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Tred Barta Recovery Update November 21st 2009

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Manasquan, NJ --(AmmoLand.com)- Here is a nice update by Great American Outdoor Trail’s Radio Magazine on our friend and hero Tred Barta.

If you did not know Tred has a Spinal Stroke in the beginning of 2009 that has left him paralyzed from the waist down. It is great to hear his voice and to hear that he is pushing through this tragedy “the hard way..the Barta way”

Tred is famous for his outdoors television show The Best & Worst of Tred Barta on Versus Channel. Tred has worked hard in the past to raise $1,800,000 for children’s charities. Now one good turn deserves another.

Needles to say Tred has been out of work and has run up some staggering medical bills. Knowing Tred it must be very difficult to take any kind of charity but the man deserves our support.  If you feel you would like to help Tred, his wife and kids out and pay down some of these bills his family has set up a fund for just that purpose.

Send what you can to:

Keep your spirits up Ted we miss you and hope to see you back on screen as soon as possible. – AmmoLand

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Great American Outdoor Trails Radio Magazine: For more information about the Great American Outdoor Trails Radio Magazine, the Outdoor Trails Network at www.outdoortrailsnetwork.com
or contact Jim Ferguson at 785-846-7844 or email him at radio@outdoortrailsnetwork.com

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Tred Barta – I Don’t Know How To Quit

NWS Tred Barta 1 DT 9-23-09 Dominique Taylor/dtaylor@vaiildaily.com Tred Barta demonstrates some of his daily workout routine that will help him maintain his upper body strength Wednesday at his home in Eagle, Colorado

Vail Daily

Salt Creek, CO --(AmmoLand.com Firearms News)-Tred Barta is in his living room, watching an episode of his TV show, “The Best and Worst of Tred Barta.” It’s the last one he taped before a pair of rare medical conditions put him a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

There’s Barta, in blue pajamas, on the business end of a fly rod. He’s running around a Guatemalan resort trying to mimic how a sailfish might behave. Finally, he jumps in the pool, splashing, bobbing, filled with the glee of the moment.

Originally diagnosed with a a rare spinal stroke, Barta is actually suffering from an equally obscure condition known as Waldenstrom’s Disease, a cancer-like illness that thickens the blood.

The damage from the disease cost Barta the use of his legs, but it remains to be seen how much this will slow him down — he has been steadily practicing archery from the wheel chair to which he is now confined.

Versus has renewed his show for next year, and all of his sponsors are still with him.

“My goal now is to encourage others,” Barta said. “I want to inspire people, to be a role model.”

“Life is good, life is happy,” Tred says. “What a privilege to be here.

“You can change a life, you can change the world,” he added. “That’s what I want the rest of my life to be about.”

Read More at Vaildaily.com

Hat Tip: HuntWest

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