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twinsfan -> RE: Players and prospects III (6/26/2017 11:36:39 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Mr. Ed
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ORIGINAL: twinsfan
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ORIGINAL: sixthwi
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ORIGINAL: Mr. Ed
Waived
Rafael Valera, Daniel Kihle and Trey Vavra
NOOOOO! Not Vavra!!!!
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Is that the good Vavra brother?
No, he's still playing at the U
It was Tanner (the Vandy kid) I was thinking of.
Quite a story. I knew he had a bad eye, but didn't realize it was from a fishing accident at Age 3. That had to be a tough thing for a family to go thru.
The Vavra family was on a fishing trip in Washington. Tanner was 3 and standing next to his father. Trey was an infant and being held by their mother.
"You've got to listen to your parents," Tanner Vavra said. "There's a reason why. I was told to keep my two fingers in my dad's belt loop. My mom and my brother Trey were by the car. I decided that I needed to go back to them. Without telling my dad or even looking at what he was doing, I took off running."
The hook from dad's cast caught Tanner in that right eye.
"You know, my dad saved my eye, too," Tanner Vavra said. "He saved it by stopping the blood and by getting cold water on it and taking me to the hospital. I don't know what would have happened had he not stopped the bleeding."
And so began a series of four surgeries and a protocol of patching the good, left eye in order to strengthen the bad one. Tanner had to leave the patch on for all but one hour a day. He did this for almost seven years. The vision in the right eye improved to 20/25, but almost as soon as doctors told him to abandon the patch, he had the football collision and lost all vision in the right eye. He can sense changes in light in that eye, but he "can't see the big 'E' on the eye chart."
Tanner Vavra cannot remember what it was like to see out of both eyes. He called that a blessing.
"I remember running into a lot of walls when I was patching my good eye," he said. "And I remember what it's like to see out of that other eye. But I don't remember what it was like to see out of both eyes, because I had the patch on. And when I took the patch off, everything was so clear in my other eye.
"It's a blessing that I don't remember what it's like to see with two eyes, probably. Who knows? If I could remember what it was like to see with both eyes, maybe it would be tougher for me."
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