Hello my Name is Josh Wachter and I'm creating this Blog in honor of a fallen friend. When I was growing up Colin Godat was a couple years older than me. We weren't what I'd call close but he was most definitely someone I looked up to the whole time I was growing up. Later we were Team Mates and then co-workers at Pacific Crest and Wachter Lumber as we first worked and then struck off on our own (there were others but this sounds better) before striking out together on the business front.
We shared the same interests in several areas. Mostly in our passion for Business and the sport of Soccer.
I've been living in the Philippines for the past several years and so I wasn't able to attend the funeral. Colin passed away back on November 19, 2010 and while I know its taken me far to long to get this Blog started I just wanted to say. "Harry, I just wanted to say that wherever you are, you will be missed."
Just so we're clear I'm not a Doctor. I'm a Nurse/Business Entrepreneur. So I will be drawing on knowledge and resources from my own personal experiences, text books, people I know and other websites as I go along. Because I'm not a Dr. I cannot diagnose or proscribe medications. So if you think you have a problem with something, you need to see a Doctor. I'll help out how I can but that's it. I'm helping you as an online friend with advice and support not as a trained medical professional intimately familiar with ALS or Lou Gehrig's.
Also I want to make sure everyone understands that since this Blog is in honor of Colon Godat, also known as 'Harry' or "Hairy' to his friends and team mates, this Blog and anything else I will do to further the education, support and, at least in my dreams, the treatment of ALS Lou Gehrig's Disease, will also include diversions into the Sport of Soccer. Any money I raise from Adsense or again in my dreams from any charitable donations will go first to helping people with Lou Gehrig's but if there's any unused extra also to promote and sponsor a Soccer Team in Colin's honor. Preferably a youth one.
Soccer was one of Colin's main passions in life and the one I was most intimately familiar with. We shared the same coaches and in several cases many of the same teams. I can't think of anything more fitting, other than a cure for this disease, than honoring him by promoting one or more teams in his name and memory. So while I will be focused primarily on awareness, assistance and in all other ways ALS and Lou Gehrig's, don't get mad if you see articles and posts about Colin, his life and teams he either played on, taught or supported.
My next posts will try to focus more on actually informing and assisting with the Disease. I suppose this will have to do double duty as my mission statement and the reason I'm here doing this.
Thank you everyone who has made this blog possible but most especially thanks go to Colin who touched so many lives, including my own.
Josh Wachter
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