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One family's long fight with death, pancreatitis and insurance companies
NORMAL -- Dave Nelson, a popular chemistry teacher at Normal Community High School, was on bus duty one day after school when he turned to principal Jeanette Nuckolls and said he was having outpatient gallstone surgery and would be back in three days.
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While most of Dave Nelson’s experiences in nursing homes over the past couple of years were positive, there were problems, said his wife, Kim Nelson.

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