October 8, 2019

Academy cadet remains resilient despite MS diagnosis

Story by Jennifer Spradlin, Oct. 8, 2019 U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. – Garrett Tuin was playing ping-pong with friends last year when he realized he couldn’t see the ball. He was home from the Air Force Academy on winter break, and his symptoms continued to worsen. Tuin was concerned, but his initial thought was that he scratched his eye while snowmobiling the day before or had pink eye. “I made an appointment with my ophthalmologist, who ran some tests, and she basically came back and said there was something going on with my optic nerve and while she didn’t...

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