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The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times
SEATTLE — When his back still ached and the numbness still shot down his right leg following an abdominal surgery was supposed to fix it in February 2020, he wondered why his body was betraying him. When he was told he needed another surgery a week later, this time to repair a disc in his back, he wondered what he had done to deserve this situation. When he struggled to walk 10 feet without getting exhausted and he looked in the mirror at a frame that lost 30 pounds of muscle, he wondered how long it would take to feel normal again. But Mitch Haniger never once stopped believing he would be ba…