When Christian Halverson arrived at work on a Monday in late October, he had no idea that within 48 hours his whole world would be spun upside down and he’d be in a battle for his life. After all, he’d walked his daughter down the aisle just five days before and there were no signs anything was amiss.
“I felt like I was dying,” Halverson said recently, recounting how he lay down in the back of a sports utility vehicle so his wife, Joanne Delaney, could take him back to Southern Ocean Medical Center in Stafford Township from their home in Little Egg…
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