A dance with hope/ Memorable night makes Avs' Podein youth fund- raiser

From: The Gazette | Date: January 23, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

DENVER - When Brian gets excited, he moves. Really moves. His hands flutter, his legs shake, his head nods. Even with the wheelchair, it looks like he's dancing.

Brian's disease takes the motor skills, one by one. In the end, ataxia doesn't let its victims walk, talk, rub elbows or shake hands. And it surely doesn't let them dance.

Maybe Brian is just special. Jessica, too. And all the other kids who know they'll eventually die from ataxia but groove in their wheelchairs, anyway. This is how they court life. They get jiggy with it.

That's what drew Colorado Avalanche forward Shjon Podein.

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