492: Dr. Gilmer and Mr. Hyde
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Huntington's Disease
Vince vents has huntington's disease - a cruel trifecta of alzheimers, parkinson's and lew garrig's disease rolled into one. The condition causes severe emotional and physical symptoms that usually die after about 20 years. If your parent has it, you've got a 50% chance of getting it. Vince was moved from wallans ridge to a psychiatric hospital within the prison system called marion correctional treatment center. A social worker there told me vince had threatened suicide. They'd found a couple of razor blades in his room. I don't know what i'm going to do with this.
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