Super Baby!

When my brothers and my sister and I were little we were a bit ferrel, my mother and dad would be at work and we would find some trouble to get in to. One day my brother David, sister Sherry and I wanted to show Rick that he could fly so we tied a sheet around his neck and took him to the top of the stair and said "Super Baby Fly" and Rick jumped (because the poor guy trusted us) and landed in a heap at the bottom of the stairs.

We tortured him on a regular basis for most of his childhood. He was the one with all the good looks, charm, etc. He played football, got a football scholarship to University of Redlands in CA. When he was about 19 he got Hodgekin's Disease and we were told after his treatment he would never have children. Scott is a sophomore at a University in AZ, Julia is an accomplished singer, actress, dancer and Ben is brilliant and talented in his own right - I guess they were wrong.

He made it through his bout with cancer, snapping both of his Achilles tendons, deciding to (with his wife Cheryl) become the owners of an Willowbrook Apple Orchard and teach full time and part-time professor of Kinesiology at the University of Riverside.

 

Rick is great, he' always ready to laugh, make a joke, watch sports, talk about sports, ride his tractor and be with his family. He has had a cough for a long time, they thought it was pneumonia initially, this week he got the bad news that he has lung cancer. This is just the preliminary diagnosis, more to come after the PET scan.

This is the website to his orchard

http://willowbrookapple.tripod.com/

Love ya Rick.