Hope

     This week for the blog post on hope, I found an article from the American Cancer Society about a just out of college third grade teacher who acquired a type of bone cancer when he was just seventeen years old.

     Craig King teaches, a third grade teacher, was an avid basketball and baseball player when he found out that he had cancer in his knee, and that he might even have to have his leg amputated. During his chemotherapy, he had his shin replaced with another donated shin so that he would be able to start walking again. It took him well over a year to walk again; he started on a wheelchair, then to a brace, then a walker, and then finally on his feet. After attending college he helped start a fundraiser with his family that received over $5,000 dollars for one fundraiser. He always lets his class that he has had cancer and that even these kinds of setbacks should never stop you from reaching your goal.

     I think this can relate to Nectar in a  Sieve because, just like Puli, Craig never let his "disability" stop him from doing things that people do every single day.

"A Career Back on track, Despite Bone Cancer." American Cancer Society. 14 Feb. 2007. ACS. 17 Feb. 2009 http://www.cancer.org/docroot/FPS/content/FPS_1_A_Career_Back_on_Track_Despite_Bone_Cancer.asp?SiteArea=.