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Steelers' Holmes spreading the message

Posted by admin on July 14th, 2009

As a youngster, Super Bowl XLIII MVP Santonio Holmes experienced pain that racked his body similar to what his seven-year-old son endures today.

As a child, Holmes didn’t know the source of that pain — but he knows now. His son has sickle-cell disease. “I went through the same thing as a kid — same pain in my stomach all the time, arms just start hurting for no reason,” Holmes said following a recent workout at Disney’s Wide World of Sports. “I never knew what it was until I just found out in May that I have sickle cell — 25 years. Now, I know why he’s going through all those things I did.”

Click here to read the full article – By John Harris of TRIBUNE-REVIEW


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