Working Around Crohn's Disease
People have asked me, "how did a nice Jewish boy wind up working for the notorious cocaine overlord Pablo Escobar in the late 1970's and 1980's?". It's a long story. After falling off the wait list to Harvard Law School and returning to Miami, I realized two things: I was not highly employable and I was about to be kicked off my parent's Blue Cross. I felt I needed to make money to pay for the mountains of medical expenses I was soon to encounter. I'm sure there were other factors involved, but it was the nature of a chronic lifelong condition that led to that decision.
Forty five years later and after seventy trips to the emergency room and multiple surgeries, I can't say, at the time, I made a poor decision. Maybe, if there was some kind of help back then to find a way to to maintain employment, things would have been different...
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