Three months into the start of their unofficial operation, Charles Ferrera started to get "the episodes", as he called them.
In truth, the headaches had been there for weeks, in the background and distant. But just recently, they had been growing stronger, blinding almost, so much so that at times he would take himself off to his room, close the curtains during the day and suffer through the intense pain.
At first he thought it was just a buildup of stress from the past year, or possibly a consequence of drying out from the booze. But as the weeks passed, he soon began to realize that this was no "cold turkey" affliction and he would frequently throw up during these attacks. There was nausea, sickness, and the ever-returning headaches.
All the good work he"d done to attain physical fitn
