October 30, 2008

Donor Driven to Raise Funds to Help Find Diabetes Cure

By Ben Gose

For more than 20 years, James C. Tyree suffered extreme complications from diabetes, including spending a month in a coma in 1997 following a sharp spike in his blood sugar. His ability to overcome those challenges provided good material for the many speeches the financial executive has made over the years for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International.

"I've been dead, I've been blind, and I don't feel anything below my knees," he would often tell audiences. "But I feel

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