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“Everyone's heard of my original health scare, which left me in a coma. Once I got through with that, it took me another six, seven months to even get back to playing. I was happy, and then I started playing. I just felt terrible. I just remember walking out there and I was chugging water like no other. I had to go to the bathroom four times. I just felt bad, dizzy. I hadn’t played a tournament in two years. I thought that was normal. I ended up flying home, went straight to the hospital, got some blood work, and that's when they told me, "Hey, you have type one diabetes." Of course, that was difficult because you feel confused at times. I've been through so much so when they were like, "Oh, you're going to be fine, you're going to live," I was like, "Okay, whatever, it's fine, I'm going to live." Then it didn’t really hit me probably for another year and a half, because when you get diagnosed with type one, you go through this honeymoon phase. Unless you have somebody close by or ...

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