Cowboys To Honor The Former Buckeye Ron Springs – Ohio State Buckeyes
8/15/2007 12:00:00 AM | Football
Past All-Big Ten tailback part of Ron Springs & Everson Walls Gift for Life Foundation for kidney disease
Zach Buchanan – DallasCowboys.com Staff Writer
IRVING, Texas (DallasCowboys.com) – Ron Springs is going to do everything he can to make sure what happened to him doesn’t happen to anyone else. When Springs, the former Cowboys fullback from 1979-84, found out he had diabetes after he retired, he took the disease for granted.
But it was bad. He had eye problems, heart failure and he lost his right leg below the knee. He can barely use his hands anymore. He needed a new kidney, and soon.
That bad.
And if it wasn’t for Everson Walls, it could have been much worse. After several potential kidney donors were ruled out for various reasons, Walls, Springs’ former Cowboys teammate and friend for more than 25 years, threw his name in the hat. And now, both Springs and Walls have one healthy kidney and can look forward to many more years of friendship together.
Because of Walls’ act of kindness and Springs’ good fortune, the two will spend those years together after jointly forming the Ron Springs & Everson Walls Gift for Life Foundation, geared toward providing education, early detection and prevention of chronic kidney disease.
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For more information or to make a donation to the Ron Springs & Everson Walls Gift for Life Foundation you can visit the foundation’s website at www.GiftforLifeFoundation.org.
