Refrigerator Perry is getting better

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You know my first instinct was to think of this as “another fat guy getting skinny”, but that is not what this is about. Refrigerator Perry played for the Chicago Bears and Mike Ditka and that famous 87 team. He was massive before everyone did massive. Sometimes they would move him to fullback on the goal line just to scare the linebackers. Most of the time he was a very good and very large defensive lineman.

Now Michael Dean Perry has Guillan-Barre syndrome and there is no cure. Guillaine-Barre uses your immune system to attack your peripheral nerves. Fridge has lost about 150 pounds and his brother recently looked in on him.

Now each day Michael Dean visits William at the North Carolina rehab center — sometimes to encourage him and sometimes to participate in his lengthy recovery.

“Baby steps I call them,” he said Wednesday, adding that William still was not up to granting interviews. “But we can see improvement.”

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website, Guillain-Barre syndrome causes “…the loss of reflexes … and paralysis of respiratory muscles also can occur. A small proportion of patients die, and 20% of hospitalized patients can have prolonged disability.”

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Perry is uniquely fitted into NFL lore and we all wish him the best on his recovery.

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