We’ve blogged before about Dick and Rick Hoyt – a father and son triathlon/marathon team – son Rick has cerebral palsy:
When Rick Hoyt was 15, he communicated something to his father that changed both their lives. "Dad," the mute quadriplegic wrote in his computer after his father pushed him in a wheelchair in a five-kilometer race, "I felt like I wasn’t handicapped."
Rick, now 37, has had cerebral palsy since birth. But he has always been treated simply as one of the family, included by his now-divorced parents in almost everything brothers Rob and Russell did.
"They told us to put Rick away, in an institution, (because) he’s going to be nothing but a vegetable for the rest of his life," his father remembers.
"We said, ‘No, we’re not going to do that. We’re going to bring Rick home and bring him up like any other child,’" says Dick Hoyt, 59, a retired lieutenant colonel with the Air National Guard. "And this is what we have done."
And how.
Now- a video. Watch. Have tissues ready. Be inspired to love – deeper.
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