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Here's to you, Dad.

Here's to you, for always loving mom so well and being her best friend, for being Garrett's biggest fan in every sport throughout the years, for always keeping me laughing through long drives of pretending your car was a NASCAR, singing Guns-n-Roses and Tom Petty to me and raising me right to become a cheesehead.

Here's to you, for always being strong to put us first and protect us. From hiding your PD with "your friend Mr. Shakey," to trying to give mom and Garrett and I the best life you could, in spite of the disease.

Here's to you, that has traveled all over the country to participate and hold fundraisers for research, that wrote your own book sharing your story, that has participated in trials and surgeries in hopes of someday finding a cure for this disease.

Here's to you, for choosing joy and hope in this fight, over letting the disease win emotionally. You chose to get involved, to start fighting for not only your own life but for others'. You mentor people throughout the country fighting the same fight you are, giving your advice, a listening ear, and encouragement and compassion, and in return the Lord has shown you are not alone in this.

Here's to you, Dad, who doesn't deserve this disease (frankly, no one does), but you have learned to handle it with grace, compassion, strength, and faith. With everything this disease has thrown at you in the past 15 years, you have learned to cling to hope. And with your recent diagnosis of dementia in the past few months, which brings so much uncertainty to the future and has given me personally so many emotions (mainly anger and heartache), you continue to assure me that everything will be okay.

So, here's to you dad: our best friend, biggest fan on the sidelines, my fellow cheesehead, Garrett's go to one-on-one opponent, our favorite author, best boxer/PD fighter we've ever seen, DBS surgery a**-kicker, my favorite breakfast date, the best dad we could ask for: Happy Father's Day.

We love you so much.
Cathy, Addison, Garrett