain ever since. I'm his best friend, just loved him to death and I just don't know."
Huffman, an outgoing defensive tackle on Rossville's high school football team, decided to put away his football gear in 1996 for his grandmother Shirlee Allison, whose diabetes left her seriously ill and in need of a kidney transplant.
She could have waited for a transplant, but Huffman, then 17, did some research and pressed doctors to allow him to be her donor. He loved football, but the sacrifice meant he could no longer play contact sports.
The summer before his senior year Huffman had the surgery, and word spread about the boy from the small town of Rossville, which is about 40 miles east of Champaign.
Sports Illustrated did a story on him. He was honored with a Disney Wide World of Sports Spirit Award, and Florida State University Coach Bobby Bowden gave him a scholarship even though Huffman couldn't play football again. There was also the television movie, "Gift of Love: The Daniel Huffman Story" that starred Elden Henson as Daniel and Debbie Reynolds as his grandmother.
Huffman didn't think of his donation as an act of heroism.
"If you love someone and you can help them, any way you can, you're going to do it," he told The Associated Press in 1999.
Huffman spent three years at Florida State, working as an athletic trainer and later in the sports information office. He moved back to Illinois in 2000 after his grandfather died, and he helped care for his grandmother.
Huffman began working in various security jobs, but every weekend he would visit Allison, take her shopping and wash her laundry. He recently talked of completing his college degree, and dreamed of teaching college English.
"I have a lot of good memories of my grandson," Allison said. "He was always so happy, so fun. He put a lot of joy into everyone's life. He was always doing things for you, making you feel so special."
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