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Relapsing Neuropathy: A Short Story
I had always wanted to go back in time to see how my dad lived. He had a disease called Relapsing Neuropathy he wore leg guards and was in a wheelchair. That day had finally came.Finding his leg guards in his mom’s basement. He said“put them on!” “No.”I said “Why not then you can feel how I felt.”My dad said
So I eventually did an all of the sudden, I found myself in a hospital room in Lansing, Michigan.With me I found 2 other people, his mom and his dad. Of course he was there too, he was wrapped up in a blanket.Because he was just born he was very small. Let me tell you a little bit of what I learned about him when I went back in time to see him.That he started working at the age of 14.He lived in town so he would mow everybody's lawns in the neighborhood for them.Another thing I learned is that he started his own business doing plumbing.Working for him was his father and his father in-law .That business is now called Moore Plumbing.He grew his business by having little business in his big business.He also flips houses and then sells them. This is a little bit about his disease called Relapsing Neuropathy. He was in a wheelchair for at least 10 years of his life. Soon he was able to walk with leg guards a little bit at
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Then they moved to the country. What I learned about his younger brother is that he was in the Army for about twenty years. Hoping to have more years in the army but that turned around faster than he thought. Becoming a wounded warrior was the hardest thing that he had went through. It all started when a stack was called, when they stacked somebody jumped on his back too hard. Eventually he had to get two metal plates in his

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