One Amazing Father Finishes A Triathlon…Carrying His Daughter With Cerebral Palsy Across The Finish

[dipsydoodle]

One father, Rick van Beek, completed a triathlon while carrying his 13-year-old daughter, Madison, who has cerebral palsy. Maddy cannot walk or talk, so he carried her across land and through water so that she could complete the event, too.

“She functions like a three-month-old, and one of the very few things that we know she enjoys is being outside, being in the water, feeling the breeze in her hair and in her face.” van Beek told the Midland Daily News.

http://thebertshow.com/one-amazing-father-finishes-a-triathlon-carrying-his-daughter-with-cerebral-palsy-across-the-finish-line/

[DrDan]

1. this guy is a real hero

[malaise]

2. Lovely

Great dad

[mythology]

3. Amazing is right.

This is the sort of person who makes me want to both be a better person and to be less cynical about our species.