How making metal masterpieces helped Eddie cope with cancer and dialysis

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When kidney disease, gruelling dialysis and cancer forced metal worker Eddie Rigo to give up his job, he found creating metal sculptures helped him through the tough time.

Mr Rigo began making sculptures out of polished steel washers in between dialysis sessions."So I can still work that way ... in a sense," he said.

"I did a mannequin for my daughter's wedding anniversary … It took about four months to do that but it turned out absolutely beautiful." "I don't know anything about guitars really, I just bought [a guitar] on marketplace and decided to make one.

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