Martinez readies to practice on death minutes

Monday, June 27th, 2011 at 12:38 pm , filed under NFL News by Andrew Pollard

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Tom Martinez is literally the living proof that once canâ€™t keep a good man aside. Tom Bradyâ€™s mentor, Tom Martinez has mentored him since the New England Patriotsâ€™ quarterback was a teenager. Two weeks ago he has revealed that he had just a few weeks to live as he was loosing battles with diabetes complications and a failing kidney.

On Saturday, Tom Martinez has returned to football field and mentoring 35 teenagers at his 33rd annual quarterback camp in Woodside, California. He was boosted by an overwhelming public response to his news. He told to kids that the positive things have happened since his revelation and he is feeling better and he is optimistic after being almost completely certain that I was going to die.

It is really a good thing that eight people has offered Martinez their kidneys after his daughter Linda has posted a message of thanks through Facebook from her father to the football, softball and womenâ€™s basketball players that he coached at College of San Mateo. Tom was told that it would be difficult to find a kidney donor and he would need a heart transplant.

Martinez said that one kid he used to coach said that he would give both his kidney and his heart, but obviously he couldnâ€™t do that. He added that it was all very touching. He said that the parents of a former athlete helped him while he was receiving treatment at Stanford. He added that they were very less conservative and in quick succession, the adjustments were made to his pacemaker and also a blood donor was found.

Martinez concluded that after his camp ends, he will go back down to UCLA for few internal tests to check whether if he can handle the surgery and they might try to do a double transplant if everything works well.

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