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Diagnosis: survivor living with multiple sclerosis, country music star Clay Walker has learned to put a positive spin on life.
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American Fitness
- Article date:
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January 1, 2005
- Author:
- Siegler, Bonnie
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Athletic all his life, country superstar Clay Walker began his usual pick-up game of basketball with friends one hot, humid Texas day. But it turned out to be anything but a normal hoops game. "I fell down about five times," Walker recalls painfully. "I even hate to think about this. But my right leg almost completely stopped working. I looked up at the basketball hoop and saw two of them. It didn't take me long to realize that something was wrong." To make matters worse, the singer and songwriter, whose guitar playing had always been second nature, could not hold a guitar pick between his fingers. "I went for an MRI and they found lesions and scars on my brain. That's what ...