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MMQB write up on Rivera

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Focus is on his illness and how that experience has changed him.  Good read.  Whatever you think about him as an HC...he is a very good person.  I wish him the best.

https://www.si.com/nfl/2021/08/16/mmqb-ron-rivera-covid-vaccines-joe-burrow-brandon-staley

Interesting point regarding one of the vital parts of his cancer treatment:

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Think about this, there’s only 33 proton therapy machines in the United States. And three of them are in that area—Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and Nova in Fairfax. There’s three of them, and there’s not one in North Carolina, there’s not one in Northern California. My hometown, there’s not even one close.”

So if he were still with the Panthers, or back home, he’d have needed to go away for seven weeks to get the treatment. Doable? Sure. But coaching would’ve been impossible.

“I’ve always felt like, and Stephanie says it, we’re here for a reason,” Rivera continued.

 

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4 minutes ago, DJ feed me moore said:

Glad Riverboat had access to the best doctors and medical advisers in the world. At the same time its sad too see how your treatment for cancer can be different depending what machines are close enough to you.

And $$$$$ makes a big difference difference.


 

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Rivera said. “I’ve sensed and feel like I speak up a little bit more on some things. Like the medical issue—to me, it’s the craziest thing that we’re the richest country in the world and we don’t have affordable health care for everybody, that we have a health-care system that’s broken, that I got denied proton therapy [for my cancer] initially.

“Thank goodness our owner and my doctors advocated for this treatment, specifically.

 

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Ron will always be a better man that coach.  He was a really good coach, and had teams that had his back.

I have so much love for Rivera the person.  Yeah, it got to a point where he was done here, and that's OK.  I wish him nothing but the best in life, and loses to the Panthers.

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