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For four weeks, he dismissed stomach pains as the result of bad food or possibly a stomach bug he could’ve contracted from his young daughters.

After all, he’d just undergone a routine blood test and doctors saw no irregularities.

And when his wife, Michelle, urged him to go see the doctor because his skin was turning yellow and he had lost weight, athletically-built Craig Merimee passed it off as bad lighting and fatigue from the self-diagnosed stomach bug.