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My body John has you all beat. He served with the US Army in Germany during the late 1980's. He worked in motor transport on missile truck - with a nuclear missile on it. I believe it was something similar to a Scud.
I knew none of this. He worked at the Post Office and worked early hours. At the time I lived in the same apartment complex with my girlfriend. I got a call from his room mate at 4am saying he couldn't wake John up. I rush over there. His life changed that day and it hasn't been the same since.
He has what is called "water on the brain". Our brain drains waste fluid through our system and out when we pee. With my friend John this doesn't happen, but intstead it builds up in his brain until it puts so much pressure on his brain that he cannot function and he basically shuts down. So far he is the longest living person with this medical condition and has had fourteen operations on his brain. I've been there for him at each and every operation through out our sixteen year relationship.
John was my best man at my wedding when I married Donna.
He has a shunt - a rubber tube - that runs from his brain down to his crotch where the waste fluid drains from his brain. He seems perfectly normal unless you have a detailed conversation with him. Then you discover he's a bit childish. We believe he has partial retardiation from his condition. John will be tweny for the rest of his life.
John is fully disabled from the US Army, and also fully retired from the US Post Office. He is unable to work and pulls in just enough money to live off of.
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