From Deseret News archives:
Before and after: Athlete learned to live while dying of cancer
It doesn't care if you're 6-foot-4, 195 pounds, or that you're sculpted like Adonis. It doesn't care that you've abstained from smoking, drinking, drugs, even pop or candy. It doesn't care if you're only 37.
It doesn't care if you're David Draney, and you're all of the above, plus a former national-class decathlete from Brigham Young University, a schoolteacher, a father of two, a husband to Carol.
Where does a story about Draney start the beginning or the end? With the living or the dying? The before or the after?
Here's what people who knew Draney say: that he believed he really didn't learn to live until he was dying. After surgeons removed his leg, while they were chipping away at parts of that body he had worked so hard to perfect, he hit his stride.
Right now David isn't doing too well. He had another bowel obstruction due to his cancer. . . . So Saturday he had surgery (number 20) to place a tube into his stomach. The tube comes out of his front left side just below the ribs. Since he won't be getting any nutrients from eating, he is getting his nutrition through his (IV). We are hoping he will make it through the holidays. Carol
Recent comments
What a wonderful story..... my son is 20, we have been dealing with...
Carolanne McClelland | May 7, 2009 at 5:11 p.m.
I taught school in Star Valley, WY for nearly 18 years. Carol Draney...
Bari Olson | Oct. 17, 2008 at 10:30 a.m.
I trained with Dave at BYU in the early 90's teaching him the pole...
David Brannan | July 13, 2008 at 1:57 a.m.
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