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Nonetheless, he still lives &#8220;every day as if its his last.&#8221; Not only that, as a retired rehabilitation counselor for the blind, he has the patience and the care to give other patients what they sometime need the most &#8211; a friend. Despite his own medical problems and complexities, he makes himself available as a counselor or a friendly ear to other patients and attempts to instill a life of his own at the House.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-section\">\n<figure class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/854\/2018\/09\/family-house-diaries-unyielding-spirit-image2.jpeg\" alt=\"image2\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Jack Newmann, SECU Family House Resident<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>February 19, 2010 \u2014 The SECU Family House is a home away from home for patients at UNC Hospitals. Some of the most inspiring stories and unyielding spirits at the Family House are featured in the \u201cFamily House Diaries,\u201d and Jack Newmann is certainly one of those spirits. Although Newmann has been living with severe Type I diabetes and dealing with the resulting consequences, such as  being legally blind, for nearly 54 of his 58 years. Nonetheless, he still lives \u201cevery day as if its his last.\u201d Not only that, as a retired rehabilitation counselor for the blind, he has the patience and the care to give other patients what they sometime need the most \u2013 a friend. Despite his own medical problems and complexities, he makes himself available as a counselor or a friendly ear to other patients and attempts to instill a life of his own at the House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1915,"featured_media":3038,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17],"featured-item":[],"class_list":["post-3037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-17","odd"],"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Family House Diaries: Unyielding Spirit | Department of Surgery<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/family-house-diaries-unyielding-spirit\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Family House Diaries: Unyielding Spirit | Department of Surgery\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"February 19, 2010 \u2014 The SECU Family House is a home away from home for patients at UNC Hospitals. 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