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life to the living
The numbness of his legs is a constant reminder of his inability to walk as he tries to flex the muscles of his missing toes. His eyesight is beginning to fail him and the thought of seeing his daughter accept her diploma at her university graduation is naught but a distant dream. Five times every week, he must go into the hospital and endure hours of dialysis that clear out the build-up of deadly toxins that are left in his blood by his failing kidneys. He is diabetic, and he has been since he was three. Because of his disease, he hasn't known what it is like to eat when he feels like it and
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