Champaign man's cancer battle a picture of positive thinking
By Brittany Abeijon
Sunday May 25, 2008
Robert K. O'Daniell
Nick communicates through his Web site, above, from his Champaign home. The blog is called F.S.R., which stands for Faith. Success. Recovery. Friends presented him with a framed certificate, below.
On the cold, gray tile floor in the middle of the hallway in Carle Clinic, Nick Schmidt lay on his left side with his back curved, his legs drawn up toward his stomach and his head bowed. Doctors wheeled patients in hospital beds past him. He couldn't sit up in the waiting room chairs. It was the only way he could stand the pain.
"Are you OK?" asked a nurse with a confused look on her face.
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