I haven't logged on in a couple of days. This is horrible news. God bless Coach Moore's family. Prayers and thoughts.
I have seen this several times...usually kidneys...he will be missed.It's become public now. It was an autoimmune condition in which the body attacks it's own tissue. I'm sure that he knew of it, since it's inherited. Hearing from people around him recently that it was obvious that he didn't feel good. The final phase, I'm sure came on rapidly and he almost died in Birmingham...
In view of what other people have said, I think it's been going downhill for a while and he's been pushing through. However, the end phase undoubtedly came very quickly and he became too weak for the lung transplant very quickly...It's scary that such a thing can happen so quickly.
Yes, I've just never heard of it with lungs before. With kidneys, there can be a number of causes. One common on is massive exposure to poison ivy, which causes a massive autoimmune response which attacks the kidneys causing nephrosis. I had a brush with that as a youth, rolling over and over in it on a boy scout camp out. After all the rash faded, anytime I got a bit hot, my skin would break out with blisters all over. Fortunately for me, cortisone had recently been discovered - it was around 1948 or so - and I had three months of cortisone injections, which clears it up. I can spot three leaves from 100' away now in the woods. But to return to Mal, this is the first I've heard of it with lungs. Practically every year a couple of ranchers in Texas are lost to that type of nephrosis, but it's usually from inhaling smoke from burning brush with poison ivy in it...I have seen this several times...usually kidneys...he will be missed.
Memorial Service on Thursday @ 3:00 p.m. @ Coleman Colosseum.Any word yet on the funeral service?
I would try the local Tuscaloosa TV stations.Anyone know if the memorial service will be streamed online for those of us not able to make it to Tuscaloosa?