Damn the Goat Bill Jim Kelly :to:

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http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/1...rback-jim-kelly-patiently-endures-cancer-loss

He's in 24-hour pain. He can't feel the skin on the left half of his face. He says his lip feels like it's constantly on fire. He has had his upper left jaw removed and all but two of his teeth -- and those two have had six root canals. He admits he hasn't been able to sleep in years without taking something.

"I honestly can't remember Jim sleeping through the night," says his wife, Jill. "I'm not sure he ever has."

Kelly carries around more hardware than a Home Depot. His back has two plates and 10 screws in it. His neck has a plate and six screws. He just had double hernia surgery. One day, he had to have a cyst removed under his nostril without Novocain. "I think they heard me three office buildings over," he says.


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man, that's sad. I was trying to remember last time I saw him. Maybe at the HOF ceremony.

This was 2009. I guess he's gotten really bad ever since then :sad:
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i heard about this on the radio the other day... they said his cancer came back, i never knew he went through this once before.


Thats my quarterback.
 

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Kelly devoted much of his post-football life to his son, Hunter James Kelly, who was diagnosed with globoid-cell leukodystrophy (Krabbe disease) shortly after his birth on February 14, 1997. Hunter died as a result of this disease on August 5, 2005, at the age of 8. This loss deeply affected Kelly.

When Kelly was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2002, he dedicated his speech to Hunter. "It's been written that the trademark of my career was toughness," he said as he choked back tears. "The toughest person I ever met in my life was my hero, my soldier, my son, Hunter. I love you, buddy."
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I just saw his picture in mmqb he looks horrible :sadbron:

And no he didn't smoke or chew tobacco
 
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