I found out how to fix my blurry screen. Thanks, SandRat, for the ping.
Posted on 05/24/2005 5:07:15 PM PDT by UncleHambone
When Amy McKenzie was 4 years old, she began to lose her ability to hear and to speak. She learned sign language to communicate with her parents, Jenny and McNeil McKenzie, but she didn't have to use it to let her parents know how much she loved automobile racing.
Her parents are both racing fans — McNeil raced for many years at Sumter Speedway — and it was something that came naturally to her. Along with the dirt-track racing, Amy is a NASCAR fan as well. She had an affinity for the late Dale Earnhardt and that grew to include Dale Earnhardt Jr. when he joined the then Winston Cup Series.
"She would sign that Dale Jr. was cute," Jenny McKenzie said of her daughter.
Amy can't sign to her mother now about how good-looking she thinks Junior is. A near-death experience in which she had a stroke and was found to have a fatal disease called mitochondrial encephalopathy robbed the 19-year-old Amy of that. Even after 10 weeks in the hospital, what it didn't take from Amy was her ability to show happiness through her smile, and she wore a big one on the afternoon of Saturday, May 7.
What started as a family friend making some telephone calls to some local businesses ended up with Amy McKenzie and her parents traveling to Darlington in an ambulance to meet Earnhardt Jr. at Darlington Raceway just a few hours prior to the Dodge Charger 500.
"When he first came in, her mouth was open and her eyes were real big," Jenny McKenzie said of Amy's reaction when Earnhardt Jr. entered the ambulance. "When he walked in, it was almost like she was in shock.
"It meant a lot to her, though. It really made her day."
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Amy receives her nutrition through a feeding tube as well as her medicines because of her inability to chew. She is able to drink by mouth. Amy is on nine different medications, including three seizure medications. Three different types of feeding tubes were used before one was found that suited her.
"She's alert. She knows everything going on around her," Jenny said. "It has not affected her mind or swallowing ability."
Junior Ping!!!!
Awwww Pingeroooski
sniffle, sniffle, somethings wrong with my pc screen it's all blurry.
Jr. nothing but class a real down home guy.ping ping ping
Now, how about admitting you were wrong, so you can get your old crew chief back and win a damn race this season?
FR acting up... was doing that here too.
"Somethings wrong with my pc screen it's all blurry."
FR acting up... was doing that here too.
(Here too, must be contagious)
and I am not a Nascar fan
Good to have you back!!!!!!!!!!!
hahahaha!! Lol! Seriously! Come Back Tony!! Us Junior fans is sorry!!!
ping
I found out how to fix my blurry screen. Thanks, SandRat, for the ping.
ummmmm..... got the giant man size box? I've used that little box up and now the key board is wet from the kleenex being water logged.
According to Jayski, Pete Rondeau is out and Steve Hmiel is the new "interim" Crew Chief on the 8.
SandRat,Bump.
Don't know, one good thing has come out of this. It's shown that even with a good crew, just how sorry Darrell's little brother actually is
Thanks for the ping!
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