Word: teigen
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...Bruce Teigen has six more thank-you notes to write. But his fingers, chafed and bloated, can't grip a pen very well anymore. He is blind in his left eye and has blurry vision in his right, but Bruce, never a complainer, vows to complete the chore in the coming days. His mother Phyllis Moore pulls out a stack of blank greeting cards for him to choose from. "This one says, 'With special thoughts of you,' and has a cute teapot on it," she calmly tells her son as he sits on his well-worn living-room rocker. "This...
Illness has been a near constant companion to Teigen. He had diabetes diagnosed at the age of 18 months, after inexplicably lapsing into a coma. Over the years since, he's endured a ruptured appendix; breathing problems; gangrenous feet, which led to the amputation of his left foot in 1998; and seizures too numerous to count. Still, he's been a model patient, giving himself daily insulin shots since he was 10, watching his diet and constantly monitoring his blood sugar. But the severity of his disease continued to make him prone to seizures and life-threatening infections. He never...