Truck driver advances on road to recovery

URBANA – For the last six weeks, David Hudson has been longing for his own bed. While he'll get to sleep in his own house tonight, it won't be in his beloved heated waterbed.

"I love my waterbed. I miss it," Hudson said from his hospital bed at Carle Foundation Hospital last week.

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