Some data of my days between the accident and race day (334 days): 6 surgeries 20 days in the hospital 202 hours of workouts 1,418 miles covered 150 hours of one-on-one therapy The math comes out to having dedicated on average over an hour per day specifically healing and getting stronger. “Not everything that can…
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Our Social media culture does a good job of highlighting the good times and filtering or hiding the low ones. I’ve tried to keep it as honest as possible in this blog but also delved more into the happier and best moments of the recovery rather than the really bad ones as a way to…
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This post was written by Christopher Staley (Thanks!) It was 1.30AM on Thursday, November 2nd 2017, when the social services attendant finally cracked open the door to the freezing cold waiting room at Jackson’s Trauma Intensive care unit emergency wing, where we anxiously awaited any kind of news. Her words were “you can see him…
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Tim Don, a professional triathlete, who suffered a very similar cervical injury recently put it like this: “It’s like flying economy for three months straight” and I couldn’t agree more, but as with anything in life it has its positives too. I never really had a choice or any warning regarding the neck brace. I…
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At one point in the hospital, when I was getting ready to leave the TICU (Trauma Intensive Care Unit) to go to the more “relaxed” burn unit, my coach Boris came up with the idea that I had to get better quickly and train to walk the Miami Half-Marathon. The catch? It was coming up…
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Over the last six months people have reached out to me about my story (the curiosity a neck brace can cause is astonishing). Most of them had followed my progress on Instagram or had often seen me walking around the neighborhood (I walk a lot as you will discover in later). What some of them…
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