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r , i 1-.' Reporter shares lessons of concern, ' • " ' . , ' 7 caring; learned from leukemia death V 1 , * • - , "< 1 '• by Cliff Wan) ***? a week after celebrating his toyWrfperiod tai tate simmer when I interviewed him and hie S '̂JSSSSi^Sli ?I? S^aw "TFr®f Prew newspaper in Elgin. JBS SSk**1 leukemia when he was 11. After the usual ^SS^«iv1J^UfSS^iK^®Jchemoth?r̂ >y' which also has the ^tSSfi£»UW CaU8tng y°ur hair to fall out, his disease HQs leukemia, however, became active again tf»i« year and dogondecided a bone marrow transplant was his only hope. But |80,000 stood between that chance and Mike. The family depended on a As I look back on those goals, they are fairly simple-he wanted to live. Of all those dreams, only the most insignificant, of another year, was realized. is perhaps the most tragic of -- i e was mostly gone and the transplant <k massive community effort to raise the money. As I wrote my story, the first of many about Mike I doubted the of time. After were that many I was wrong Tbedaybefoi aft two Elgin banks, had Mike imc When I CTjoys^thinking of his own mortality, His goals were not those of an average teenager; he did not aspire to be a rock singer, a lawyer, or to own a Cadillac. Mike wanted to turn 18, he wanted to graduate from high school, get married to the girl that he hadn't met yet and raise a family with her, and perhaps attend a special school for mechanics near Chicago. - ---- '• •**•*©• CJ tl* •8Lb^0rthfudi!f ^ Michael Gorniak Fund, established jHgin banks, had topped the $100,000 mark. Mike_impre8sed me during the brief time I spent with Urn. asted him what would happen if he didn't get a he looked me squarely in the eye and said simply: but Mike the Afc fe i all deaths. Can a lesson be learned from a death, especially this death? If anything, the obvious lesson is death is not fair. Mike's mother Dorothea lost her husband in an auto accident two years Igo. She now has lost her only son. • I spoke with Dorothea on a number of occasions about Mike. She reveled in his small victories over the infections and illnesses that plagued his last few weeks after his transplant, her voice expressing maternal optimism in our phone conservations. Eventually, it was complications from the transplant, not the disease itself, that killed Mike. * • . y " Dorothea has relied on friends and her faith in God to sustain her, and I was impressed also by her strength of character. I would be an emotional cripple in her shoes, and I hope those friends and that faith will again help her. 2 Perhaps Mike Gorniak taught us one thing before he became the latest victim of a cruel disease that primarily takes the young, and that lessbn is 'people do care. An army of people, only a handful of whom knew him personally, banded together for Mike's fight. They raised money to pay enormous hospttal bills in a few scant weeks and they hung on every word in the newspapers about his condition. I'm sure many of them prayed for linn. Thursday, they all read his obituary. A few months ago, I would not have believed a skinny teenager from Elgin could nave inspired such a widespread outpouring of sympathy, support and love. But Mike struck that common thread that runs through all us. Mike's promise remained unfulfilled, but I'm aure ne will be remembered. SECTION |. PACE 13 - PI/4INDEALEW - WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER M. ISH ^SSgeneral m News 7. Urge farmers to consider set-aside acre tillage > Wonder Lake American Lagion Pott 1169 E. Wonder Lake Road, Wonder Lake. IL Invites you to o HALLOWEEN WEEKEND PARTY Octobor 29 and October M Prom 7 P.M. to Closing, The Original Band "EQUATIONS" Country - Rock CeifumM Optional Mim For UiiMt, Most Unusual OAMCS - POOD - FUN! 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