For Manny Fernandez, memories overshadow pain.

Publication: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)

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Byline: Dave Hyde

MIAMI _ Manny Fernandez is awakened five or six times a night and told to change sleeping positions. First, it's his right shoulder, which has bone spurs and no rotator cuff, telling him to quit sleeping on that side. He'll change to sleeping on his stomach until his back, which underwent a six-hour surgery, says it's time to change positions.

So he'll shift to his left side, where that shoulder also has no rotator cuff and bone spurs, until it locks up and awakens him.

Back to the right side he'll go.

"Same thing, every night," Fernandez,...

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