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Article: Four months after a motorcycle accident almost took his life, Nashoba Regional's Bobby Lombardo is... Beating the odds.(SPORTS)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- December 25, 2007
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Byline: Jim Wilson
COLUMN: HIGH SCHOOLS
The holidays are a time to count one's blessings and celebrate with family. For Nashoba Regional's Bobby Lombardo, he has a little more to celebrate than most people.
Lombardo was on his way to Solomon Pond Mall to get lunch before football practice on Aug. 21 when the motorcycle he was riding hit a pothole, forcing him off the road. He doesn't remember much about the next eight hours, only small moments where he opened his eyes to see family members and friends crying around him.
Lombardo was lucky - if you consider lucky fracturing your pelvis in six places, damaging your spleen so severely it ...