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| Dustin Stockdill (right) stabilizes David Stiffler as Sam Calabrace, CPO (left), evaluates Stiffler’s gait. Photograph by Chad Means. Originally published in Our Town community newspaper, Johnstown, Pennsylvania. |
David Stiffler’s health crashed suddenly and precipitously on Christmas Day 2008. Stiffler, a resident of Windber, Pennsylvania, suffered a massive heart attack, followed by pneumonia and an aggressive staph infection. To stabilize him and to give his body a chance to heal in a fully quiescent state, doctors put Stiffler in a medically induced coma for two months.
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