Bronx,
New Yorker Marlon Benn was injured while serving in the Navy during the first
Gulf War in the early 1990s, but he didn’t have a name for the resulting
medical condition until 2005, when an MRI revealed that he had syringomyelia.
The disease is characterized by cyst formation in the spinal cord.
After
leaving the military in 1993, Marlon became a police officer. The syringomyelia
gradually worsened, leading to paralysis in his right leg and other health
problems that prevented him from performing his law enforcement duties. He
retired in 2011.
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