Steve Stricker said a mystery illness caused severe weight loss and threatened his life late last year.
"Everything was going south and they’re telling me they don’t know. It would have been probably easier if they’re like, 'This is what’s going on,'" Stricker told Marla Ridenour of the Akron Beacon Journal. "They’re checking for all these big things—cancers, liver cancer, liver problems, and you’re just hoping and praying nothing’s going to come back with a bad reading. They took a biopsy of my liver. There were a whole bunch of things.
"Looking in the mirror and seeing what I looked like was not very comforting, just knowing what my brother went through.