Thank you for touching our children's lives. Thank you for the joy you brought us on NFL Sundays. Most of all, thank you for teaching us how to deal with adversity. His life filled with 33 years of triumph, trials People wander in and out of Jackson Memorial Hospital now, some crying, some laughing, some trying hard to look brave. Newcomers drift through the halls aimlessly.
Regulars walk with purpose, like police officers on the beat.
A few hours have pushed by since Derrick Thomas died so suddenly. The hospital goes on. The hospital always goes on. Derrick Thomas was just one man in this gigantic assembly of hospital buildings. Just one story.