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Article: THANKING UW HOSPITAL WITH A PICNIC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL'S HAPPY ALUMNI.(FRONT)
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- The Capital Times
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- July 15, 2002
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Byline: Samara Kalk The Capital Times
Jody Schutte was 23 and running restaurants in the Chicago area when he began having throat problems. Eventually he went to a cancer clinic and was told he had acute non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
"They told me I wasn't going to live," said Schutte. "They told me to go home, basically."
So Schutte came back to Madison, where he could be close to his family and await the inevitable.
"I ended up here very ill," he said Sunday, surrounded by hundreds of current and former patients of the UW Children's Hospital at its second annual picnic at Elver Park, which in the course of the afternoon drew about 1,200 ...