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Courage of a Daughter

Lindsey Duquette's battle with the kidney disease FSGS was featured in the New York Daily News on Sunday, October 23. Here is the story by Wayne Coffey...

SPARKS, Md. - Lindsey Duquette doesn't have her own baseball card. Not many 9-year-olds do - even ones with a father who makes his living in the game. But if Lindsey Duquette did have a card, the numbers on the back would tell her story. Would they ever tell her story, not with Lindsey's resilience or sense of humor, but with the cold, hard currency of fact.

The card would list her 60 hospital visits and her two dozen emergency-room trips, of course. It would run down her hundreds of dialysis treatments and her surgeries and the 24 medications she was once taking, to say nothing of five years of steroid treatments that left her body hotter than a lava pit, and as blown up as a Thanksgiving Day float character.

In the 2011 season, it would list the removal of her kidneys after Lindsey went into end-stage renal failure in the spring.

The card would run out of space before it could fully itemize the unspeakable misfortune that Lindsey Duquette has endured over the last seven years. It wouldn't even try to chronicle the heartache that Lindsey's parents, Jim and Pam Duquette, have been through, getting emotionally body-slammed by Lindsey's disease,