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David Glenn
12/3/01
Determination
Lede
St. Louis, MO- -Thump, thump, thump,thump...Now the first wave of perspiration starts on the nurses face as she wrestles with the task at hand.
As the patient looks up he braces for the painful but necessary shot which he is about to receive. This is what Maryville student David Glenn goes through three times a week four hours each dialysis session in order to stay alive.
David had a cist on his pancreas, which resulted in renal kidney failure. The medication for the cist shut down his kidneys, resulted in a six-month hospital stay, re…