After the accident, John seemed to have recovered from the accident without any conspicuous disabilities. But his life had been quietly corroded by chronic pain. And almost equally by the stresses of navigating the doctors medications and their side effects to manage it. The trama wasn't the falling tree, but his experience of erlessness as a perpetual patient in the american medical system. It manifested as a kind of unbearable empathy for any one who was suffering. He found early on that he could corden off this suffering, both in his own mind and in conversation, by making jokes about the accident itself. That trick got much easier after the national geographic show aired later that year, mission rescue, final frontier

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