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Going For the Gold
By Tom Lambke
I was twenty-six years old when I became a father. My wife, Karen, and I had been married over four years and we were excited to be starting our family. Like most fathers, I was hoping for a boy to share my love of sports, but also hoping for him to have ten fingers and ten toes. As I watched the doctor deliver our son, I noticed our baby's eyes looked different. They seemed to have a slight almond shape. I immediately realized our son may have Down syndrome. Among many other questions racing through my brain, I wondered, "Who will I play baseball with?" I could not have possibly predicted that our son, Bryan, would grow up to be a young man who enjoys playing EVERY sport, except baseball!
Yes, Bryan was born with Down syndrome, and Karen and I really had no clue what to do. There was no Internet. The library only had a couple of books, both written by doctors in a way that was not useful to us. So we decided to do what we thought was best for Bryan: raise him as if he was a "normal" baby. By the end of our first year together, I still had many unanswered questions about Down syndrome. To make matters worse, Bryan needed heart surgery, and I was worried about the possible outcome. But on the day of his procedure, just before the doctors wheeled him away, he looked up at me and said his first word: dada. I knew then we had a fighter and that everything would be fine.
As Bryan got older, his interest in sports became obvious to us. He enjoyed running and throwing the ball around. So when he turned eight, we got him started in Special Olympics. He ran the 50 meter dash, 200 meter relay run and did the softball throw. When we took Bry to his first practice, I was the one who was nervous. We had no idea how well he would take to competitive sports and having coaches tell him what to do. But once again, he proved to be a resilient young man and adjusted well to his new friends and mentors. In the nineteen years he has been participating, he has now also competed in basketball, bowling, swimming, dragon boat racing, kayaking and Challenger baseball. He has excelled at each except baseball, and has won numerous medals and ribbons.
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