in a weird way, it's good to read stories that put you back in your place. From espn.com:

Kris hurt so bad, and big, burly Mark could do nothing about it. Trips to the emergency room were awful; their daughters would stare at them like mama wasn't ever coming home again. Those are memories that keep a man up at night.

Bright spots were few.

One of them, of course, was the Colts. They'd seen Peyton Manning play before cancer had changed their lives. By God, they were gonna do it again. Their first try was when Indy played a preseason game this year against the Saints in Jackson, Miss.

Kris was in so much pain that morning. She couldn't walk. They got a wheelchair. Crowds outside were awful, the idiots running the game practically strip-searched people coming into the stadium and by the time they made it inside, it was a zoo. Mark tried to push the wheelchair up the ramp, but it was just too much.

"Fifteen more feet and we could have seen the field," he says. "I finally had to turn around and mow my way back down the ramp and get out of that hellhole. The most pitiful sight I have ever seen is my wife in her wheelchair and my 7-year-old with her Peyton Manning jersey on outside of that stadium on the side of the road crying."