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per STrib:
Ben Utecht and Rhys Lloyd, friends since both were on the University of Minnesota football team, were chatting about a surprise party that Utecht’s wife threw for his 30th birthday. After the party, the Utechts and the Lloyds had spent three days relaxing in a cabin.
Lloyd had fond memories of that weekend.
Utecht had no memories at all.
“My heart sank into my stomach,” Lloyd said from Florida, where the former Gophers kicker is the director of coaching at a soccer academy. “Here was my best friend — the best man at my wedding — and he couldn’t remember a thing. … It scared me.”
Utecht, a star at the U who played for the Indianapolis Colts team that won the Super Bowl in 2007, suffered multiple concussions during his playing career.
Those concussions are eating away at his memory, but he’s fighting back by taking part in a rigorous, innovative treatment that could stem that loss. Still, as the father of four daughters under age 8, he’s worried that when they’ll need his advice, he won’t be able to remember what to tell them. Or worse — he might not even remember them.
http://www.startribune.com/after-co...-ben-utecht-fights-not-to-forget/397018481/#1
Go Gophers!!
Ben Utecht and Rhys Lloyd, friends since both were on the University of Minnesota football team, were chatting about a surprise party that Utecht’s wife threw for his 30th birthday. After the party, the Utechts and the Lloyds had spent three days relaxing in a cabin.
Lloyd had fond memories of that weekend.
Utecht had no memories at all.
“My heart sank into my stomach,” Lloyd said from Florida, where the former Gophers kicker is the director of coaching at a soccer academy. “Here was my best friend — the best man at my wedding — and he couldn’t remember a thing. … It scared me.”
Utecht, a star at the U who played for the Indianapolis Colts team that won the Super Bowl in 2007, suffered multiple concussions during his playing career.
Those concussions are eating away at his memory, but he’s fighting back by taking part in a rigorous, innovative treatment that could stem that loss. Still, as the father of four daughters under age 8, he’s worried that when they’ll need his advice, he won’t be able to remember what to tell them. Or worse — he might not even remember them.
http://www.startribune.com/after-co...-ben-utecht-fights-not-to-forget/397018481/#1
Go Gophers!!