'Living While Dying' episode 9: Christmas reflections
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Bruce Kramer, who has ALS, listens to his doctors during a check up Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013 at Saint Marys Hospital in Rochester. Kramer is one of only a handful of ALS patients in Minnesota using a diaphragmatic pacing system to help him take more powerful breaths.
Jennifer Simonson | MPR News
Two years since being diagnosed with ALS, Bruce Kramer re-evaluates his priorities.
As Christmas approaches, he has the time and solitude to appreciate the season more than ever.
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