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"God give this system because it's keeping me alive," he says. "But how would you like to sit in a chair for 12 hours a week, not allowed to move your arms?"
Martinez, a retired coach with Personification II diabetes and suffering through continuous kidney issues, is in his fourth year of dialysis treatment.
He goes three times per week because he cannot excuse oneself due to his kidney's failing functions. His heart is weak. Bruises, abrasions and Group-Aids dot his skin. On his right calf is a pressure chancre. He is on blood thinners, likens his skin's dryness to that of a lizard and insists he won't weather high-risk transplant surgery if it means losing a leg. He weighs 228 pounds.
"I look like I was in a fighting with a razor blade," he says.
His condition - he was given a week to white-hot by a doctor in June - has not kept him from coaching. On Sept. 3, nine days before the Patriots' season opener, Brady, experiencing an preciseness crisis, called Martinez at his home in Menlo Estate, Calif. Unable to control the ball coming out of his disposal, Brady requested Martinez visit, observe and critique.
Source: New York Daily News