Dennis Walker:  

Life Well, after high school I entered the work force, spending 18 years in various aspects of the electrical business. In 1994 I had a stroke, caused by increased blood pressure due to an aortic dissection, the same thing that killed actor John Ritter. Since then I have had two major surgeries to replace my aorta with Dacron tubing, a cancer surgery, which revealed no tumors after several doctors swore they were there. I became an adult onset diabetes patient in '01, with a blood sugar of 1049 (!) when I was diagnosed. Having been in a wheelchair since '00 after something went wrong on the second aorta surgery, my extremetries were seriously compromised, and as a result I had both legs amputated above the knee in '03, one in April and ...Expand for more