Chapter 18
College was very different for Jason this time. No longer was he partying, and then trying to cram to pass an exam. He was studying each night, and enjoying it. Between his Veteran’s benefits, the rental income from two mobile homes he had bought with money he saved in the Navy, and Mr. Wall’s money, he had no money worries.
In the fall of 1976, Jason began having pains in his lower back. He had been diagnosed with disc problems in the Navy and was sure the problem had re-occurred. After visiting the dispensary, he was told that he had kidney stones, and was sent to Radford to an urologist. The cute red-headed nurse, about seven years younger, led him into the examination room where she started taking his blood pressure and heart rate. Before he finished, after racking h
