{"id":24923,"date":"2024-01-10T15:17:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T15:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test11.f5test.in.ua\/personal-stories\/finding-mission-after-losing-son\/"},"modified":"2024-09-17T13:02:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T13:02:55","slug":"finding-mission-after-losing-son","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/concussionandcte.org\/en-ca\/personal-stories\/inspiring-stories\/finding-mission-after-losing-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding a Mission After Losing a Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Posted: January 5, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W9Db4sget38\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Below is a full transcription of Graham Thomas&#8217; interview:<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>On his son, Alexander:<\/h4>\n<p>Oh, Alexander loved Hockey. He played a lot of hockey growing up. Age seven through 16 at a very elite level here in the United States and wasn&#8217;t a huge checker but absorbed many hits over the time period. He had many, many blows where guys would crush him into the boards. He said, \u201cDad, I blacked out during the game,\u201d and as he says he blacks out I&#8217;m like but you weren&#8217;t laying on the ice. He gets diagnosed, he&#8217;s out for three weeks and then gets allowed to play and while he&#8217;s playing he seems okay but at the end of that weekend was when he decided to take his own life.<\/p>\n<h4>What is Graham&#8217;s mission?<\/h4>\n<p>We felt invincible. We had all of the imPACT testing, we had all of the pre-screening as far as concussion goes but what we didn&#8217;t know were the symptoms of a\u00a0concussion. I believe our foundation, the Untold Foundation, and my son&#8217;s legacy is that we have to make sure that everyone is educated properly. 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