The Fridge Falls Ill

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Oct 28, 2008 10:15PM

While one former Chicago Bear defensive great has ascended to a head coaching spot, another has found himself battling a disease that has threatened his life and left him confined to a wheelchair. The Trib's Fred Mitchell caught up with William "The Refrigerator" Perry, who suffers from Guillain-Barré syndrome, a condition in which, "the body's immune system attacks part of the peripheral nervous system." Perry told Mitchell, "I'm walking a little bit and rehabbing and doing what I'm supposed to. Tell everybody that I'm doing a whole lot better. It just takes time. I hope to be up and about in a walker real soon." Perry now resides in Aiken, South Carolina.