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Welcome back to the channel. 
I'm Dan Becker and on this 

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podcast, I sit down with 
survivors of all kinds to hear 

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their stories directly from 
them. 

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Today we're talking to Lauren 
and Sabia after a horrific 

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forklift accident left Lauren 
literally cut in half. 

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Both of their lives obviously 
changed forever. 

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And today they're here to share 
their story. 

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So you where did this happen? 
So the accident happened in it 

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right outside of Wilsall, 
Montana. 

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Pretty much a blink of an eye in
town. 

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Population like less than 250. 
Yeah, right outside Will saw 

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Montana. 
Where? 

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Right on the bridge leading into
Will saw Montana. 

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What were you doing? 
What we were doing was a bridge 

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rehabilitation job. 
So we were breaking down the 

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bridge and rebuilding it, 
basically just repairing, 

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rebuilding the whole bridge and 
putting down fresh new lanes 

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across the bridge so that 
there's no potholes and stuff 

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like that. 
So then what were you were you 

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were on the forklift? 
So the the day so I was on the 

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job as a laborer through the 
labor union. 

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It was my first construction 
job. 

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I wasn't certified or have any 
training or anything whatsoever.

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I so June 6th, I turned 18 June 
6th, that's the very same day I 

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went to the labor hall, filled 
out the paperwork or labor 

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union, filled out the paperwork,
did the test. 

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And then the 7th I came back in 
for some second interview, 

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whatever. 
And then the 8th is when her 

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uncle who worked for the company
that I ended up being employed 

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through, ended up contacting the
labor union and got me hired on 

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to the job. 
Yeah. 

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And then so I was. 
Like you got any jobs? 

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Yeah. 
So two days after my 18th 

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birthday, I was signed on with 
the labor union or yeah, with 

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labor union. 
And then I was given a mile 

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marker. 
I was told head to this mile 

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marker at this time and be there
by this time. 

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And that's all I was given. 
And what that's? 

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How it tends to go. 
And so on the 8th of June, I was

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given all this. 
Come to this mile marker at this

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time and be there at that, at 
the and be ready to do this. 

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Did this happen on your first 
day on the job? 

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No, no. 
And then so and so I traveled 

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down to the mile marker and 
ended up putting this truck 

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camper trailer that I was 
staying in on the job site. 

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And when I went, I so I went 
down to the mile marker and 

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that's when I ended up finding 
the job site and then learned 

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who I was employed by. 
And that was basically my first 

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week and then three months went 
down the line and then. 

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I was going to say, I believe 
the question was what did you do

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at the job site? 
Sorry, my God. 

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And then so yeah, at the job 
site, what I was was basically 

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just a hands on grunt labor 
worker because I was still just 

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fresh out the gate, 18 years 
old, no certifications, no 

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training, no nothing. 
So I was just a hands on grunt 

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worker laborer. 
So I would mostly just be 

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picking up rocks or chip in 
cement or just hands on labor 

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Wow, OK, tell me about that day.

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What what? 
What was the day? 

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You're up. 
You're on your way to work. 

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So, so the reason why I was even
at work that day was the 

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previous the day before. 
So we would work 4 out of seven 

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days a week for four tens 40 
hours and then you can work 5-6 

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days if you wanted overtime. 
Well, I wasn't planning on 

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working overtime that week, but 
the car that I was using broke 

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down on me. 
And so my supervisor said, well,

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if you decide to work, if you 
work Friday overtime that day, 

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then come Friday after Friday, 
we'll take the trailer that's on

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the job site, we'll load the car
up onto it and I'll take you you

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home with the with the car if 
she just works. 

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Right site was like 4 1/2 hours 
away from where we live, so he 

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was like there for four days. 
Oh, staying. 

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OK, I got you. 
And that's why when the car 

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broke down, it wasn't just like,
call a tow company and get it 

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towed home because it's 4 1/2 
hours away. 

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Yeah, yeah. 
Yeah, and it was my mother's 

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vehicle too, so I needed to get 
it home because she needed it 

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for her own. 
OK, just whatever. 

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And so we ended up loading the 
car onto the trailer and do all 

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that. 
Next day comes and it's pretty 

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much like any other day except 
there was only three other 

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workers that showed up because 
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So there was only four workers 
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And then actually a specialist 
came in who was an ex certified 

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excavator driver, whatever. 
He came in with an excavator to 

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help remove a big portion of the
bridge because that morning we 

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had swapped from the fresh lane 
that we had just laid to 

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swapping the cones over to the 
other lane and starting to 

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destroy the other lane. 
And so that whole entire day, 

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cars that were coming through 
kept hitting the cones and the 

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water barriers, I'm guessing 
because they assumed they knew 

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where the cones were going to be
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But since we had swapped lanes, 
the cones were all moved around.

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Oh, man. 
And so that whole entire day, 

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cones and water barriers kept 
getting knocked out of place by 

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cars, and it was like 3334 
o'clock. 

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It was pretty close to the end 
of the day when my supervisor 

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yells down, I mean, come up here
and come up top, come up here. 

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I was down by the riverbed 
picking up rubble because there 

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was no, no one else at the job 
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There wasn't really anything, no
big jobs that you could do. 

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So all of us were just doing 
little, little hands on work 

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that we could do here and there.
And I don't, I don't know what 

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the problem was with the 
forklift driver, with the 

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certified forklift driver that 
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I don't know why the supervisor 
made him get out of the forklift

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and had asked me to get in in 
place of him. 

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I don't know what happened 
there, but supervisor ended up 

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asking me to jump in the 
forklift and move a water 

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barrier that had been knocked 
out of place back into place. 

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And as I'm going to hop in and 
he goes, I, I let him know that 

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I wasn't certified and he goes, 
well, do you know what you're 

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doing? 
I go well, I, I know how to 

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handle it, but he goes, well, 
just move the water barrier real

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quick and then that'll be it. 
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It was one of those like the 
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Oh yeah, So this forklift. 
Yellow Warehouse 1. 

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This isn't this isn't a regular 
yellow warehouse work OK. 

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This is like a. 
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Describe what it is. 
This is one of. 

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The other day that. 
I got it. 

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This is one of those like Big 
Blue telehandler forklifts that 

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you can either have a bucket or 
the forks on or whatever has the

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big old boom on it. 
The the big old arm that so you 

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can't see out the right side of 
the window at all because the 

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boom is stretched and whatnot. 
It's like it's a, it's a 10K 

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machine forklift. 
I I don't really know I'm. 

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Trying to picture it, we'll 
probably throw it up. 

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On screen, yeah, it's a yeah, 
it's a blue telehandler and it's

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all, it's only called a forklift
when you put the forks on it. 

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So somebody on the job site had 
previously shown in the controls

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to this forklift and I had 
watched over me as I tinkered 

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around with it on the job site. 
That's how I knew the controls 

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to it. 
And that's what I was telling 

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the supervisor. 
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we'll just move the water 
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off pretty much after that. 
So anyways, at the job site, 

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there wasn't any anyone 
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All we had were just automated 
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timers and I think it was like 5
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They would just turn red, turn 
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Well, anyways, I was driving the
forklift across the bridge, and 

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as I was driving the forklift 
across the bridge, I made it 

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about halfway and I see this 
line of vehicles on the other 

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end just start coming my way. 
Obviously the light turned green

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and this line of vehicles is 
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because there's like 1020 
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It's so backed up. 
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trailer, he's the one that's in 
the front of the line, and he 

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starts rolling forward and 
rolling forward more and more 

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and more. 
And he ends up going from, you 

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know, his lane to where the 
cones are starting to push him 

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into my only lane. 
And so at this point, he's just 

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barely over the line seeping 
into my lane and I'm trying to 

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get past his truck without 
scratching it and without 

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damaging the company machinery. 
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through without scratching this 
rancher's truck and whatnot on 

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my right, I can't see on my 
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my view completely obstructed. 
But I know that I'm close to the

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hillside. 
Well, that the water barrier was

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knocked out of place. 
That water barrier that was 

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supposed to be right there, 
that's the one I'm supposed to 

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be putting back in place. 
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Well, my right tires, as soon as
they hit that dirt that's not 

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compact on the very edge of the 
road, I just instantly tipped 

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and like went into a tip, like 
went into a slow tilt down a 50 

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foot hill. 
Oh my gosh. 

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And that's when fight or flight 
kicked in pretty much. 

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And it felt like it was like 
minutes, but it was maybe 

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seconds of, you know, and I 
tried to hit the tilt, to tilt 

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out of it, see if I could get 
the weight to come back and, you

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know, catch the whole machine 
and myself. 

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But it wasn't tilting. 
It was too far gone. 

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It was slow, slowly tilting over
and tipping down this 50 foot 

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hill. 
And so I went as it was at an 

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angle like this, I'd say 
upwards. 

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I went to go Superman dive out 
of the cab. 

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Oh my gosh. 
I unbuckled my seat belt and 

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went to Superman dive out of the
cab, which I blinked in midair 

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expecting to hit the road and be
all good. 

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But I blink and I open my eyes 
and I'm halfway down this 50 

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foot hill and I'm seeing this 
forklift roll down towards me. 

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Like I don't know if the seat 
belt wrapped around my leg and 

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flung me over the cab or I don't
know exactly how I was flung 

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over the top of the fork. 
This. 

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Is down 20,000 lbs. 
Yeah, but somehow I end up being

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flung over the top of the cab 
and I cleared the forklift to 

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where I end up flying down the 
50 foot hill, landed on the on 

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all the dirt that we had from 
the job site, which then broke 

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my collarbone, my scapula, my 
sternum and my. 

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Had a broken rib. 
And broken rib. 

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So now my whole like right rib 
cage and my right side and 

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everything in my body is raised 
compared to my left because of 

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how I hit. 
I landed on my right side and I 

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also got a very small brain 
bleed. 

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But that was only it for brain 
damage. 

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Was just a very small brain 
bleed from hitting the bottom of

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that 50 foot hill. 
But I hit the dirt pile and I 

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open my eyes and I see this 
forklift rolling down towards me

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and I watch it rolled the last 1
1/2 times. 

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It rolled 2 1/2 total. 
I was told I washed it roll the 

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last 1 1/2 and then I blink and 
I open my eyes and my forearm 

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muscle was got blown out from 
underneath the forklift when it 

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landed and it was literally in 
the dirt right next to my head 

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like spinning distance away. 
Like I could see every bead of 

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dust and dirt on it. 
And I've never been hunting in 

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my entire life or skin to deer 
or anything. 

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So like, and I knew I was 
looking at my forearm muscle and

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so like it on it made me throw 
up because it was so surreal and

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whatnot. 
But this entire time I, I'm I'm 

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freaking out. 
Of course, I'm I'm losing my 

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mind. 
I'm freaking the fuck out 

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telling get this forklift. 
Sorry, excuse me, I'm freaking 

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out saying get this forklift off
me, Please get it off me and do 

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this, do that. 
But there's only so much that 

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they can do in this, in this 
situation. 

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But what I guess what I was 
getting at those, I was in no 

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pain whatsoever because of all 
the adrenaline in my body. 

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And so I ended up being pinned 
underneath that forklift for 

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like 30 minutes total because 
where we were in Wilsall, 

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Montana, outside Wilsall, 
Montana, there was no phone 

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service whatsoever. 
So somebody had to literally 

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take off from the accident like 
in a car. 

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In a. 
Car to. 

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Go get cell service and get 
from. 

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The Hop of the Hill emergency to
call emergency services. 

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My gosh, the first emergency 
services that were there were 

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the Volunteer Fire Department 
from Wilson and Wilson, 250 

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people. 
And so they were like, we don't 

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know out. 
They were pretty much just there

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as moral support because they 
didn't know what to do. 

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But my supervisor, he when the 
accident first happened, he 

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immediately was, you know, on on
top of it because a kid, I just 

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gotten hurt on his job site. 
He immediately got across the 

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bridge, got the excavator, 
brought it all the way across 

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the bridge and brought it down 
the hill safely, and then got 

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the forklift all tied up to the 
excavator and was going to take 

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it off me. 
But a dude who was in the line 

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of vehicles, he saw the accident
happen and he hopped out of his 

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vehicle and ran down the hill. 
A random. 

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Guy wasn't a. 
Horse trailer guy. 

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You know. 
This was a random guy that was 

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in the line of vehicles behind 
the horse trailer guy. 

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Horse trailer guy actually 
called emergency services. 

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Yeah, he. 
Took off to get service and was 

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he was the first caller. 
OK, Yeah. 

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But the dude who ended up 
jumping out of his vehicle and 

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sat by my head during the 
accident, he was a veterinarian.

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Oh wow. 
And so the whole entire time 

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that I'm freaking out what not, 
he's making sure that I'm 

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conscious, he's making, he's 
getting my details, he's making 

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sure that I don't pass out, make
sure that he doesn't lose me 

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basically, and trying to keep me
as calm as he can and whatnot, 

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which I contacted him after the 
accident to thank him for. 

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Because I mean, he helped kept 
me grounded through that, yeah, 

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and helped immensely. 
But and I wouldn't be alive too 

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if it wasn't for his knowledge 
because my supervisor was going 

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to take the forklift off me 
within the 1st 5 minutes. 

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But the veterinarian said no 
don't take it off and for all we

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know that's what's keeping him 
alive. 

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And then so they kept I was 
pinned under it for 30-40 

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minutes, something like that. 
Wait and waited till Mercy 

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flight got there, which they 
then landed on the bridge, which

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my buddy Manny took care of all 
the cones and whatnot. 

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Like literally took every cone 
off the bridge himself. 

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And what what was what caught in
the rudder when the forklift? 

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What is what part of the 
forklift is pinning you down? 

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The boom. 
So the it's so that boom, Yep to

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the forklift is right across my 
waist, pinning the bottom of my 

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stomach to where I can like it's
even harder. 

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I'm struggling to even breathe 
and it's got my arm pinned too. 

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But yeah. 
And so I'm pinned 30-40 minutes 

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and I'm conscious the entire 
time. 

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Mercy flight lands on the 
bridge. 

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Bunch of glass and dust and dirt
goes on my eyeballs and they 

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think it's funny how I complain 
about that every time. 

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I was just thinking like. 
Actually. 

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Pinned on? 
Yeah, no big deal. 

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Forearms blown out next. 
How's my hair? 

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The dust. 
The dust in my eyes. 

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Is the well they? 
Blew a bunch of glass got blown 

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on my face. 
I know. 

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I know, maybe. 
But no. 

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So anyways, mercy flight gets 
there, they get their Gurney and

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they get come down the hill and 
they they, they kind of 

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struggled to get down the hill 
with this Gurney because it's a 

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straight decline of a hill and 
they kind of struggled to get me

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up to but they ended up getting.
So once they got there, then 

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they loaded the excavator up 
with the forklift and they 123 

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lifted it up and pulled me out 
and instantly covered my legs 

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with a blanket. 
So I couldn't see them, but I 

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did. 
I saw I saw flatness and blood 

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and bones sticking out of my car
hurt pants. 

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Oh man, so like I I saw it even 
when they tried to get were your

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legs. 
Complete is it? 

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Is the boom big enough to cover 
like your like kind of smashed 

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your legs down? 
Is that what it was or so the? 

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Boom, has my waist covered and 
then the rest is smashed by the 

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cab of the forklift. 
Pretty much so it was. 

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Still attached? 
Essentially, yes. 

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At that time he was still fully 
connected, he was just smushed, 

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OK. 
Yeah, and, and I was conscious 

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all the way the mercy flight and
I remember them when us landing 

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on the Halopad and it was like 
straight out of a movie 

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honestly, like how they depicted
movies. 

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There was like 2 doctors holding
the door and three nurses 

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holding the doors to the helipad
wide open. 

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But as soon as you got in the 
hallway, it was all white light,

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light, light like the in the 
movies into an all white room. 

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And then there was like 10 
doctors 10. 

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There's just like they were just
20 people running around like 

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their heads are cut off. 
And and then, and then that's 

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when they transferred me from 
the Gurney to the emergency room

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table. 
And then they started to cut my 

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Carhartt jacket and my pants off
of me. 

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And I went to go look at my legs
and the one of the nurses then 

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put my head down and put a strap
over it. 

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And it was like, we don't want 
you to move. 

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You might have spine damage or 
you might. 

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We don't want you to hurt 
yourself even more. 

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Pretty much. 
And then she put a mask over my 

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face. 
And that's when I was put into a

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drug induced coma. 
And then from then on is where? 

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Story. 
He wasn't very present. 

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So you're. 
Just having a normal day until 

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this point. 
Yeah, right at this. 

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Point like, so he'd be gone for 
four days. 

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You know he normally left late, 
you guys. 

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Were dating yeah we. 
We were living together and we 

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were dating. 
We had just. 

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We had been together for you 
weren't. 

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Married, right? 
Your boyfriend and girlfriend. 

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Yeah, We'd been together for 
about a year and a half. 

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We had been living together for 
about a year. 

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We moved in together very 
quickly. 

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But yeah, so I like we got 
pretty used to he like leave 

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Sunday night or early Monday 
morning, drive to the job site 

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and then I'd see him either 
Thursday night or Friday 

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morning, depending and then we'd
get the weekend together. 

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I was staying in the truck, 
can't put. 

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That no heater electricity. 
Yeah, I was roughing it, Yeah. 

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And so on Thursday, I remember 
he called me and he was like, my

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mom's car broke down, blah, 
blah, blah. 

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Like, can you take work off 
tomorrow and come pick me up? 

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And I was working at a credit 
union at the time and they were 

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like training me up to start 
working towards becoming a loan 

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officer. 
And I was like, no, like, I 

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don't want to miss work, blah, 
blah. 

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And we actually ended up getting
into a little like argument 

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about it. 
And then, and then that's when 

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your boss was like, oh, I can, 
you know. 

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And so I was at work when it 
happened and I was, I was 

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running the credit union that we
have on our Air Force Base. 

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And since it's so small, I was 
just by myself because it's 

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small. 
Let me preface. 

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This with the whole entire time 
mercy flight and people are 

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asking me for information and 
stuff. 

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The only number I'm repeating is
her phone number. 

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Wow, OK. 
So yeah. 

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And so I'm like, literally 
closing, like closing the bank. 

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Like, I had just closed the 
vault, put all the numbers in, 

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and I'm like walking out to lock
the door behind me when I get a 

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phone call from Bozeman. 
Yeah. 

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And so I was like, what, you 
know, And I answered it and it 

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was a nurse. 
And she was like, hi, like, is 

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this Sabia? 
Like you're the number we got 

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from Lauren. 
And I was like, what's going on?

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And they told me that he had 
been in a workplace accident and

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that he was in surgery. 
And that's all they could tell 

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me because I was just his 
girlfriend. 

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So like, I wasn't next of kin. 
They couldn't give me all the 

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details. 
And so they're like, we need you

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to get a hold of his mother, 
who's his next of kin and have 

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her call us so we can get her 
the actual details. 

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So all I knew was he was in an 
accident and he's in surgery 

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like nothing. 
Else no details how's he doing 

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could give me? 
They said he's stable and in 

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surgery or I don't even think 
they told me he was stable 

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because I don't think he was. 
But they just said he's in 

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surgery and he was in an 
accident. 

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And so I immediately hang up and
I call his mom. 

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I give her the number for the 
hospital and I'm like, I don't 

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know what happened, you know, 
like let me know when you know. 

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And my friend was coming in from
Missoula, which is like 3 hours 

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away to stay the weekend with 
us. 

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And so I remember I got in my 
car, I called my dad. 

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He was the first one I called. 
And I was like, Lauren got in an

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accident. 
Like I'm waiting to hear more 

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about this, you know, like, and 
I'm just kind of like because 

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I'm a catastrophizer, you know, 
so my brain's hitting me with 

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worst case scenarios, you know, 
and I and dad's like, you don't 

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know anything. 
You won't know till Santana 

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calls you back. 
Like just, you know. 

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And so then I had to the 
apartment. 

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Santana's my. 
Mom's yeah, sorry. 

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I had to our apartment and my 
friend is like arriving at the 

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same time as me, like, and I'm 
kind of like starting the extra 

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panic. 
And so she's like, let's go out 

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to your parents, you know, like 
while we wait because there's 

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nothing we can do right now, 
like let's drive out to your 

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parents. 
And so she ended up driving me 

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out to my parents for me. 
And they live about 30 minutes 

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away from us. 
And on the way out to my 

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parents, I got a call from his 
mom because she had gotten a 

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hold of the hospital. 
And we found out like he was in 

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a rollover in some equipment. 
And at the time he was in 

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surgery and they had to amputate
his arm. 

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And at that moment, they were 
dealing with internal bleeding 

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in his pelvic area. 
And like at that time, I believe

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there was like a single like 
knee amputation or something. 

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Or like they were saying that 
they might may need to amputate 

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the legs, something in that 
area. 

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And so we're like, holy crap. 
Like, OK. 

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And so like his mom's like, I'll
call you, you know, every update

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I get, I'll let you know. 
And I was like, OK, so we go out

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to my parents and. 
And. 

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Dad and I are just kind of 
sitting there for the next like 

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2-3 hours, just kind of like 
running through the motions, 

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trying to rationalize 
everything, trying to like based

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on the information we know, like
kind of getting a picture of 

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like what, what life was going 
to look like, what the 

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possibilities are. 
You know, like, 'cause obviously

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like they were kind of like 
settled with it, but it was 

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obvious that, you know, like, 
'cause at this point he's been 

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in surgery for like a couple 
hours already. 

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And then around 9:00, we got a 
call from them that he was being

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Mercy flighted to Seattle. 
And that I believe at that time 

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there was like some they 
couldn't like stop the internal 

447
00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:32,240
bleeding or something in his 
pelvis. 

448
00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:35,040
And, and the, the surgeons and 
doctors at Bozeman were just 

449
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,000
like that. 
Like we, he needs to go to like 

450
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,160
a top trauma hospital. 
Like we aren't equipped for 

451
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:41,680
this. 
And he got Mercy flighted to 

452
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:46,240
Harborview in Seattle. 
And then his mom and I got plane

453
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:49,560
tickets for the next flight out,
which was like 5:00 AM the next 

454
00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:53,080
morning. 
And so then we went, me and my 

455
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:55,800
friend, we went home. 
My cousin met us there at my 

456
00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:57,360
apartment, me and Lauren's 
apartment. 

457
00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:00,840
And they're like, get some 
sleep. 

458
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:02,440
You have an early flight 
tomorrow, you know. 

459
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:06,360
And so then we all get to sleep.
And around 4, AMI woke up to a 

460
00:26:06,360 --> 00:26:09,840
phone call from his sister, 
actually his older sister, 

461
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:13,600
because his mom was like too 
distraught to make the phone 

462
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:15,120
call. 
Like she called his sister. 

463
00:26:15,120 --> 00:26:18,640
And during that time, like she 
was threw up and had to like get

464
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:22,960
off the call because the update 
was his kidneys were failing. 

465
00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:25,280
They didn't know if he was going
to make it till morning. 

466
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:32,240
When we got there, they had to 
amputate his left leg to like 

467
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:35,640
the mid thigh and his right leg 
all the way to the hip. 

468
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:38,840
And yeah, his kidneys were 
failing. 

469
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:44,560
There was the internal bleeding 
in his pelvis, like was causing 

470
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:48,400
all sorts of issues. 
And like, yeah, pretty much they

471
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:53,240
were like, you know, his lung 
had collapsed, like, you know, 

472
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:56,160
And so yeah, they're like, this 
is the reality. 

473
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:59,680
Like we, we don't know if he'll 
make it till morning, stuff like

474
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:02,960
that. 
And yeah. 

475
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:05,680
And then around that time, when 
I got that call was around the 

476
00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:07,800
time to start getting ready to 
go to the airport. 

477
00:27:08,120 --> 00:27:12,320
So his mom and I got to the 
airport and then loaded up, flew

478
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:14,400
to Seattle. 
It was like an hour and a half 

479
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,920
flight. 
And my cousin, who lives in 

480
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:20,240
Seattle picked us up from the 
airport, brought us straight to 

481
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:23,200
Harborview. 
And we walked into the room and 

482
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:28,400
he was still alive, thankfully. 
But my brain and all of my like 

483
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:32,240
shock and trauma, I, I was for 
like .3 seconds, I was like, 

484
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:35,280
this is the wrong room, 'cause 
he was just taking up half a 

485
00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:36,840
bed. 
I was like, no, this little kids

486
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:38,280
room, like we're in the wrong 
room. 

487
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:41,640
And then it, my brain caught up 
and I was like, Nope, this is 

488
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:45,960
Lauren's room. 
And yeah, and that's like when 

489
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:49,880
we physically saw the severity 
of it and like he was hooked up 

490
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:55,200
to all sorts of tubes. 
And and then the timeline for my

491
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:59,400
brain gets a little, I don't 
remember what the timeline here 

492
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:04,200
is, but at some point within 
while we're here, the doctors 

493
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:07,800
bring us back. 
His grandma and his sister and 

494
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,400
his mom and I are all the ones 
there at the moment. 

495
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:12,840
Doctors bring us back to let us 
know. 

496
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:17,280
Kind of like at this time, 
they're like, he's dying. 

497
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:21,560
Like his skin is Dick like 
dying, like we amputated it, but

498
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:23,760
it's still like it's not getting
the correct blood flow. 

499
00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:31,000
Like his kidneys are like not 
really working for us. 

500
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:35,880
Like he was on an intubator and 
they had him in like a drug coma

501
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:41,280
pretty much like he was out and 
they were like, you know, this 

502
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:43,040
is where we're at. 
They're like, but they, they, 

503
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:45,840
they did tell us they're like, 
we're not going to stop fighting

504
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:49,240
to try and find a solution here.
But this is where we're sitting 

505
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:55,120
right now. 
And then the next day we were 

506
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:59,240
brought in again because, 
because it's a teaching 

507
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:03,840
hospital, one of, I believe it 
was one of the medical students 

508
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:09,040
that was like on rotation had 
discovered the single case study

509
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:12,960
from like the 90s on 
hemicorporectomy surgery, which 

510
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:18,160
is the what Lawrence surgery is 
the removal of the second-half 

511
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:21,400
of the body. 
And there was a single case 

512
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:26,640
study done in like 1996 or 
something and there were like 12

513
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:30,000
reported successful cases. 
And it was like a. 

514
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:33,280
Military veteran, that, Yeah. 
Yeah. 

515
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:39,520
And so like it was this very 
like obscure surgery and this I 

516
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:44,080
believe it was a medical student
who brought it to like the the 

517
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:48,720
Lawrence team this. 
Surgery does happen more 

518
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,760
frequently when it's infection 
induced. 

519
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:56,240
Like there's case studies of it 
of hemicorporectomy surgery 

520
00:29:56,240 --> 00:30:00,840
happening to other people, but 
all those were infection 

521
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:03,760
induced. 
There's only one other case 

522
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:08,520
where it was trauma induced and 
like my case, only one. 

523
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:09,880
Other. 
Surgery. 

524
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:12,040
There's only one case study. 
Yeah, yeah. 

525
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:13,920
That's what. 
I mean, yeah, case study, but. 

526
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,840
There, but there's a bunch. 
Of other people out there that 

527
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:20,960
have had the hemicorporectomy 
surgery that have had it due to 

528
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:23,320
bone infections and what right 
not because of. 

529
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:25,800
Forklifts not because of the. 
Trauma, right? 

530
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:27,120
Yeah. 
And so the. 

531
00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:30,240
Trauma aspect is what was. 
So yeah, because there was. 

532
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:34,880
No, like build up when you go at
it from the like bone infection,

533
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:37,600
whatever, like you're building 
up to this surgery, you know, 

534
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:41,800
for this it was, but it was 
still very obscure, right? 

535
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:44,960
Nobody really knew it and Med 
student brought it to the 

536
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:48,040
attention. 
So the doctors were like, as it 

537
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:51,720
stands, this is the only way to 
save him, you know, and, and 

538
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,760
they told his mom like as next 
of kin, like it's kind of, you 

539
00:30:54,760 --> 00:31:00,360
know, your choice on we can do 
like palliative comfort care and

540
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:05,160
kind of like Hospice, you know, 
or we can try the surgery and 

541
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,640
they let us know like, it's a 
very risky surgery. 

542
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:10,280
It's very long surgery. 
There's no guarantee he'll make 

543
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:11,680
it off the table. 
What's the time? 

544
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:13,920
Frame this is within 40. 8 
hours. 

545
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:17,200
Wow, yeah, this is like. 
So you're. 

546
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,280
Obviously still in a cone. 
Yeah, he's on. 

547
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:23,000
The Yeah, this was like the 
morning after his mom and I flew

548
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,960
in. 
They they, they, they end up 

549
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:29,480
doing the hemicorporectomy 
surgery within 48 hours of the 

550
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:31,280
accident happening. 
It was within. 

551
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:37,680
Like 72, but yeah, within the 
first week of being in a very 

552
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:39,440
short. 
Amount of time this is taking 

553
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:41,720
place, yeah. 
And so everything's happening 

554
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:43,080
like. 
Yeah, yeah. 

555
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,120
Yeah, 'cause this is the morning
after we flew in and they tell 

556
00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:50,800
us about the hemicorporectomy 
and his mom was having a hard 

557
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,920
time with the decision. 
You know, like, on one hand it's

558
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:58,560
sign DNR and let my son die, and
on the other hand it's go 

559
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:01,280
through with this surgery that 
he may or may not survive and 

560
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:05,600
also make the choice for him of 
like, oh, no more genitalia, 

561
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:08,760
stuff like that. 
And so she was having a hard 

562
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,080
time with that decision. 
She hates me for this. 

563
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:12,120
Decision. 
Exactly what? 

564
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:15,320
If he hates me for choosing to 
make him live, but also can I 

565
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:17,880
live with myself on not trying 
this surgery? 

566
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:20,840
And so Lauren's sister ended up 
asking the doctor. 

567
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:25,240
She was like, can, like, is it 
plausible for us to wake Lauren 

568
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:26,600
up? 
Like, can you bring him down on 

569
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,640
some of the drugs? 
And like, can you get him to a 

570
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:33,120
coherent enough space where like
he can make his own? 

571
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:34,640
Decision. 
Yeah, decision. 

572
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,640
Rationally and they're like, 
yes. 

573
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:40,840
And so then his mom just had to 
sign off in agreement to letting

574
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:47,400
him, which I think was the most 
like ethical way to go about it 

575
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,560
is letting the person who's 
going through it make the 

576
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:53,560
decision. 
And so then that whole day 

577
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:57,160
started the process of like 
bringing him off the drug slowly

578
00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:02,440
and all of this, you know, and 
then they was finally in a point

579
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:06,520
where he was like coherent and 
conscious enough for which one 

580
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:08,560
of the. 
Very first things. 

581
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,840
So I was, I had an intubator in 
my mouth so I couldn't speak. 

582
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:15,080
But when they brought me, 
started bringing me to 

583
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:18,560
consciousness, one of the very 
first things that I wrote to her

584
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:20,280
was am I going to be in a 
wheelchair? 

585
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:23,240
Yeah, so. 
He already like, he remembered. 

586
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:25,520
Were you like? 
In your coma, do you remember 

587
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:27,240
dreaming? 
I mean, was there anything going

588
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:28,880
on? 
It wasn't. 

589
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:32,680
Like an official coma. 
They just had him on so many 

590
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,600
drugs that he was just asleep. 
He would have some experience. 

591
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:37,520
Yeah, he. 
Would have closed on Academy. 

592
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,000
He'd open his. 
Eyes and kind of look at us here

593
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:41,920
and there, but like he wasn't 
really present. 

594
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:43,680
Like it wasn't like a there was 
moments. 

595
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:45,600
Where I thought there was snow 
falling in my room. 

596
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,320
OK, Yeah, yeah, he. 
Was just in there OK. 

597
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:52,720
Yeah, but at. 
Yeah, up to this point, he's 

598
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,880
just on so many drugs that he's 
not really awake. 

599
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:59,640
And then they brought him out 
and yeah, they explained the 

600
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:04,000
severity of the surgery to him, 
the severity of like where he's 

601
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:05,840
at now. 
And kind of like how it's like 

602
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:12,199
we can either get you really 
comfy because like also his so 

603
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:16,199
his skin, his room, what was 
still remaining of his limbs. 

604
00:34:16,199 --> 00:34:19,440
Like you could smell it dying 
off. 

605
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:22,560
Like I don't know if you've ever
smelled like necrosis or 

606
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:25,040
anything, but it's a very 
distinct smell. 

607
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:28,760
And you could smell like pretty 
much like the death of his body.

608
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:33,760
And they were like, it's either 
get you really comfy and kind of

609
00:34:34,679 --> 00:34:39,520
let these infections take over 
and you go, or this surgery, you

610
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:42,679
know, and, and they didn't hold 
back on the severity of the 

611
00:34:42,679 --> 00:34:44,000
surgery. 
You know, like there's no 

612
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,760
guarantee you'll make it off the
table and you will be losing 

613
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:48,400
everything below your belly 
button. 

614
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:51,400
Like we don't know if you'll 
ever be able to sit up again 

615
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:55,040
because you have no, you'll have
no pelvic bones to support your,

616
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:58,440
your weight or any of your 
internal organs. 

617
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:00,080
Are are you in the? 
Room when they're telling him 

618
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:04,560
this, yes. 
Yeah, and and and you know, like

619
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:09,120
you, you might be bed bound for 
the rest of your life because 

620
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:11,560
also at this time, none of us, 
since we had all just learned 

621
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:14,600
about the hemicorporectomy, none
of us knew about any prosthetic 

622
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:16,520
possibilities for that or 
anything. 

623
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,680
And Lauren, literally he was 
like, I don't care if I'm a head

624
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:22,920
on a plate, like I want you to 
save me or at least try. 

625
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:30,120
They bring. 
You out of this induced TOMA and

626
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:34,520
there's I mean they're just 
dumping on you like this like 

627
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:36,640
50. 
People there too because it is a

628
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:39,920
teaching. 
So they had like the main doctor

629
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:44,800
and like 2 main surgeons and 
then like 30 students behind 

630
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:46,760
them during all of this. 
Well, what is? 

631
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:48,440
What are you? 
Thinking what's going through 

632
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:52,520
your mind so it's going through.
My SO I when I was under the 

633
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:55,360
forklift, I knew that life was 
going to be different from here 

634
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:58,280
on out. 
I knew that my limbs are gone, 

635
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,600
that I was going to, I knew for 
sure I was missing my arm. 

636
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:04,840
I wasn't sure if I was going to 
end up in a wheelchair or not 

637
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:07,840
with the with the loss of my 
legs, but I knew my legs were 

638
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:12,600
going to be beyond repair. 
And so that's why when one of 

639
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:14,920
the first things I asked her 
was, am I going to be in a 

640
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:16,680
wheelchair? 
Because I, I needed that 

641
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:20,160
confirmation, I guess somebody 
to confirm that. 

642
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:24,120
Yeah. 
What happened, it is really what

643
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:26,880
happened and this is really 
happening and stuff. 

644
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:34,440
But what was going through my 
mind was how I had all these 

645
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:37,840
dreams and ambitions to, you 
know, move forward and do all 

646
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:42,160
these different things. 
But, and I wasn't just going to 

647
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:47,760
give up and just because I lost 
my legs and lost my arm. 

648
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:57,440
And so, like in my head, I 
didn't care if I was like, like 

649
00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:59,920
Nixon from Futurama with the 
head in the jar. 

650
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:03,000
That's exactly what I was 
thinking of when I told him I 

651
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:04,360
don't care for my head on a 
plate. 

652
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:06,760
Do what you need to do because 
wow. 

653
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:09,000
I mean. 
Yeah. 

654
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:12,840
It's. 
I don't know, I I just knew life

655
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:22,680
was going to be different and 
that all my goals in dreams 

656
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:28,680
we're going to have to change. 
But I was ready to do it. 

657
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:38,360
It because I don't know about 
you, but I don't know what's on 

658
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:48,320
the other side. 
That's scares the I don't know 

659
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:52,880
if there's a heaven, I don't 
know if there's a hell, I don't 

660
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,320
know if any diet just goes all 
black. 

661
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:57,320
I don't know what's on the other
side. 

662
00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:02,840
So I was going to do absolutely 
anything and everything. 

663
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:07,640
I couldn't stay like on this 
side of the fence kind of deal, 

664
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:16,040
especially because in my drug 
induced coma in The Cave hole 

665
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:23,680
that I was in, I had quite a few
scary crazy trips that happened 

666
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:29,200
that made me afraid to die 
naturals. 

667
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:35,120
Yeah. 
But not yeah, I don't know it, 

668
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:38,880
just that I think there's a 
heaven. 

669
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:40,240
And I think guys got a plan for 
you. 

670
00:38:40,240 --> 00:38:42,760
I'm just going to throw that out
there anyway. 

671
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:48,680
But so you're so these nurses 
and doctors are all telling you 

672
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:51,200
what's going to happen. 
You make the decision. 

673
00:38:51,720 --> 00:38:52,440
Yeah. 
And then? 

674
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:57,960
From there it was just they I. 
Thought in the same breath that 

675
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:00,080
they're explaining the 
hemicorporectomy surgery, 

676
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:04,520
they're also asking if there's 
if they can find any viable 

677
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:11,040
sperm do I want to keep it safe 
or cryo and freeze it freeze it,

678
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:15,160
whatever yeah and so I had to 
sign a bunch of paperwork saying

679
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:17,280
that they could freeze it and 
store it well the. 

680
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:20,280
Paperwork was. 
The paperwork. 

681
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:27,480
Was also used signing ownership 
so also with it because of the 

682
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:33,600
trauma and the rush put on it 
there they wouldn't be able to 

683
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:38,360
essentially test it to make sure
it's STI free this and all of 

684
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:42,360
that pretty much and so he had 
to like pretty much choose 

685
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:47,600
ownership for it if he died like
if I die and this sperm is saved

686
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:52,200
only one person can have it 
pretty much because and that 

687
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:55,320
person also had to sign and 
agree that they understand there

688
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:58,600
was no testing done. 
There's no guarantee that it's 

689
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:03,160
like tell the safe, whatever. 
That's what all that paperwork 

690
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:05,880
was with. 
But they didn't end up it was 

691
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:09,160
there was none salvageable, but 
too much. 

692
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:12,560
Metal. 
Dirt and whatever makes sense, 

693
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:15,040
yeah. 
But yeah, after that it moved 

694
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:19,280
pretty quickly. 
They all got ready for the 

695
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:21,600
surgery, got him ready for the 
surgery. 

696
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:27,520
We found out later that there 
was a surgeon who had actually 

697
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:34,440
performed A hemicorporectomy 
like 15 years prior, was in 

698
00:40:34,720 --> 00:40:37,960
Seattle at that time for like a 
conference or something. 

699
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:40,960
He got wind of it and he 
actually ended up coming to 

700
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:44,640
Harborview. 
And like, I don't know if he was

701
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:47,520
involved, involved in the 
surgery or if he came as like a 

702
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:52,080
consult, but we did later find 
out that like he was involved at

703
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:55,400
some in some way with Lauren's 
surgery because he had actually 

704
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:58,200
performed 1X amount of years 
ago. 

705
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:04,040
And yeah, so and when his 
surgery came, it was like 8 

706
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:06,200
hours, I believe he was in 
surgery. 

707
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:11,800
And then after that they had to 
leave him open. 

708
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:20,080
So the way that he the way that 
he was cut basically and the way

709
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:26,560
his skin was dying, they pretty 
much couldn't afford to have to 

710
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:30,760
cut anymore away. 
And so they had to make sure 

711
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:33,320
that all of the skin and 
everything was getting the 

712
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:35,880
correct blood flow before they 
closed him up. 

713
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:38,960
Otherwise, like if they closed 
him up and then that skin 

714
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:39,920
started dying. 
Wow. 

715
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:43,080
Yeah, pretty much. 
Then there is no solution. 

716
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:47,480
So I don't know if it was 12 
hours or 24 hours or six hours, 

717
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:50,480
I don't remember. 
Again, it was all very but my 

718
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:53,200
organs. 
Were literally in bags on the 

719
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:57,240
bed and well, I was I I don't. 
Think they were like in bags on 

720
00:41:57,240 --> 00:42:00,120
the bed? 
I think they were bagged and you

721
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:04,720
had like a a dressing of sorts, 
but you were open. 

722
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:09,280
He wasn't so well, you must. 
Have been like some super clean 

723
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:10,960
room or something. 
Yeah, he was. 

724
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:17,600
Like in the Super ICU of like 
top tier trauma hospital, like 

725
00:42:17,720 --> 00:42:20,760
nobody could come in without 
gloves, gown. 

726
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:24,160
Yeah, it even had like. 
An airlock on it like like if he

727
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:26,000
left super super it could. 
Start beeping. 

728
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:27,840
Because really. 
Yeah. 

729
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:33,240
He was in like one of those like
super and then they had to leave

730
00:42:33,240 --> 00:42:37,000
him open for X amount of time. 
I seem to remember it wasn't 

731
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:41,960
very long but also that hold 
it's a blur for me. 

732
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:46,720
And then he went back into 
surgery for another like 6 hours

733
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:49,640
for them to 'cause it was all 
good, you know? 

734
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:54,400
And then they closed him up and 
then, yeah, and then they were. 

735
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:58,960
Gonna go back in after I had 
healed up a bit and cauterized 

736
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:03,760
my damaged nerves, but I had so 
many complications after the 

737
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:07,400
surgery that they weren't able 
to go back in and cauterize 

738
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:10,720
those damaged nerves before I 
ended up and then by the time 

739
00:43:10,720 --> 00:43:12,520
all. 
Those complications were gone, 

740
00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:16,440
no one was really willing to 
open him back up because the the

741
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:19,920
risk far outweighs the reward 
type of situation. 

742
00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:22,120
But yeah. 
And then after the surgery, 

743
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:28,800
there were so it like went 
really great. 

744
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:33,600
And then his lung, they like 
took him off the intubator and 

745
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:41,880
stuff and he ended up having a 
small like a tiny pulmonary 

746
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:44,560
embolism or something like that,
I can't quite remember. 

747
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:50,120
But then at one point his left 
lung collapsed and they had to 

748
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:53,200
reintubate him. 
And then they found out that he 

749
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:57,360
had an abdominal infection that 
was like from the surgery. 

750
00:43:57,360 --> 00:43:59,880
From the surgery and. 
It was like leading towards his 

751
00:43:59,880 --> 00:44:02,360
spine. 
It was honeycombing. 

752
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:04,680
Around my abdomen. 
It wasn't honeycombed. 

753
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:07,760
At that point, slowly reaching. 
Towards my spine honeycomb. 

754
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:11,760
No, the honeycomb was the one in
his abdomen, but it didn't start

755
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:14,000
honeycombing until we were in 
Great Falls. 

756
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:17,600
After this decision was made, it
was still just a massive 

757
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:20,920
infection that wasn't draining 
and was just getting worse. 

758
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:25,160
And that mixed with the lung 
stuff going on and he had like 

759
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:28,520
intubated induced pneumonia or 
something like that. 

760
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:31,320
And like, so like the surgery 
was good, but it was still like 

761
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:35,040
he's dying pretty much, 
especially with the embolism. 

762
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:36,720
Yeah. 
Lungs. 

763
00:44:37,240 --> 00:44:39,440
Lungs clot. 
Blood clot in the lungs 

764
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:46,080
intubated to induce pneumonia, 
abdominal infection, and I think

765
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:47,800
there was. 
Something else. 

766
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:49,720
There was one other. 
There were all these. 

767
00:44:49,720 --> 00:44:51,920
Complications going but my 
kidneys were fail. 

768
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:55,040
Weren't they weren't failing. 
But you're they weren't one of 

769
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:57,960
your kidneys was struggling or 
something. 

770
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:01,440
But yeah, we pretty much got 
told like he's. 

771
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:06,040
He's dying left and right or 
there's things going wrong left 

772
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:07,720
and right. 
He might die. 

773
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:10,840
What do you guys want to do? 
And that's when it was pretty 

774
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:14,320
much brought to my attention of,
hey, you're dying. 

775
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:16,240
We've done pretty much all we 
can do. 

776
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:19,720
Do you want to go DNR or do you 
want to? 

777
00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:22,240
The options are. 
Pretty much stay in this 

778
00:45:22,240 --> 00:45:25,240
hospital, try to fight the 
infection with the risk of dying

779
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:29,960
or go DNR into Hospice care. 
How long were you at the 

780
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:31,400
hospital? 
At this point, like a. 

781
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:33,760
Week See. 
But weeks. 

782
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:35,680
But coming out of my How long 
were we? 

783
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:39,680
Two weeks because. 
I was there two weeks, OK. 

784
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:42,400
So we. 
Were there for about two weeks 

785
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:46,520
and the doctor comes up and says
you're having a complication 

786
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:48,400
after complication. 
We don't know if you've got 

787
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:50,160
survivions. 
Here are the. 

788
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:54,040
Options and I'm coming out of 
another drug induced coma. 

789
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:56,760
No, no. 
You were not in another drug 

790
00:45:56,760 --> 00:45:58,880
induced coma. 
You were just on a lot of drugs.

791
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:00,480
OK, I was just on. 
A lot of drugs. 

792
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:08,640
And so to me, the way that I, 
the way it came to me in my mind

793
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:13,000
and whatnot, and it's not how it
went, but this is how I, this is

794
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:15,680
what I was thinking in the 
moment and why I made the 

795
00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:21,400
decision I made and whatnot is 
the way it was proposed to me 

796
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:25,680
was, Hey, you're dying. 
What, since you're dying, what's

797
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:28,760
your death wish? 
And that's when I told them, Oh,

798
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:34,960
if I'm dying, I want to die in 
my 68 Ford on the, on the, on 

799
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:40,080
the laying on the bench seat 
while listening to music, the 

800
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:43,040
engine on smoking a joint. 
That's how I want to go out. 

801
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:47,560
And that's when they brought the
DNR Do not Resuscitate orders up

802
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:50,200
and had me sign the do not 
resuscitate orders. 

803
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:53,280
And that's when I was 
transferred from Harborview, 

804
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:57,400
then back to Great Falls, Mt to 
my hometown, to the Hospice. 

805
00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:00,560
To the. 
Hospice and that's when we got 

806
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:03,800
to Hospice. 
That's when I realized and 

807
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:07,880
learned what Hospice was, was 
end of life palliative care. 

808
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:13,080
And at that moment, I was still 
on feeding. 

809
00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:14,640
Tube Ng feeding. 
Tube. 

810
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:17,760
Yeah, because and my stomach 
wasn't working, so they're 

811
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:20,960
feeding me through the tube. 
Well, in Hospice they don't do 

812
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:23,720
any palliative preventive care. 
Preventive. 

813
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:26,720
Preventive care. 
And so they're they're just end.

814
00:47:26,720 --> 00:47:30,000
Of life, we keep you comfy until
it's your time. 

815
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:32,560
So they don't do anything to 
keep you alive, right? 

816
00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:34,760
Yeah, yeah, so due. 
To me having an Ng tube, my 

817
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:37,760
stomach not working, what would 
have happened was they would 

818
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:41,760
have just fed me methadone until
I passed away from the infection

819
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:44,120
or from my lungs collapsing or 
whatever. 

820
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:49,920
And as soon as I realized that, 
you know, I still do have a 

821
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:53,960
chance actually. 
And you know, Hospice is 

822
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:59,840
literally end of life stuff. 
And I, you know, I wasn't 

823
00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:03,840
looking to die or pass away. 
I was looking to fight if I 

824
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:06,000
could. 
And once I realized what Hospice

825
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:08,480
was, I wanted out of there as 
soon as possible. 

826
00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:10,760
And so I pulled my do not 
resuscitate orders. 

827
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:15,640
And since I had my do not 
resuscitate orders pulled, they 

828
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:18,440
then had to kick me out of 
Hospice essentially naturally. 

829
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:22,040
And then that's when I was moved
from Hospice to the hospital to 

830
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:26,440
the ICU in Great Falls, to 
benefits health system. 

831
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:28,680
Yeah. 
And then that's where I like, 

832
00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:31,240
just bounce back. 
I was just gonna say that. 

833
00:48:31,240 --> 00:48:33,920
Must have been like a total 
mental shift for you, right? 

834
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:37,520
Like, yeah. 
I feel like and it like it. 

835
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:40,840
Was explained like they didn't 
just ship him off to Hospice 

836
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:44,840
without explaining it. 
He I just think that his brain 

837
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:48,920
didn't grab the concept until we
were there because he when was 

838
00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:49,840
on too many. 
Drugs. 

839
00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:50,960
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 
For. 

840
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:54,120
Sure, from the outside. 
Perspective it looked like 

841
00:48:54,120 --> 00:48:57,640
Lauren understood what was being
explained to him by the doctors,

842
00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:01,480
you know, and all of this and 
yeah, then by the time we got 

843
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:04,280
there, he was like, what do you 
mean I can't have a feeding 

844
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:07,480
tube? 
And I was like, what do you 

845
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:10,040
mean? 
You know, And obviously I was 

846
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:20,760
super happy that he pulled that 
'cause that was, yeah, get into 

847
00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:23,720
the fighting zone. 
But then benefits is where we 

848
00:49:23,720 --> 00:49:25,960
start. 
Found out that the abdominal 

849
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:28,840
infection has started 
honeycombing and when honeycombs

850
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:31,920
it makes it really hard for them
to drain it because 2. 

851
00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:36,560
Different drains of my abdomen. 
Yeah, yeah. 

852
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:38,880
And that one was honeycombing 
towards his spine. 

853
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:43,200
And so then we were in benefits 
for about a month with them 

854
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:47,080
dealing with this infection and,
and, but as pretty much as soon 

855
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:49,640
as we were home though, like 
there was noticeable change in 

856
00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:52,000
Lauren, like his, his since we 
were in benefits. 

857
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:55,440
Yeah, that's what I meant, yeah.
So. 

858
00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:59,080
Like his wounds were healing up 
way, like starting to heal up 

859
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:02,000
quicker. 
Like he was more active, he was 

860
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:06,200
more aware and it was just 
really that infection that we 

861
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:08,080
were dealing with. 
Like all the other things, like 

862
00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:11,120
his lungs were like they just 
perked right up. 

863
00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:13,960
And like he had to do like some 
breathing treatments, you know, 

864
00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:17,040
like the, the plastic thing with
the like the ball in it or 

865
00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:19,240
whatever. 
But like within like a week, 

866
00:50:19,240 --> 00:50:21,840
like his lungs were back to 
like, oh, we're working great. 

867
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:25,240
And his kidneys were doing 
better, like, and it was just 

868
00:50:25,240 --> 00:50:28,040
that infection. 
And then over that month, they 

869
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:32,600
ended up getting to a point 
where they were able to swirl it

870
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:35,240
pretty much to get rid of the 
honeycomb suddenly stuck. 

871
00:50:35,240 --> 00:50:37,720
A wire in me and. 
Just cut. 

872
00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:38,560
Open. 
OK. 

873
00:50:38,560 --> 00:50:39,960
All right. 
Yeah, I mean, I don't. 

874
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:42,600
Know exactly what happened, but 
they broke. 

875
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:44,640
They got it out. 
They both go on inner. 

876
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:47,880
Walls of the honeycomb so that 
it was just one big Abscess 

877
00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:52,000
rather than like a maze, you 
know, And then that was through 

878
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:55,840
the singular drain. 
And then Lauren was at like a 

879
00:50:55,840 --> 00:50:59,600
stable enough point and healed 
up enough because just within 

880
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:03,480
that month of being back home, 
like his, his scarring had 

881
00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:05,520
already started, like kind of 
healed up enough to. 

882
00:51:05,520 --> 00:51:08,000
Where they were able to pull the
stitches out, Yeah. 

883
00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:12,160
And that's, and then that's when
he was sent to Shirley Ryan in 

884
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:17,240
Chicago for rehabilitation, for 
prosthetics and wound care. 

885
00:51:17,240 --> 00:51:22,040
Like kind of that's where they 
kind of help him adjust to his 

886
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:26,320
new, like reality pretty much, 
Yep. 

887
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:30,080
So what is the new? 
Reality for you like. 

888
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:38,880
After the accident, like 
initially new reality was 

889
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:43,520
pretty, pretty difficult because
I was pretty much fully 

890
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:49,040
dependent on somebody else for 
help when I was not dependent on

891
00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:52,920
anyone for help before. 
And so really it it, it was 

892
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:59,160
difficult to start to voice 
things and ask for things that I

893
00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:01,560
needed and need help with. 
Oh, wow. 

894
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:02,600
Yeah, right. 
You. 

895
00:52:03,080 --> 00:52:05,280
You felt like you were putting 
somebody out maybe, or you 

896
00:52:05,280 --> 00:52:06,800
wanted to do this yourself 
instead. 

897
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:08,520
Independent. 
Independent. 

898
00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:12,480
Yeah, ask for help. 
Isn't really his specialty, so. 

899
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:19,000
That is still something I I 
struggle with today, but how do 

900
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:20,600
you feel when? 
People try to help you though, 

901
00:52:20,720 --> 00:52:23,920
do you feel? 
I don't get put off by people 

902
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:25,800
trying to help me or anything 
like that. 

903
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:29,840
It's just me. 
Me learning how to voice and 

904
00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:31,920
advocate for myself and not 
feeling. 

905
00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:35,440
Like a burden that was a big 
thing in the beginning was like 

906
00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:39,680
every everything that I learned 
how to do for him and how to 

907
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:41,360
help him with. 
Like there were constant 

908
00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:45,200
apologies for like, like I'd 
have to help him transfer over 

909
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:48,080
onto this thing and he'd like 
apologize for like needing help.

910
00:52:48,080 --> 00:52:51,680
And I'm like, no, like you don't
apologize for existing, you 

911
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:56,600
know, And that was a big thing. 
But, but once we were in rehab, 

912
00:52:56,960 --> 00:52:59,320
honestly, the transition was 
really nice. 

913
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:04,760
They like started immediately on
working on his phantom pain. 

914
00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:09,440
His other pains like doing 
stretches everyday was PTOTPT 

915
00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:14,600
working with prostheticians. 
They taught me how to do his 

916
00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:18,760
ostomy care, his wound care, how
to help him with stretches. 

917
00:53:18,960 --> 00:53:23,120
They like they showed us like 
some bath cot options. 

918
00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:26,640
He got his first real shower 
since the accident while we were

919
00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:30,000
in rehab and we were there for 
we got there. 

920
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:32,360
That's the picture you. 
See me doing like this, you 

921
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:33,760
knees and like that. 
Purple. 

922
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:36,120
Yeah, yeah. 
That was his first real shower 

923
00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:39,240
after the accident. 
And yeah, we just kind of, they 

924
00:53:39,240 --> 00:53:43,120
taught us like we practice like 
vehicle transfers. 

925
00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:46,800
We once his prosthetic, his 
trial, original trial prosthetic

926
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:50,960
was made, we practice getting 
that on wheelchair transfers. 

927
00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:56,400
They taught him exercises to do 
to kind of keep his body not 

928
00:53:56,400 --> 00:54:00,000
only like in shape, but these 
exercises that help with his 

929
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:02,880
pain. 
Wheelchair practice. 

930
00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:06,880
You know, they took us out 
around town to get used to being

931
00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:10,320
in a power chair, like they just
the whole 9 yards and we were 

932
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:13,720
there for two months. 
Which we should have stayed 

933
00:54:13,720 --> 00:54:17,680
there longer, yeah, but we. 
Were ready to go home I bet. 

934
00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:22,120
So as soon as we got the trial 
prosthetic and the infection was

935
00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:27,320
fully gone and he didn't need to
be in the medical lace anymore, 

936
00:54:27,320 --> 00:54:29,040
we're like, can we go home? 
And just like, come? 

937
00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:31,360
Yeah, right. 
Like we're ready to go home. 

938
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:37,320
But yeah, no, the rehab moved 
very quickly and every day was 

939
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:39,880
learning something new. 
We're practicing something we've

940
00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:42,760
been practicing. 
And it made the transition to 

941
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:46,160
home really easy. 
Like by the time we got home, we

942
00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:48,800
knew everything we need to do, 
and we slipped into that new 

943
00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:50,520
reality. 
Yeah, I'd. 

944
00:54:50,520 --> 00:54:54,320
Say with the with the test trial
body prosthetic that I had 

945
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:58,960
initially coming out of rehab, 
life was pretty great. 

946
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:01,600
I was able to be pretty 
independent. 

947
00:55:01,600 --> 00:55:06,320
Like I could get up by myself by
6:00 in the morning. 

948
00:55:06,560 --> 00:55:11,280
I could brush my teeth, do my 
hair, get ready, do all my empty

949
00:55:11,280 --> 00:55:13,760
my bags, all that sort of like 
from. 

950
00:55:14,040 --> 00:55:16,840
A bed, yeah, to the prosthetic 
could do it all. 

951
00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:19,080
Himself so I can get. 
One say it. 

952
00:55:19,080 --> 00:55:22,680
So right after rehab, we get 
home. 

953
00:55:22,840 --> 00:55:26,640
This is how daily life was for 
the first year until I got the 

954
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:29,600
finalized body prosthetic, which
I'm in now. 

955
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:33,880
So this is how mornings would 
go. 

956
00:55:34,120 --> 00:55:38,440
I wake up at say like 6. 
I then get myself up in my body 

957
00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:41,920
prosthetic and then transfer 
myself from body prosthetic to 

958
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:47,040
wheelchair, buffle myself. 
And then I would then take my 

959
00:55:47,440 --> 00:55:50,840
nephrostomy bags that I had at 
the time, the 2 bags of my 

960
00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:53,880
kidneys. 
I'd then rolled to the bathroom,

961
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:57,160
empty those in the bathroom, 
flush the toilet, whatever. 

962
00:55:57,360 --> 00:56:00,840
Then I'd roll up to the sink, 
I'd brush my teeth, I'd wet down

963
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:05,800
my hair, I'd, you know, brush my
beard hair, whatever, Get ready 

964
00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:10,920
for the day, wash my face. 
And then from then there, I 

965
00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:14,560
would then either, you know, go 
play my video games, I'd watch 

966
00:56:14,560 --> 00:56:19,400
TV or, you know, just start my 
day, whatever, whatever my day 

967
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:22,160
consisted of. 
But as soon as I got the 

968
00:56:22,160 --> 00:56:26,880
finalized body prosthetic, it 
ripped away like 90% of my 

969
00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:31,120
independence because so. 
I don't know if you can see like

970
00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:35,040
how large it actually is 
compared to like his body. 

971
00:56:35,040 --> 00:56:37,520
That's oh wow. 
Like OK. 

972
00:56:38,280 --> 00:56:42,480
So inside of here are all these 
air cushions. 

973
00:56:42,480 --> 00:56:43,960
I don't know if you can see it 
from there. 

974
00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:46,440
It's called the Roho. 
Yeah, yeah. 

975
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:49,800
And so the entire prosthetic has
those inside of them. 

976
00:56:49,800 --> 00:56:53,120
And, and the thing about the 
Roho prosthetic is it is great 

977
00:56:53,120 --> 00:56:56,440
for what it needs to do. 
It's phenomenal for his for his 

978
00:56:56,440 --> 00:57:02,160
pain because the way he is cut, 
he has no supporting bones and 

979
00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:05,360
so his body prosthetic has to 
evenly distribute pressure all 

980
00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:09,840
around his body so that all of 
his like organs and stuff aren't

981
00:57:09,840 --> 00:57:13,360
pushing down on the bottom. 
So the whole bit in case needs 

982
00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:15,840
to be evenly distributed on 
pressure or like an X. 

983
00:57:15,880 --> 00:57:18,800
Skeleton and I'm only. 
L4 up, yeah. 

984
00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:21,080
So I'm. 
I can't put pressure on the 

985
00:57:21,080 --> 00:57:23,160
bottom of my spine. 
It'll also breakdown. 

986
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:26,560
Yeah, and. 
So the Roho really is the best 

987
00:57:26,560 --> 00:57:29,160
option in terms of longevity for
all of this. 

988
00:57:29,160 --> 00:57:30,520
Feel like I've seen you in 
videos. 

989
00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:34,080
Where you sit up without the 
prosthetic right You can do it 

990
00:57:34,080 --> 00:57:36,000
from time to time right me and 
like. 

991
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:38,520
Kind of be up if he's in a 
really cushioned area, but he 

992
00:57:38,520 --> 00:57:41,640
can't like sit, sit, you know 
what I mean? 

993
00:57:41,880 --> 00:57:43,840
And he's always at a light angle
for that. 

994
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:46,800
But yeah. 
So with the Rojo though, the, 

995
00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:50,000
the part that rips away the 
independence is not only the 

996
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:53,240
size of the new prosthetic to 
accommodate for all of those air

997
00:57:53,240 --> 00:57:55,080
pockets, because it's in the 
front, in the back, on the 

998
00:57:55,080 --> 00:58:00,280
bottom right, but also the 
weight due to the size. 

999
00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:03,720
It's very hard, hard for Lauren 
to put himself in it like he 

1000
00:58:03,720 --> 00:58:07,960
could with the old bucket that 
had foam in it, because the size

1001
00:58:07,960 --> 00:58:09,520
and the weight of it is really 
hard. 

1002
00:58:09,720 --> 00:58:16,280
And then once he is in it, 
there's two different tubes, one

1003
00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:18,480
connected to the sides in the 
back and one connected the 

1004
00:58:18,560 --> 00:58:21,160
front. 
They're these where you have to 

1005
00:58:21,160 --> 00:58:24,840
air them up and so you have to 
use a manual pump. 

1006
00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:26,360
Yeah, they air. 
These. 

1007
00:58:26,360 --> 00:58:28,040
Air pockets. 
They even give an automatic. 

1008
00:58:28,040 --> 00:58:31,160
Foam they give them, yeah. 
And so not only is the size and 

1009
00:58:31,160 --> 00:58:34,560
weight too much for him to get 
in it by himself, but then he 

1010
00:58:34,560 --> 00:58:38,200
can't even air it up himself. 
So now he if he wants to be out 

1011
00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:42,360
of bed or in his prosthetic, he 
has to rely on somebody else. 

1012
00:58:42,560 --> 00:58:44,880
And that took away a lot of the 
independence because with the 

1013
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:48,920
Trial 1, when it was just foam, 
it was light, it was small, he 

1014
00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:51,920
could do it all himself and he 
didn't have to rely on someone 

1015
00:58:51,920 --> 00:58:54,360
for that. 
But we are in the process of 

1016
00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:57,160
getting another. 
It's kind of a mixture of a foam

1017
00:58:57,160 --> 00:59:01,880
and an air pocket, one that's 
smaller and he can get up by 

1018
00:59:01,880 --> 00:59:03,680
himself to kind of get that 
independence back. 

1019
00:59:03,680 --> 00:59:05,960
Did they already? 
I mean, with just such a small 

1020
00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:09,160
sample of people that this has 
happened to, did they have, were

1021
00:59:09,160 --> 00:59:11,920
these like already predesigned 
this kind of thing actually. 

1022
00:59:11,920 --> 00:59:15,960
The, like, inventor of these 
prosthetics is the one who did 

1023
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:17,640
his prosthetics. 
Oh, wow. 

1024
00:59:18,640 --> 00:59:20,560
Yeah. 
And it was sent back. 

1025
00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:23,520
And forth from Great Falls, Mt 
to St. 

1026
00:59:23,520 --> 00:59:28,200
Louis, MO and and also. 
To Shirley Ryan at some .0. 

1027
00:59:29,400 --> 00:59:33,120
Yeah, I don't. 
Remember, but basically are 

1028
00:59:33,120 --> 00:59:37,440
people in Great Falls, Shirley 
Ryan and then John the bucket 

1029
00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:39,680
dude, they were all collectively
involved. 

1030
00:59:39,680 --> 00:59:41,520
So it got sent all sorts of 
places. 

1031
00:59:42,200 --> 00:59:45,040
And then the finalized and and, 
and again, like the finalized 

1032
00:59:45,040 --> 00:59:48,800
prosthetic in terms of longevity
and like safety and comfort for 

1033
00:59:48,800 --> 00:59:51,280
his body. 
It is a really good prosthetic. 

1034
00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:54,080
Like it is really amazing. 
He doesn't get sores. 

1035
00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:57,960
He can be up in it for like 16 
hours sometimes and feel totally

1036
00:59:57,960 --> 01:00:01,840
fine like I've set up for 20. 6 
before yeah like. 

1037
01:00:01,840 --> 01:00:04,240
In terms of 26. 
Yeah. 

1038
01:00:04,560 --> 01:00:08,040
Yeah, in terms of, like, actual 
comfort and goodness for his, 

1039
01:00:08,040 --> 01:00:10,840
like, bones and his skin, it's a
great prosthetic. 

1040
01:00:11,080 --> 01:00:14,040
But in terms of independence, 
ripped it away. 

1041
01:00:14,240 --> 01:00:16,600
And so now we're trying to find 
like an in between where it's 

1042
01:00:16,600 --> 01:00:21,000
like, OK, this still has a few 
key components that like, will 

1043
01:00:21,080 --> 01:00:24,360
keep his body safe and like, 
good and not have to worry about

1044
01:00:24,360 --> 01:00:26,880
sores or his spine or anything 
like that. 

1045
01:00:26,880 --> 01:00:30,880
But can we do it in a way where 
he can do it himself and doesn't

1046
01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:33,880
have to rely on someone else to 
just get out of bed? 

1047
01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:36,880
Yeah, which we already. 
Have a test trial, yes, we're. 

1048
01:00:36,880 --> 01:00:41,280
In the process of it that we. 
Have already made and I can 

1049
01:00:41,280 --> 01:00:44,960
already get in that one myself 
almost. 

1050
01:00:45,040 --> 01:00:46,320
Almost. 
There's only one. 

1051
01:00:46,320 --> 01:00:48,360
Part There's one. 
Is it that black? 

1052
01:00:48,360 --> 01:00:49,480
I feel like I saw you pretty 
good. 

1053
01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:51,040
It was a black one, right? 
Justin about. 

1054
01:00:51,040 --> 01:00:55,120
It Yeah, yeah, yeah. 
We just have a one an exterior 

1055
01:00:55,120 --> 01:00:59,680
adjustment to make for his 
tubing and then the bottom of it

1056
01:00:59,680 --> 01:01:02,600
is lined currently with memory 
foam, but they're going to 

1057
01:01:02,600 --> 01:01:05,640
replace it with an air airlining
similar to row. 

1058
01:01:05,640 --> 01:01:08,240
So impressive to. 
See you do that. 

1059
01:01:09,600 --> 01:01:11,080
To get in it. 
Get in it by. 

1060
01:01:11,160 --> 01:01:12,720
Oh my gosh. 
Yeah, and. 

1061
01:01:12,720 --> 01:01:15,440
That's what we're trying to get 
back because for the last four 

1062
01:01:15,440 --> 01:01:19,160
or five years since we've had 
this one, if he wants to get up,

1063
01:01:19,160 --> 01:01:22,120
he's solely reliant on me to get
him up. 

1064
01:01:22,120 --> 01:01:25,720
And if I'm not feeling good or 
if I'm asleep or you know, like 

1065
01:01:25,960 --> 01:01:29,520
it's, it's a big give or take 
and if if of opposite sleep. 

1066
01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:32,080
Schedules. 
Yeah, like, like I'm going to. 

1067
01:01:32,080 --> 01:01:34,400
Bed when he's waking up for the 
day, you know? 

1068
01:01:35,080 --> 01:01:36,320
Yeah. 
So so. 

1069
01:01:36,320 --> 01:01:39,720
You OK? 
You were living together, but 

1070
01:01:39,720 --> 01:01:41,240
now you're married. 
We are. 

1071
01:01:41,600 --> 01:01:43,440
OK. 
Take me through that whole 

1072
01:01:43,440 --> 01:01:48,080
process because I'm, I mean, 
that's a story, so. 

1073
01:01:48,120 --> 01:01:53,440
She actually she so. 
Before the accent, Lauren had 

1074
01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:56,800
gotten me a promise ring and we 
had discussed like, eventually 

1075
01:01:56,800 --> 01:01:59,200
we want to get married, but 
we're still young, so it's not 

1076
01:01:59,200 --> 01:02:01,440
really like a thing we're 
worried about at the time. 

1077
01:02:01,880 --> 01:02:06,520
And then when his accident 
happened, I was thinking about 

1078
01:02:06,520 --> 01:02:08,160
like the promise ring and all of
that. 

1079
01:02:08,320 --> 01:02:11,600
And so I got him a like his own 
version of a promise ring kind 

1080
01:02:11,600 --> 01:02:14,800
of as like a, a repromise of 
like, hey, this crazy thing 

1081
01:02:14,800 --> 01:02:17,360
happened, but this is me showing
you that I still want to spend 

1082
01:02:17,360 --> 01:02:19,200
my life with you. 
I still eventually want to marry

1083
01:02:19,200 --> 01:02:22,200
you, yadda yadda. 
And so that it was it was a 

1084
01:02:22,200 --> 01:02:24,520
promise ring in return I was 
talking about. 

1085
01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:29,120
How you asked about marriage 
that was within. 

1086
01:02:29,120 --> 01:02:32,600
The conversation, it was me 
saying I still want to get 

1087
01:02:32,600 --> 01:02:35,280
married to you took it as a 
proposal because you weren't 

1088
01:02:35,280 --> 01:02:36,680
actually listening. 
He was just that. 

1089
01:02:36,880 --> 01:02:40,680
He was that excited man he was. 
Being a man, he saw ring, he 

1090
01:02:40,680 --> 01:02:44,200
tuned the rest out and he when 
she proposed me, I gave him a 

1091
01:02:44,200 --> 01:02:47,320
promise ring, meaning I still 
want to marry you one day. 

1092
01:02:47,440 --> 01:02:52,960
It was just a repromise of all 
this crazy stuff happened and I 

1093
01:02:52,960 --> 01:02:55,800
still want to marry you. 
OK. 

1094
01:02:57,120 --> 01:02:59,040
Yeah, we've been. 
Having this debate ever since it

1095
01:02:59,040 --> 01:03:02,600
happened because he remembers it
completely different, I can 

1096
01:03:02,600 --> 01:03:05,600
imagine. 
He was There was a. 

1097
01:03:05,600 --> 01:03:07,840
Time. 
There was one time where she 

1098
01:03:07,840 --> 01:03:11,440
asked about us getting married 
and I told her not at this 

1099
01:03:11,440 --> 01:03:14,800
moment, let's wait till we're 
home and not dealing with all 

1100
01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:17,040
this crazy shit with rehab and 
all that. 

1101
01:03:17,640 --> 01:03:19,760
That's what I was bringing. 
It's just pillow talk. 

1102
01:03:19,760 --> 01:03:22,080
Though there was no ring 
involved with that. 

1103
01:03:22,080 --> 01:03:24,040
That was just, are we still 
going to get married? 

1104
01:03:24,040 --> 01:03:25,760
And you said, I don't want to 
think about it right now. 

1105
01:03:26,120 --> 01:03:28,240
And then we got back to Great 
Falls and that's when I gave you

1106
01:03:28,240 --> 01:03:30,840
the promise ring. 
And I said, so you know, I still

1107
01:03:30,840 --> 01:03:34,760
want to eventually. 
You're you're. 

1108
01:03:34,760 --> 01:03:36,960
Opening a can of worms here with
oh, that's right, that's. 

1109
01:03:37,040 --> 01:03:38,560
Right, that's right. 
Thing has been going on. 

1110
01:03:38,560 --> 01:03:40,880
For years it's pointless, but 
yeah. 

1111
01:03:40,880 --> 01:03:43,840
And then, then. 
But when the actual proposal 

1112
01:03:43,840 --> 01:03:50,400
came and stuff like that, it was
late 2020 or like summer of 2020

1113
01:03:51,840 --> 01:03:54,040
roughly, yeah. 
'Cause we got married. 

1114
01:03:54,040 --> 01:03:58,240
February of 21 and we got 
married like 3 months after you 

1115
01:03:58,240 --> 01:04:00,520
proposed. 
Yeah. 

1116
01:04:00,520 --> 01:04:02,280
So yeah, it was. 
Late 2020. 

1117
01:04:03,560 --> 01:04:05,280
Yep. 
Wow. 

1118
01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:08,680
Yeah, then and there. 
It was it was a very on brand 

1119
01:04:08,680 --> 01:04:11,280
for us proposal. 
Yeah, it. 

1120
01:04:11,280 --> 01:04:18,720
Was nothing special. 
It was she was a A God. 

1121
01:04:19,280 --> 01:04:24,360
So we had a fish tank or we used
to have fish, a fish, a fish. 

1122
01:04:25,120 --> 01:04:30,160
And we have this gigantic tank 
and Sabia was dealing with 

1123
01:04:30,160 --> 01:04:32,880
cleaning it or whatever changing
out. 

1124
01:04:32,880 --> 01:04:36,920
Like all of the water, pretty 
much like doing a full reset 

1125
01:04:36,920 --> 01:04:38,240
and. 
This is what she was doing. 

1126
01:04:38,480 --> 01:04:41,840
No, I'm kidding. 
She was struggling to change the

1127
01:04:41,840 --> 01:04:47,160
water in the tank out and she 
ended up getting covered in this

1128
01:04:47,160 --> 01:04:51,160
dirty fish tank water and just 
she ended up freaking out, 

1129
01:04:51,160 --> 01:04:55,200
losing her mind over it. 
And because she was freaking out

1130
01:04:55,200 --> 01:05:01,280
what not I tried to like cheer 
her up by proposing to her. 

1131
01:05:01,680 --> 01:05:03,120
I just don't. 
That'll do it. 

1132
01:05:03,800 --> 01:05:05,200
I'm just. 
Leaving out here. 

1133
01:05:05,200 --> 01:05:08,360
Is he went with his breath, you 
tell. 

1134
01:05:08,360 --> 01:05:11,560
Those stories 'cause I tell them
wrong, America, you do. 

1135
01:05:11,600 --> 01:05:14,080
You, I'll tell it. 
Then I mean, that's how. 

1136
01:05:14,120 --> 01:05:17,720
It went, but you left out like 
the most important bit where 

1137
01:05:18,520 --> 01:05:20,920
when all of it went wrong, you 
weren't home. 

1138
01:05:21,840 --> 01:05:25,760
You came home to me crying, 
covered in fish water. 

1139
01:05:26,240 --> 01:05:28,800
And then I was telling you the 
story of it when you just 

1140
01:05:28,800 --> 01:05:32,480
because he had bought the ring, 
like that day he went to the 

1141
01:05:32,480 --> 01:05:35,160
mall with his brother under the 
guise of I'm just going to go 

1142
01:05:35,160 --> 01:05:38,440
window shopping with my brother.
And he bought the ring. 

1143
01:05:38,800 --> 01:05:41,080
And then he was gonna like do a 
whole big thing. 

1144
01:05:41,080 --> 01:05:44,040
And then he got home to me, 
like, sitting in the living room

1145
01:05:44,040 --> 01:05:47,520
covered in stinky fish water, 
hysterically crying. 

1146
01:05:47,880 --> 01:05:49,640
And I was telling him, like, 
what happened? 

1147
01:05:49,640 --> 01:05:51,640
And then I turned around and 
he's just, like, sitting there 

1148
01:05:51,640 --> 01:05:54,680
with the ring. 
So he was gonna like, actually 

1149
01:05:54,680 --> 01:05:56,080
like, you know, sorry about the 
fish. 

1150
01:05:56,080 --> 01:05:59,200
Tank, will you marry me? 
All right, Yeah. 

1151
01:06:00,040 --> 01:06:03,040
So that's why I feel like it's 
very on brand for us, because 

1152
01:06:03,040 --> 01:06:06,800
there was a plan in place and 
then something came up and we're

1153
01:06:06,800 --> 01:06:09,640
like, no, where'd you get 
proposing right now? 

1154
01:06:09,640 --> 01:06:12,480
Because I know that'll make you 
feel better and it'll distract 

1155
01:06:12,480 --> 01:06:13,840
your brain. 
And it did. 

1156
01:06:13,840 --> 01:06:16,600
And then I'll then, then, yeah. 
And then we got married just. 

1157
01:06:17,520 --> 01:06:19,680
And you were? 
Crying for joy at that moment 

1158
01:06:19,680 --> 01:06:21,000
Exactly. 
Tears immediately. 

1159
01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:24,200
Changed, yeah. 
And then, yeah, and then we just

1160
01:06:24,800 --> 01:06:27,080
went and got married at the 
courthouse, like couple months 

1161
01:06:27,080 --> 01:06:29,680
later at the courthouse. 
Well, we went and got the. 

1162
01:06:29,680 --> 01:06:32,480
Paperwork at the courthouse and 
then we went and got married at 

1163
01:06:32,480 --> 01:06:35,280
her parents place. 
My mom little small get 

1164
01:06:35,280 --> 01:06:36,240
together. 
Wow. 

1165
01:06:38,200 --> 01:06:42,320
I wore my mom's 'cause my 
parents had like a cozy little 

1166
01:06:42,320 --> 01:06:44,520
courthouse wedding back when 
they got married. 

1167
01:06:45,360 --> 01:06:50,120
My mom had this like patchwork, 
really pretty patchwork, like 

1168
01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:54,800
summer dress kind of. 
And that was her wedding dress. 

1169
01:06:55,040 --> 01:06:59,040
And when we got married, cause 
since it was just like at my 

1170
01:06:59,040 --> 01:07:01,280
parents and my mom was 
officiating it and it's just 

1171
01:07:01,280 --> 01:07:04,400
like a little gathering. 
I was just, I just threw on like

1172
01:07:04,400 --> 01:07:06,600
one of my summer dresses. 
And then when we got to my 

1173
01:07:06,600 --> 01:07:09,520
parents, I didn't like the dress
I chose. 

1174
01:07:09,520 --> 01:07:12,720
And then my mom and I joked 
about me trying on her wedding 

1175
01:07:12,720 --> 01:07:16,360
dress like just to, you know, 
just for giggles, you know, And 

1176
01:07:16,360 --> 01:07:18,520
it ended up fitting perfectly. 
And then I was like, OK, well, 

1177
01:07:18,520 --> 01:07:20,480
I'm getting married in your 
wedding dress then. 

1178
01:07:20,960 --> 01:07:24,720
And so, but yeah, it was a very,
it was a very, the day was 

1179
01:07:24,720 --> 01:07:28,960
exactly as it needed to be. 
We had. 

1180
01:07:29,520 --> 01:07:35,760
The people there that we needed 
and wanted and yeah, it was nice

1181
01:07:35,760 --> 01:07:37,920
and cozy. 
I, I'm, I'm not big with like 

1182
01:07:37,920 --> 01:07:41,520
big things anyway. 
So like, it was perfect for us. 

1183
01:07:42,880 --> 01:07:44,080
You guys are so. 
Impressive. 

1184
01:07:44,200 --> 01:07:47,160
I mean, you obviously love him. 
I do. 

1185
01:07:47,160 --> 01:07:50,480
My best most days, but I. 
Mean, yeah. 

1186
01:07:50,520 --> 01:07:53,400
No, you could have been. 
Somebody that was just like, I'm

1187
01:07:53,400 --> 01:07:54,800
out. 
Oh, yeah, I don't want to deal 

1188
01:07:54,800 --> 01:07:55,880
with this. 
Yeah. 

1189
01:07:57,320 --> 01:08:01,520
You could have been just, you 
know, that's your life now I'm 

1190
01:08:01,600 --> 01:08:03,960
going. 
To go, but that didn't happen. 

1191
01:08:04,200 --> 01:08:06,920
No, I, I. 
Could not really picture moving 

1192
01:08:06,920 --> 01:08:09,920
forward in my life without him 
by my side. 

1193
01:08:10,040 --> 01:08:11,960
Pretty much. 
You know, it wasn't even really 

1194
01:08:11,960 --> 01:08:13,440
a thought. 
I was just like, OK, this is our

1195
01:08:13,440 --> 01:08:16,479
life now, what's the next step? 
You know, there wasn't ever 

1196
01:08:16,479 --> 01:08:19,960
that, oh, do I go, do I stay? 
Do I go, do I stay? 

1197
01:08:19,960 --> 01:08:22,080
It was just kind of like, OK, so
did you. 

1198
01:08:22,279 --> 01:08:23,680
Were you ever worried about 
that? 

1199
01:08:25,640 --> 01:08:28,680
Are you kidding? 
Yeah, I was worried about it 

1200
01:08:28,680 --> 01:08:32,880
initially. 
I mean, because, you know, she's

1201
01:08:32,880 --> 01:08:37,399
staying with a dude that can't 
be the man of the house anymore.

1202
01:08:37,880 --> 01:08:44,359
But she she's never wavered at 
all in her stance whatsoever. 

1203
01:08:44,359 --> 01:08:47,640
So I don't worry about it 
whatsoever anymore. 

1204
01:08:48,520 --> 01:08:52,760
But the first like a year, I did
worry about it just because 

1205
01:08:53,240 --> 01:08:55,000
you're processing. 
So much stuff, yeah, And there 

1206
01:08:55,000 --> 01:08:57,040
were a lot. 
Of I mean just emotionally and. 

1207
01:08:57,319 --> 01:08:58,600
Yeah. 
Yeah. 

1208
01:09:00,040 --> 01:09:03,279
And and to be honest, I don't 
know if I would have stuck 

1209
01:09:03,279 --> 01:09:05,960
around and that's OK. 
If things were swapped. 

1210
01:09:05,960 --> 01:09:09,800
Around cuz it's a lot. 
It is. 

1211
01:09:10,399 --> 01:09:13,279
And that's just not everyone. 
You know, there are people out 

1212
01:09:13,279 --> 01:09:15,279
there who would stay and there 
are people out there who 

1213
01:09:15,279 --> 01:09:17,960
wouldn't stay. 
And, and, and I think what's 

1214
01:09:17,960 --> 01:09:21,680
important is that I stayed, but 
that doesn't mean that if I 

1215
01:09:21,680 --> 01:09:24,359
left, it would have been the 
wrong thing to do. 

1216
01:09:24,720 --> 01:09:26,600
You know what I mean? 
Like, yeah. 

1217
01:09:27,000 --> 01:09:28,680
Just like if I. 
Couldn't handle it. 

1218
01:09:28,680 --> 01:09:31,359
And I left and nobody would hold
that against me. 

1219
01:09:31,359 --> 01:09:32,800
You wouldn't hold that against 
me. 

1220
01:09:32,800 --> 01:09:35,600
You know, like staying or going.
There is no right choice. 

1221
01:09:35,600 --> 01:09:39,240
It's whatever feels right for 
the person making the choice. 

1222
01:09:39,680 --> 01:09:42,399
Yeah. 
And so if it happened to me and 

1223
01:09:42,399 --> 01:09:44,760
you left, I wouldn't have hold 
held that against you. 

1224
01:09:44,760 --> 01:09:47,520
And I don't hold it against you 
knowing that you might not have 

1225
01:09:47,520 --> 01:09:50,560
been able to stay, because 
that's silly, but. 

1226
01:09:50,560 --> 01:09:53,080
She honestly gave up a lot 
staying by my side. 

1227
01:09:53,600 --> 01:09:55,200
Not really. 
She. 

1228
01:09:55,200 --> 01:09:58,160
Gave up schooling, she gave up a
career. 

1229
01:09:58,160 --> 01:10:05,280
No, I can still do. 
Those things I just didn't want 

1230
01:10:05,280 --> 01:10:07,880
to. 
And I get to. 

1231
01:10:07,880 --> 01:10:09,640
Sleep until 1:00 in the 
afternoon. 

1232
01:10:09,760 --> 01:10:10,880
You get to sleep. 
Till 1. 

1233
01:10:10,880 --> 01:10:12,320
Is that what you said? 
I hang out with my. 

1234
01:10:12,320 --> 01:10:15,360
Husband all day. 
Yeah, you know, so. 

1235
01:10:15,360 --> 01:10:16,600
What is that? 
I gave up a. 

1236
01:10:16,600 --> 01:10:19,280
Bunch for this, but I didn't. 
I mean what is nice? 

1237
01:10:19,280 --> 01:10:22,840
Is that she gets paid to be my 
24 hour caregiver so essentially

1238
01:10:22,840 --> 01:10:26,200
where she gets paid and just to 
love him to. 

1239
01:10:26,200 --> 01:10:27,560
Love her husband. 
And you get to. 

1240
01:10:27,560 --> 01:10:30,360
Be on amazing podcasts. 
Yeah, AM. 

1241
01:10:30,360 --> 01:10:31,520
I right? 
Yeah, we get to. 

1242
01:10:31,640 --> 01:10:32,880
We get to. 
Drive all the way. 

1243
01:10:32,920 --> 01:10:34,680
Yeah, exactly. 
Over here. 

1244
01:10:34,680 --> 01:10:37,600
And. 
This is an amazing opportunity, 

1245
01:10:37,600 --> 01:10:38,480
by the way. 
Thank you. 

1246
01:10:38,640 --> 01:10:40,600
Yeah, absolutely. 
It is with tears in his. 

1247
01:10:40,640 --> 01:10:42,520
I I'm. 
I don't know why I'm. 

1248
01:10:42,520 --> 01:10:46,480
Tearing up so I don't while 
crying over my story, Yeah, I 

1249
01:10:46,560 --> 01:10:49,840
mean. 
You you have such a a sweet 

1250
01:10:49,840 --> 01:10:53,160
spirit about you, like you just 
are, like you'd really you just 

1251
01:10:53,160 --> 01:10:55,760
aren't you're you're. 
AI don't know. 

1252
01:10:56,560 --> 01:11:01,640
I mean, I think your personality
and your determination, and I 

1253
01:11:01,640 --> 01:11:06,280
think that that also that, that 
that fight within you to get out

1254
01:11:06,280 --> 01:11:08,920
of Hospice, I mean, that's all 
part of your survival. 

1255
01:11:09,480 --> 01:11:13,320
And I'm so impressed with just 
how you've handled this. 

1256
01:11:13,320 --> 01:11:17,360
I can't. 
I mean, I can't imagine. 

1257
01:11:18,680 --> 01:11:20,920
Yeah. 
We we tend to forget how like 

1258
01:11:20,920 --> 01:11:23,400
actually crazy it is. 
We're so desensitized to 

1259
01:11:23,400 --> 01:11:25,120
everything. 
A lot of times we'll like meet 

1260
01:11:25,120 --> 01:11:28,080
new people and they're like, Oh 
my gosh, like this is crazy. 

1261
01:11:28,080 --> 01:11:30,560
And we're like, huh, Yeah, it 
kind of is, huh? 

1262
01:11:30,560 --> 01:11:32,320
It actually took me because. 
It's just like. 

1263
01:11:32,320 --> 01:11:36,040
Everyday for us now, we're so 
used to it, it actually took. 

1264
01:11:36,040 --> 01:11:39,520
Me like a whole year, like 3 
years. 

1265
01:11:40,360 --> 01:11:42,480
It took him a. 
While of her and her. 

1266
01:11:42,480 --> 01:11:51,400
Father both explaining to me 
just how crazy and insane it is 

1267
01:11:51,400 --> 01:11:53,880
that the stars align like they 
did for me. 

1268
01:11:53,880 --> 01:11:55,720
Totally surprised. 
And you could. 

1269
01:11:55,720 --> 01:12:00,000
Be sitting here complaining like
you're not yeah, at all like 

1270
01:12:00,000 --> 01:12:02,920
you're not. 
You're not whining and crying 

1271
01:12:02,920 --> 01:12:05,120
about the you know what you're 
dealing. 

1272
01:12:05,120 --> 01:12:08,000
I mean, you're incredibly 
strong. 

1273
01:12:08,080 --> 01:12:09,960
Who pushes? 
Me to get out of the house you 

1274
01:12:09,960 --> 01:12:13,120
know what I mean I go oh I just 
want to stay in bed all day and 

1275
01:12:13,120 --> 01:12:16,080
I do anything and he goes I want
to go on a walk let's go on a 

1276
01:12:16,080 --> 01:12:18,520
walk let's go do this like a dog
if. 

1277
01:12:18,520 --> 01:12:23,200
I could just get one lap around 
town in the vehicle with my head

1278
01:12:23,200 --> 01:12:25,240
out the window, I'd be happy. 
But now you guys have. 

1279
01:12:25,440 --> 01:12:27,640
It would be so. 
Easy for him to fall into that 

1280
01:12:27,640 --> 01:12:32,000
and just rot away, you know, But
he he doesn't and he doesn't let

1281
01:12:32,000 --> 01:12:35,600
the people around him rot away 
either, you know, And you have. 

1282
01:12:36,240 --> 01:12:39,680
Now you, your, your main gig is 
the, the content, right? 

1283
01:12:39,680 --> 01:12:40,960
The YouTube channel and stuff 
like that, right? 

1284
01:12:41,760 --> 01:12:46,360
Yeah, YouTube channel and I'm 
also, I'm an I'm a pretty avid 

1285
01:12:46,360 --> 01:12:48,520
gamer. 
Like I'll play Call of Duty, 

1286
01:12:49,640 --> 01:12:53,760
arc, Raiders or pretty much 
everything and anything actually

1287
01:12:53,760 --> 01:12:56,520
large game library. 
Yeah, I got like. 50 games down 

1288
01:12:57,440 --> 01:13:01,800
at the moment but that's 
something I'm looking into start

1289
01:13:01,800 --> 01:13:06,800
doing is streaming myself gaming
and whatnot just to feel like 

1290
01:13:06,800 --> 01:13:10,800
I'm doing something productive 
rather than just gaming all day 

1291
01:13:10,800 --> 01:13:15,480
yeah yeah but but yeah the 
social media with the YouTube 

1292
01:13:15,480 --> 01:13:18,160
channels that's your. 
Main little gig. 

1293
01:13:19,560 --> 01:13:21,520
Yeah, completely. 
Accidental. 

1294
01:13:21,840 --> 01:13:25,200
Yeah, it was. 
Completely accidental, so how it

1295
01:13:25,200 --> 01:13:26,880
no pun, no pun intended? 
Right. 

1296
01:13:26,880 --> 01:13:29,280
Yeah, How the? 
Social media channel came about 

1297
01:13:29,800 --> 01:13:36,320
was we were still in rehab in 
Chicago and she took a video of 

1298
01:13:36,320 --> 01:13:39,040
me sitting up in my body 
prosthetic for the very first 

1299
01:13:39,040 --> 01:13:42,560
time. 
Well, that night she posted on 

1300
01:13:42,560 --> 01:13:44,960
TikTok and this was. 
Her cousin. 

1301
01:13:45,280 --> 01:13:47,640
And her best friend to see 
because she only had two 

1302
01:13:47,640 --> 01:13:49,680
followers on TikTok and it was 
back when. 

1303
01:13:49,680 --> 01:13:53,160
TikTok was still like, like this
was 2019. 

1304
01:13:53,160 --> 01:13:55,560
Like yeah, it was like the. 
Music thing or whatever, dancing

1305
01:13:55,560 --> 01:13:57,000
and stuff I got you seeing there
wasn't. 

1306
01:13:57,000 --> 01:14:00,200
Much going on on TikTok, so 
like, you know, like my brain 

1307
01:14:00,200 --> 01:14:04,040
just like boom, no hashtags. 
I just like put it up and went 

1308
01:14:04,040 --> 01:14:07,480
to sleep, put it up, went to. 
Sleep woke up the next morning 

1309
01:14:07,640 --> 01:14:10,440
and mind you we were pretty 
private people before the 

1310
01:14:10,440 --> 01:14:13,520
accident. 
I mean you you'll be hard 

1311
01:14:13,520 --> 01:14:17,480
pressed to find photos of me 
fully full bodied because I just

1312
01:14:17,480 --> 01:14:23,120
didn't take many photos before 
the accident, but woke up that 

1313
01:14:23,120 --> 01:14:25,360
morning to 13 million views on 
the. 

1314
01:14:26,760 --> 01:14:31,200
Like overnight and. 
Everyone asking for the story 

1315
01:14:31,200 --> 01:14:34,680
and at that time TikTok only did
32nd to a minute video. 

1316
01:14:34,680 --> 01:14:38,400
I was like, we're not. 
Gonna make like 30 videos on 

1317
01:14:38,400 --> 01:14:43,040
TikTok explaining this so we 
created the YouTube. 

1318
01:14:43,040 --> 01:14:45,680
Channel, yeah, and. 
And we didn't even like create a

1319
01:14:45,680 --> 01:14:48,520
YouTube channel. 
I had had the same YouTube 

1320
01:14:48,520 --> 01:14:51,920
account since I was like 12 
because I grew up like watching 

1321
01:14:51,920 --> 01:14:55,360
PewDiePie and all of them, you 
know, And so I just changed the 

1322
01:14:55,360 --> 01:15:00,880
name on that and we uploaded a 
video to my like old channel and

1323
01:15:00,880 --> 01:15:03,560
then we went on TikTok and we're
like, hey, like, if you want to 

1324
01:15:03,560 --> 01:15:07,160
know what happened here it is. 
And and it just explained pretty

1325
01:15:07,160 --> 01:15:10,120
much what we just told you like 
the accident and where we were 

1326
01:15:10,120 --> 01:15:11,360
now because we were, it's that 
black and. 

1327
01:15:11,360 --> 01:15:12,000
White that. 
Yeah. 

1328
01:15:12,000 --> 01:15:13,760
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. 
And then? 

1329
01:15:13,760 --> 01:15:17,320
People just kept wanting more. 
And then we're like, OK, this is

1330
01:15:17,320 --> 01:15:20,200
kind of fun, you know? 
And so then we were just filming

1331
01:15:20,200 --> 01:15:24,760
all of his progress and, and 
then it just took off and then 

1332
01:15:24,760 --> 01:15:29,320
it never stopped. 
And yeah, now we get get to do 

1333
01:15:29,320 --> 01:15:31,480
fun things like this. 
So. 

1334
01:15:31,480 --> 01:15:34,760
And it's opened up so many 
opportunities too, because of 

1335
01:15:34,760 --> 01:15:38,280
the reach of the channel. 
Like there are people in other 

1336
01:15:38,280 --> 01:15:41,720
states or like like medical 
professionals and like other 

1337
01:15:41,720 --> 01:15:44,520
States and stuff that otherwise 
because where we're at Great 

1338
01:15:44,520 --> 01:15:47,240
Falls, Mt, like there's not much
reach there. 

1339
01:15:47,240 --> 01:15:51,080
And, and, and because of social 
media and because of the reach 

1340
01:15:51,080 --> 01:15:53,720
it has, I feel like we've gotten
a lot more opportunities in 

1341
01:15:53,720 --> 01:15:56,760
terms of like his medical 
advancement then we may have 

1342
01:15:56,760 --> 01:15:58,240
gotten. 
Oh, sure, yeah. 

1343
01:15:58,240 --> 01:16:00,480
Like people reaching out to help
and exactly and if. 

1344
01:16:00,480 --> 01:16:03,520
We didn't have that reach with 
social media like we probably, 

1345
01:16:03,520 --> 01:16:06,040
you know, wouldn't even know 
about all these options out 

1346
01:16:06,040 --> 01:16:07,320
there. 
And if we did, there would have 

1347
01:16:07,320 --> 01:16:11,240
been not really any way for us 
to you know, but so that's been 

1348
01:16:11,240 --> 01:16:14,000
an awesome like benefit and 
sharing my. 

1349
01:16:14,000 --> 01:16:16,080
Stories actually saved a couple 
of people, too. 

1350
01:16:16,080 --> 01:16:21,440
There's been three or four 
people that I know of that have 

1351
01:16:21,440 --> 01:16:24,280
contacted me directly that have 
gone and gotten a Hemi 

1352
01:16:24,280 --> 01:16:26,960
corporectity surgery. 
Really, that has saved it where 

1353
01:16:27,120 --> 01:16:29,800
before they. 
Were like pretty much gonna die 

1354
01:16:29,800 --> 01:16:31,800
and then they said what about 
this surgery? 

1355
01:16:31,920 --> 01:16:37,720
And yeah and, and also from what
we've gathered is, is all of the

1356
01:16:37,720 --> 01:16:41,520
major hospitals also, they all 
now know what a hemicorporectomy

1357
01:16:41,520 --> 01:16:45,800
is like it's, it's not an 
obscure term anymore. 

1358
01:16:45,840 --> 01:16:49,720
Yeah amongst like the hospitals.
And so that's cool. 

1359
01:16:49,800 --> 01:16:52,360
And, and yeah. 
And just just building that 

1360
01:16:52,360 --> 01:16:57,840
community pretty much like, like
we, we like just knowing that 

1361
01:16:57,840 --> 01:17:01,480
we're showing other people that 
like whether they're struggling 

1362
01:17:01,480 --> 01:17:04,320
with their own disability or 
their caregivers or they just 

1363
01:17:04,320 --> 01:17:07,400
have something going on or 
nothing like it. 

1364
01:17:07,400 --> 01:17:12,000
The community we've built on 
social media is, is very like 

1365
01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:16,880
supportive, yeah, like, and 
supportive of each other. 

1366
01:17:16,880 --> 01:17:20,120
Like our, our viewers are all 
supportive of each other too. 

1367
01:17:20,120 --> 01:17:22,320
Like we notice that a lot in our
comments sections. 

1368
01:17:22,320 --> 01:17:25,960
Like people, they're not afraid 
to kind of share their own stuff

1369
01:17:25,960 --> 01:17:28,280
going on. 
And then we'll notice the, like,

1370
01:17:29,320 --> 01:17:31,640
community within, like 
supporting each other. 

1371
01:17:31,640 --> 01:17:36,200
And that's been really cool to 
witness and like, kind of be at 

1372
01:17:36,200 --> 01:17:39,720
the forefront of like, like, 
yeah, we're like the main focus 

1373
01:17:39,720 --> 01:17:43,360
in the sense of like, we're the 
ones on the screen, but like 

1374
01:17:43,360 --> 01:17:47,320
behind the scenes within, like 
the actual bit of our followers.

1375
01:17:47,320 --> 01:17:50,800
Like it's people helping people 
and like being there for others 

1376
01:17:50,800 --> 01:17:54,320
who are in similar situations. 
And so that's been really cool 

1377
01:17:54,320 --> 01:17:57,760
to like experience and yeah, 
have you met other? 

1378
01:17:57,760 --> 01:17:59,240
People that have had your 
surgery. 

1379
01:18:00,360 --> 01:18:04,000
Not in person, but I have met 
other people that have had my 

1380
01:18:04,000 --> 01:18:04,560
surgery. 
Yeah. 

1381
01:18:04,680 --> 01:18:05,440
What was that? 
Like. 

1382
01:18:07,800 --> 01:18:15,800
Honestly wasn't crazy or really 
anything you know wild but I 

1383
01:18:15,800 --> 01:18:21,680
have had two pass away on me. 
Rodger Queen and Rand Paul both 

1384
01:18:21,680 --> 01:18:30,400
passed away and they rest in 
peace, but they Rand was the. 

1385
01:18:30,400 --> 01:18:34,600
First one, Randy Hole was the 
first Hemi corporectomy survivor

1386
01:18:34,960 --> 01:18:38,280
we were ever in contact with 
after the accident because he 

1387
01:18:38,280 --> 01:18:42,200
had been surviving like he, I 
think he had his surgery, he 

1388
01:18:42,200 --> 01:18:44,320
said like 12 years ago or 
something. 

1389
01:18:45,720 --> 01:18:48,600
And we learned a lot through 
him. 

1390
01:18:48,600 --> 01:18:52,800
And then Rodger Queen was one 
who he ended up at. 

1391
01:18:52,800 --> 01:18:57,480
I believe it was a bone bone 
infection and he had been 

1392
01:18:57,480 --> 01:18:59,960
fighting to get a 
hemicorporectomy because it was 

1393
01:18:59,960 --> 01:19:04,080
kind of his only option and the 
surgery was successful, but 

1394
01:19:04,080 --> 01:19:06,600
there were other complications 
that came out to play shortly 

1395
01:19:06,600 --> 01:19:08,120
after. 
He had a hard. 

1396
01:19:08,160 --> 01:19:09,760
Yeah, pretty. 
Sure, something. 

1397
01:19:09,760 --> 01:19:12,960
Like that, but. 
Yeah, those are, those are two 

1398
01:19:13,720 --> 01:19:17,880
known hemicorporectomy survivors
that like we've honestly I was. 

1399
01:19:17,880 --> 01:19:21,640
Kind of a little jealous of them
just because they didn't have 

1400
01:19:21,640 --> 01:19:25,920
the chronic pain that I suffered
from because they their nerves 

1401
01:19:25,920 --> 01:19:29,640
were cauterized or whatever what
have you after the surgery and 

1402
01:19:30,280 --> 01:19:34,240
and but due to the. 
Traumatic bit of your surgery, 

1403
01:19:34,640 --> 01:19:36,600
yeah, but. 
Due to how my surgery went, 

1404
01:19:36,600 --> 01:19:39,560
whatnot, I still suffer from 
these damaged nerves. 

1405
01:19:39,560 --> 01:19:42,400
That's why I take pain meds and 
pretty much he's got. 

1406
01:19:42,400 --> 01:19:46,640
All of these nerve endings, I 
just shoot with nowhere to go. 

1407
01:19:47,000 --> 01:19:50,080
And so it's just constant 
cramping in that area. 

1408
01:19:50,520 --> 01:19:54,000
We're we're working, we're 
trying to find someone who a 

1409
01:19:54,000 --> 01:19:56,960
surgeon or a. 
Plastic, plastic surgeon, he'll 

1410
01:19:57,360 --> 01:20:01,680
go in and either block those 
nerves or cauterize them. 

1411
01:20:01,840 --> 01:20:04,160
Yeah, you're going to have to 
block them first to. 

1412
01:20:05,320 --> 01:20:08,200
Because that will determine if 
cauterizing them will actually 

1413
01:20:08,200 --> 01:20:10,240
if you're listening. 
Right. 

1414
01:20:10,360 --> 01:20:12,040
Reach out. 
So far, yeah. 

1415
01:20:12,040 --> 01:20:16,080
Willing to they when it comes to
any type of surgery with him, no

1416
01:20:16,080 --> 01:20:19,560
one wants to touch him because 
again, a lot of times the the 

1417
01:20:19,560 --> 01:20:22,360
risk outweighs the reward. 
You know, if we open him up, 

1418
01:20:22,360 --> 01:20:24,040
what if we don't get him closed 
again? 

1419
01:20:24,040 --> 01:20:26,800
Because all like even already 
like at the bottom where he saw,

1420
01:20:26,840 --> 01:20:28,480
but you can tell it's stretched 
tight. 

1421
01:20:28,480 --> 01:20:33,240
Like they don't really have the 
room to mess up, you know, And 

1422
01:20:33,240 --> 01:20:37,920
so a lot of surgeons. 
We're getting Sir Yeah moved 

1423
01:20:37,920 --> 01:20:40,880
around and so no one's. 
Really willing to do it like the

1424
01:20:40,880 --> 01:20:42,960
sack. 
That where my stool builds up 

1425
01:20:42,960 --> 01:20:47,320
like don't mean to be TMI, but 
like it builds up up here behind

1426
01:20:47,320 --> 01:20:48,560
my lungs. 
Wow. 

1427
01:20:48,800 --> 01:20:49,640
And. 
Then. 

1428
01:20:49,880 --> 01:20:53,680
When I go to poop, it then 
travels down and goes across the

1429
01:20:53,680 --> 01:20:58,320
bottom and then it comes out. 
And I can feel it when I'm when 

1430
01:20:58,320 --> 01:21:03,320
the stool isn't like when the 
stool is too hard or like I'm 

1431
01:21:03,320 --> 01:21:04,840
constipated or whatever. 
Yeah. 

1432
01:21:05,200 --> 01:21:08,480
And I can feel when it goes 
across the bottom of my body 

1433
01:21:08,480 --> 01:21:11,640
because those damaged nerves are
affected by it. 

1434
01:21:11,760 --> 01:21:12,160
Yeah. 
And. 

1435
01:21:12,160 --> 01:21:15,600
And. 
And be also because of how tight

1436
01:21:15,600 --> 01:21:20,920
everything shoved in there, like
he can't, if he gets infect, any

1437
01:21:20,920 --> 01:21:24,080
type of swelling, if he gets a 
kidney infection and his kidney 

1438
01:21:24,080 --> 01:21:27,760
swells, if he eats too much food
and he gets bloated, any type of

1439
01:21:27,760 --> 01:21:31,560
swelling because everything's 
already so stuffed in there, any

1440
01:21:31,560 --> 01:21:33,800
type of swelling pushes on those
nerve ends. 

1441
01:21:33,920 --> 01:21:36,400
And so if he eats too much, his 
pain is going to hurt really 

1442
01:21:36,400 --> 01:21:38,160
bad. 
If he gets a kidney infection, 

1443
01:21:38,160 --> 01:21:39,640
his pain is going to hurt really
bad. 

1444
01:21:39,840 --> 01:21:42,560
If he gets constipated, his pain
is going to hurt really bad 

1445
01:21:42,560 --> 01:21:45,560
because it just pushes on those 
nerve endings because there's no

1446
01:21:45,560 --> 01:21:49,160
room for anything. 
But if we're able to get a 

1447
01:21:49,160 --> 01:21:52,840
plastic, a surgeon or plastic 
surgeon to go in and block or 

1448
01:21:52,840 --> 01:21:56,600
cauterize those damaged nerves, 
then I shouldn't have any pain 

1449
01:21:56,600 --> 01:22:00,560
whatsoever because I was able to
get rid of the phantom pain 

1450
01:22:00,560 --> 01:22:03,000
within the first six months 
after the accident. 

1451
01:22:03,840 --> 01:22:08,720
Like due to when I was in rehab,
they did mirror therapy. 

1452
01:22:09,080 --> 01:22:14,640
But and with the mirror therapy,
what it is, is you're trying to,

1453
01:22:15,920 --> 01:22:18,800
you're looking at 1/2 of your 
body and then the other half and

1454
01:22:18,800 --> 01:22:22,280
you're trying to associate that 
you're missing this half and da,

1455
01:22:22,280 --> 01:22:25,080
da, da or whatever. 
I don't know how to explain it 

1456
01:22:25,080 --> 01:22:27,040
exactly. 
I don't even remember. 

1457
01:22:27,040 --> 01:22:30,200
But what they ended up? 
Doing was they took a mannequin 

1458
01:22:30,200 --> 01:22:35,000
leg and put some jeans over it 
so I couldn't tell it was as 

1459
01:22:35,000 --> 01:22:40,040
fake as it was I guess. 
And then they put the jeans with

1460
01:22:40,040 --> 01:22:43,480
the mannequin leg up against the
bottom of my body like it I was 

1461
01:22:43,480 --> 01:22:46,520
wearing pants. 
And then they put a mirror up at

1462
01:22:46,520 --> 01:22:51,600
the end of the bed and they had 
me look at the the leg leading 

1463
01:22:51,600 --> 01:22:55,640
up to my body and then look at 
the right side of my actual 

1464
01:22:55,920 --> 01:22:58,480
body. 
And then they took it away and 

1465
01:22:58,960 --> 01:23:01,800
then put it back and then took 
it away and put it back. 

1466
01:23:01,800 --> 01:23:05,280
That way I can dissociate that 
that was actually gone. 

1467
01:23:05,280 --> 01:23:07,960
It was wasn't there. 
It's a really. 

1468
01:23:07,960 --> 01:23:13,560
Interesting concept. 
Your brain, then those nerves, 

1469
01:23:14,360 --> 01:23:16,200
your brain then associates that 
that's gone. 

1470
01:23:16,200 --> 01:23:17,840
So those nerves will quit 
firing. 

1471
01:23:18,560 --> 01:23:21,720
It's like how it was explained 
to me and how it works, I guess.

1472
01:23:22,120 --> 01:23:27,400
And then there's a video that we
have on YouTube of these two 

1473
01:23:27,400 --> 01:23:30,200
ladies stretching me on this 
foam roller. 

1474
01:23:30,560 --> 01:23:34,200
What they're doing is they're 
stretching my spine and whatnot 

1475
01:23:34,200 --> 01:23:39,360
because what they had told me or
what they had learned or 

1476
01:23:39,360 --> 01:23:42,400
whatever is that stretch. 
When you stretch the spine and 

1477
01:23:42,560 --> 01:23:47,160
whatnot, it moves the nerves 
into new pathways along the 

1478
01:23:47,160 --> 01:23:49,360
spine like redoing because where
they're. 

1479
01:23:49,440 --> 01:23:54,600
Pushing or Yeah, because my. 
Spine was pinching the nerves 

1480
01:23:55,240 --> 01:23:58,800
and so it was causing the 
phantom pain or whatever and so 

1481
01:23:58,800 --> 01:24:03,600
by stretching and doing the the 
roller. 

1482
01:24:03,600 --> 01:24:06,560
The roller. 
Down my body, it was moving 

1483
01:24:06,560 --> 01:24:09,440
those nerves into different 
pathways to get them to quit 

1484
01:24:09,440 --> 01:24:12,440
firing off and thinking. 
That they're still attached to 

1485
01:24:12,600 --> 01:24:15,320
the legs, which was causing the 
phantom stuff. 

1486
01:24:15,640 --> 01:24:17,520
And yeah. 
And to quit being pinched by my 

1487
01:24:17,600 --> 01:24:22,000
yeah yeah, no rehab. 
Was all sorts of tools for the 

1488
01:24:22,000 --> 01:24:26,280
toolbox, like breathing. 
Techniques like making sure deep

1489
01:24:26,280 --> 01:24:30,560
inhale, exhale, stuff like that.
Making sure I'm calm and then 

1490
01:24:30,760 --> 01:24:32,960
also like working out stuff like
that. 

1491
01:24:33,600 --> 01:24:36,360
Yeah, I've seen you. 
Videos you'd like working out 

1492
01:24:36,360 --> 01:24:37,720
and stuff. 
That's wild. 

1493
01:24:37,760 --> 01:24:41,000
Yeah, the. 
So we learned a bunch of 

1494
01:24:41,000 --> 01:24:43,160
exercises for him to do like 
from home. 

1495
01:24:44,000 --> 01:24:47,440
And then this last year we 
started doing like personal 

1496
01:24:47,440 --> 01:24:50,720
training, kind of getting out of
the house type stuff. 

1497
01:24:52,000 --> 01:24:54,800
Well, I started it and then 
Lauren started coming and then 

1498
01:24:54,800 --> 01:24:57,360
he started it and I ruined it 
for her. 

1499
01:24:58,280 --> 01:25:00,840
Well, it it. 
Started out as, oh, this is my 

1500
01:25:00,840 --> 01:25:03,840
time away to work on myself. 
And then it turned into, OK, now

1501
01:25:03,840 --> 01:25:06,640
I have to get Lauren up and 
bring him with me and, and I 

1502
01:25:06,640 --> 01:25:09,080
can't really focus on my 
personal training session 

1503
01:25:09,080 --> 01:25:12,280
because I see his wheelchair 
tipping back every time he moves

1504
01:25:12,280 --> 01:25:16,080
in that machine, you know? 
And so, yeah, so I'm taking a 

1505
01:25:16,080 --> 01:25:18,560
little break actually from 
personal training at the moment 

1506
01:25:18,560 --> 01:25:22,040
because it, it turned more, it 
was, it was, it became another 

1507
01:25:22,040 --> 01:25:24,360
caregiver role thing. 
But but. 

1508
01:25:24,520 --> 01:25:26,400
We are getting our garage 
finished. 

1509
01:25:26,680 --> 01:25:29,840
My brother's finishing our 
garage right now and we're going

1510
01:25:29,840 --> 01:25:32,920
to get have you seen the tonal 
workout system? 

1511
01:25:33,480 --> 01:25:36,680
It's this wall mounted workout 
system. 

1512
01:25:36,720 --> 01:25:40,039
It's it's like an. 
All in Yeah, it's. 

1513
01:25:40,040 --> 01:25:43,680
Like an all in one type system 
that I can roll my wheelchair up

1514
01:25:43,680 --> 01:25:47,800
to and be able to access 
everything and do everything 

1515
01:25:47,800 --> 01:25:52,000
independently myself. 
So we're going to be getting 

1516
01:25:52,000 --> 01:25:55,200
that machine installed in our 
garage as a work and have a 

1517
01:25:55,200 --> 01:25:57,160
workout area. 
I don't have a physical 

1518
01:25:57,160 --> 01:26:00,520
therapist come over and set me 
up with a workout routine that I

1519
01:26:00,520 --> 01:26:02,760
can safely do from home. 
Yeah, and. 

1520
01:26:02,760 --> 01:26:04,960
Then I'll be able to go back to 
my personal training. 

1521
01:26:04,960 --> 01:26:05,360
Yeah. 
All right. 

1522
01:26:05,360 --> 01:26:06,520
There you go. 
He can work. 

1523
01:26:06,520 --> 01:26:08,560
Out at home and I can get my 
time away. 

1524
01:26:08,560 --> 01:26:11,640
Wow. 
But yeah, no. 

1525
01:26:11,640 --> 01:26:14,280
And all of that, like it helps 
with this pain. 

1526
01:26:14,680 --> 01:26:21,440
And, and they, his personal 
trainers also taught him a few 

1527
01:26:21,440 --> 01:26:25,360
other stretches, like when he's 
in his prosthetic that like they

1528
01:26:25,360 --> 01:26:29,280
were just doing for like, these 
are things you can do at home, 

1529
01:26:29,280 --> 01:26:30,960
like, in terms of like your 
fitness. 

1530
01:26:30,960 --> 01:26:33,720
And then we found out that these
certain stretches and these 

1531
01:26:33,720 --> 01:26:37,480
certain exercises also really 
help with his chronic pain. 

1532
01:26:37,800 --> 01:26:40,480
And so that was like a cool, 
like coincidence 'cause they're 

1533
01:26:40,480 --> 01:26:42,760
like, yeah, no, these are things
you can do with your body, you 

1534
01:26:42,760 --> 01:26:44,120
know? 
And then he was like, oh, these 

1535
01:26:44,120 --> 01:26:46,560
things I do with my body make me
feel better. 

1536
01:26:47,000 --> 01:26:49,000
And so yeah. 
And then? 

1537
01:26:49,320 --> 01:26:51,600
Also about to start eating more 
healthier. 

1538
01:26:51,680 --> 01:26:54,160
Yeah. 
Plus foods that could affect we 

1539
01:26:54,160 --> 01:26:56,280
don't eat. 
Very good because so you. 

1540
01:26:56,280 --> 01:26:58,280
Can pretty much eat whatever you
want though. 

1541
01:26:58,680 --> 01:27:00,040
Yeah, yeah. 
Yeah, no. 

1542
01:27:00,040 --> 01:27:02,600
Dietary restrictions? 
None whatsoever. 

1543
01:27:03,680 --> 01:27:09,160
But carbonate carbonation messes
with my nerves like no other. 

1544
01:27:09,240 --> 01:27:10,320
I used to. 
Oh wow. 

1545
01:27:10,400 --> 01:27:13,960
I used to drink monsters like if
they were water, but ever since 

1546
01:27:13,960 --> 01:27:17,680
the accident I can't drink. 
There's no restrictions. 

1547
01:27:17,680 --> 01:27:20,360
In terms of health, but 
obviously there's things that 

1548
01:27:20,360 --> 01:27:23,840
like he's like, I know this is 
going to hurt me when I eat it. 

1549
01:27:23,840 --> 01:27:26,400
Like his restrictions are more 
pain based and they're more like

1550
01:27:26,400 --> 01:27:29,320
we've put the restrictions on 
rather than a doctor being like,

1551
01:27:29,320 --> 01:27:33,000
you can't have this thing. 
He can eat whatever there's we 

1552
01:27:33,000 --> 01:27:34,640
just know certain things are 
going to hurt him. 

1553
01:27:35,200 --> 01:27:37,320
As with anyone. 
I know if I eat some cheese, I'm

1554
01:27:37,320 --> 01:27:40,760
going to be crying later going 
am I still going to eat the 

1555
01:27:40,760 --> 01:27:41,760
cheese? 
Absolutely. 

1556
01:27:41,960 --> 01:27:46,480
You know, but. 
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 

1557
01:27:46,480 --> 01:27:50,720
Surprisingly, no dietary 
restrictions whatsoever and I've

1558
01:27:50,720 --> 01:27:55,480
maintained my same weight for 
like 4 years. 

1559
01:27:56,360 --> 01:27:58,400
Well, since I recovered from the
accident. 

1560
01:27:58,400 --> 01:28:02,000
Well, yeah, but the. 
First year, like the first year 

1561
01:28:02,000 --> 01:28:05,880
and a half, you didn't fully get
to a healthy I'm not dying 

1562
01:28:05,880 --> 01:28:07,760
anymore. 
Wait until about the first year 

1563
01:28:07,760 --> 01:28:09,520
and a half. 
Like it was slow going. 

1564
01:28:09,520 --> 01:28:11,760
You putting like meat back on 
your bones. 

1565
01:28:12,040 --> 01:28:15,640
Like if you look back at like 
that midway of the first and a 

1566
01:28:15,640 --> 01:28:18,960
half year, like you still look a
little skeletal. 

1567
01:28:19,080 --> 01:28:26,000
You know, you could actually. 
I have marijuana license like 

1568
01:28:26,000 --> 01:28:28,320
the green. 
The the medical card, the 

1569
01:28:28,560 --> 01:28:31,160
medical marijuana. 
Cards and you can look at the 

1570
01:28:31,160 --> 01:28:34,400
one that I was issued right 
after rehab and then the one a 

1571
01:28:34,400 --> 01:28:37,640
year later and you can just. 
See the health Yeah, there's a. 

1572
01:28:37,760 --> 01:28:40,480
Big difference in my cheeks. 
Wow. 

1573
01:28:40,800 --> 01:28:43,240
Yeah, you go. 
Oh yeah, he doesn't like. 

1574
01:28:43,240 --> 01:28:45,760
And that's The thing is too, is 
in the moment, like when we were

1575
01:28:46,720 --> 01:28:50,840
like, we were just so happy for 
him to be alive, that like, we 

1576
01:28:50,840 --> 01:28:53,880
didn't really process like how 
deathly he looks. 

1577
01:28:54,240 --> 01:28:56,840
But like now that like, he's at 
a healthy weight again, like 

1578
01:28:56,840 --> 01:29:00,200
I'll sometimes go back to like 
those older videos and like, he 

1579
01:29:00,200 --> 01:29:03,160
looks like a skeleton. 
And I'm like, oh, yeah, I know. 

1580
01:29:03,160 --> 01:29:07,280
He was like dying. 
Like, yeah, wow. 

1581
01:29:08,480 --> 01:29:12,360
So I have a question for you and
I ask everybody this, but and I 

1582
01:29:12,360 --> 01:29:15,040
I have no idea what you're going
to say. 

1583
01:29:15,040 --> 01:29:17,920
Sometimes I am absolutely 
positive and so other times I'm 

1584
01:29:17,920 --> 01:29:22,800
like your case, no clue. 
If you could go back to that day

1585
01:29:25,240 --> 01:29:30,800
and you could stop all of it 
from ever happening, would you 

1586
01:29:30,800 --> 01:29:33,160
do that? 
Oh yeah, absolutely. 

1587
01:29:33,160 --> 01:29:36,320
RB. 
But you know, I don't do the 

1588
01:29:36,320 --> 01:29:41,880
woulda coulda should as well. 
Ifs but but yeah, no, if I if I 

1589
01:29:41,880 --> 01:29:45,760
could change that day, I would 
in a heartbeat change that day. 

1590
01:29:46,560 --> 01:29:48,600
I would have taken the. 
Day off work and just gone and 

1591
01:29:48,600 --> 01:29:53,400
got him. 
But yeah, yeah, I wouldn't have 

1592
01:29:53,400 --> 01:29:54,920
jumped in. 
The forklift, yeah. 

1593
01:29:56,040 --> 01:29:59,200
Yeah, yeah, I know. 
I we would have changed that 

1594
01:29:59,200 --> 01:30:04,480
day, but the. 
Starters did a line to keep me 

1595
01:30:04,480 --> 01:30:08,400
alive and perfectly well. 
Here's the thing, I. 

1596
01:30:08,400 --> 01:30:12,280
Would change that day if I could
keep my memories, because I 

1597
01:30:12,280 --> 01:30:15,320
still want Atlas and I still 
want Gaia. 

1598
01:30:16,320 --> 01:30:19,520
And if the accident didn't 
happen, if the accident didn't 

1599
01:30:19,520 --> 01:30:22,680
happen, we would have never been
in the situation to get Atlas. 

1600
01:30:22,680 --> 01:30:25,160
And if we never got Atlas, we 
would have never gotten Gaia. 

1601
01:30:26,120 --> 01:30:28,720
And what? 
They're more important than my 

1602
01:30:28,720 --> 01:30:30,000
legs. 
It's not what I'm. 

1603
01:30:30,040 --> 01:30:33,560
Saying, but I'm saying like if 
we could go back and change it, 

1604
01:30:33,560 --> 01:30:36,080
obviously we'd know that we're 
changing it. 

1605
01:30:36,440 --> 01:30:40,080
And so I'd want like if I'm 
gonna change it, there you go. 

1606
01:30:40,120 --> 01:30:41,600
Sure. 
I can still get these two 

1607
01:30:41,600 --> 01:30:45,680
animals that we got after the 
accident because what like what 

1608
01:30:45,680 --> 01:30:48,280
if we had You can? 
We'll let you keep the animals 

1609
01:30:48,320 --> 01:30:48,880
there. 
There you go. 

1610
01:30:48,880 --> 01:30:49,880
Yeah. 
Yeah, you're good. 

1611
01:30:49,960 --> 01:30:52,320
Keep the animal. 
Yeah, like, you know, I'd still 

1612
01:30:52,320 --> 01:30:54,800
have to wait because that was in
2019. 

1613
01:30:54,800 --> 01:30:58,680
Gaia was born in two years ago, 
you know, and Atlas was born in 

1614
01:30:58,680 --> 01:31:00,520
2020. 
So like, it would still be a 

1615
01:31:00,520 --> 01:31:05,120
timeline there, but I'd want to 
keep my memories of our babies 

1616
01:31:05,120 --> 01:31:06,960
so that when the time came, like
really? 

1617
01:31:07,760 --> 01:31:11,080
Messed us both up after the 
accident though was my accident 

1618
01:31:11,080 --> 01:31:14,760
happened and then COVID happened
Yeah right. 

1619
01:31:14,760 --> 01:31:19,280
Like like when we left Chicago 
two days later, they was when 

1620
01:31:19,280 --> 01:31:22,280
they. 
Like had the the little lockdown

1621
01:31:22,280 --> 01:31:26,920
going on, so like. 
Ever since the accident, my our,

1622
01:31:27,440 --> 01:31:32,240
at least in my mind, our the 
timeline and time has been time.

1623
01:31:32,680 --> 01:31:35,240
Has just. 
Been yeah, just speed up 

1624
01:31:35,280 --> 01:31:39,480
immensely and gone by so quickly
like past six years have just 

1625
01:31:39,600 --> 01:31:41,240
like flown by like especially 
because. 

1626
01:31:41,280 --> 01:31:44,040
Lauren was so prone to infection
during that beginning bitch, 

1627
01:31:44,040 --> 01:31:47,720
like when we got back from 
Chicago and like it was the 

1628
01:31:47,720 --> 01:31:51,400
height of, you know, like the 
everyone's, no one's leaving 

1629
01:31:51,400 --> 01:31:54,480
their house. 
And like with Lauren being so 

1630
01:31:54,480 --> 01:31:56,920
prone to infection, we're like, 
well, we don't know, like how 

1631
01:31:56,920 --> 01:31:59,680
his body is going to handle this
if he does get it. 

1632
01:31:59,680 --> 01:32:01,840
So we might as well not risk it,
you know? 

1633
01:32:02,120 --> 01:32:05,520
And so we went like straight 
into our lives, but it was still

1634
01:32:05,520 --> 01:32:08,360
like this new way of living at 
the time, you know? 

1635
01:32:08,360 --> 01:32:10,920
And so it was like these two big
changes being made. 

1636
01:32:11,240 --> 01:32:14,400
And so those first, like, I want
to say like the first like 3 1/2

1637
01:32:14,400 --> 01:32:17,400
years since the accent were just
kind of like a blip. 

1638
01:32:17,680 --> 01:32:21,960
And in the last like 2-3 years, 
we've kind of been slowing down 

1639
01:32:21,960 --> 01:32:24,760
and being like, whoa, oh, that 
all went really quick. 

1640
01:32:24,760 --> 01:32:26,360
And did you get COVID? 
No. 

1641
01:32:26,800 --> 01:32:28,560
You did. 
Well, you did. 

1642
01:32:29,920 --> 01:32:34,040
He did once. 
And it was like last year, yes, 

1643
01:32:34,040 --> 01:32:36,600
because the first time I got 
COVID, I got it from you. 

1644
01:32:38,360 --> 01:32:41,080
But he was asymptomatic, 
essentially. 

1645
01:32:41,200 --> 01:32:42,880
Oh, wow. 
He had like a kind of sore 

1646
01:32:42,880 --> 01:32:45,680
throat, but he vapes and smokes.
So like, he didn't. 

1647
01:32:45,720 --> 01:32:47,720
We always have sore throats, you
know? 

1648
01:32:48,240 --> 01:32:49,720
And so he didn't think of 
anything of it. 

1649
01:32:49,720 --> 01:32:51,160
And he was kind of like a little
glowy. 

1650
01:32:51,160 --> 01:32:55,560
How does sicknesses affect you? 
I don't think sick at all. 

1651
01:32:55,560 --> 01:32:58,480
My theory. 
Is he gets chronic kidney 

1652
01:32:58,480 --> 01:33:01,080
infections, chronic gut 
infections, and he's got this 

1653
01:33:01,080 --> 01:33:04,640
chronic pain and I think his 
body's so busy fighting off all 

1654
01:33:04,640 --> 01:33:07,680
these other things that like 
colds and flus, they just kind 

1655
01:33:07,680 --> 01:33:10,360
of don't really his He's like 
just get out of here. 

1656
01:33:10,480 --> 01:33:13,440
Like we don't, you know, like 
just push, they push away. 

1657
01:33:13,440 --> 01:33:15,320
They're two weeks. 
But yeah, right. 

1658
01:33:15,600 --> 01:33:16,240
He got. 
I don't know. 

1659
01:33:16,240 --> 01:33:18,040
What you're dealing with, we 
didn't realize. 

1660
01:33:18,040 --> 01:33:23,760
It and then I was like down for 
the count, like out of it and 

1661
01:33:23,760 --> 01:33:26,280
two weeks. 
Well, no the. 

1662
01:33:26,280 --> 01:33:30,160
First time I got COVID, I was in
bed for like 3 days and then I 

1663
01:33:30,240 --> 01:33:33,640
recovered weight quicker. 
And that's when you're like, Oh 

1664
01:33:33,640 --> 01:33:36,080
yeah, I had a kind of a sore 
throat for a couple of days. 

1665
01:33:36,080 --> 01:33:39,880
And then like, yeah. 
And then the second time I got 

1666
01:33:39,880 --> 01:33:47,200
COVID was the end of last year 
and that one I was like in the 

1667
01:33:47,280 --> 01:33:52,720
in bed fever dream, like 
sweating terrible. 

1668
01:33:52,720 --> 01:33:56,960
I'm not like I'm wasn't mentally
present for like it was bad, 

1669
01:33:56,960 --> 01:33:58,080
yes. 
When she wasn't. 

1670
01:33:58,080 --> 01:33:59,280
In bed. 
She was in the bath. 

1671
01:33:59,320 --> 01:34:00,400
Yeah. 
Oh, dying. 

1672
01:34:00,760 --> 01:34:03,360
And then? 
It took like 2 weeks for me to 

1673
01:34:03,360 --> 01:34:07,800
be able to like walk farther 
than like 50 feet without like 

1674
01:34:08,920 --> 01:34:10,800
oh man yeah that one took me 
out. 

1675
01:34:10,800 --> 01:34:14,680
But yeah, he only got it the one
time and he had a little sore 

1676
01:34:14,680 --> 01:34:16,080
throat. 
That was it. 

1677
01:34:16,200 --> 01:34:18,880
I was just curious if. 
It was like a big concern for 

1678
01:34:18,880 --> 01:34:20,160
you that that was going to. 
We didn't. 

1679
01:34:20,680 --> 01:34:21,680
Yeah. 
You had no idea. 

1680
01:34:21,720 --> 01:34:23,640
We took the. 
Precautions because we're like 

1681
01:34:23,640 --> 01:34:28,760
he's prone to infection so like 
what if it is one yeah and then 

1682
01:34:28,760 --> 01:34:32,960
it ended up being totally fine 
for him his his but I I do think

1683
01:34:32,960 --> 01:34:36,000
that his body's just and it's a 
theory obviously but I think his

1684
01:34:36,000 --> 01:34:40,680
body's built up such a like a 
push out of infections that 

1685
01:34:41,200 --> 01:34:48,440
certain ones like it's certain 
COVID is viral right As a viral 

1686
01:34:48,440 --> 01:34:52,360
and yeah and so certain things 
like the colds and flus and 

1687
01:34:52,360 --> 01:34:54,960
stuff his body's just like we 
don't have time for this get out

1688
01:34:54,960 --> 01:34:59,440
of here you know well I I. 
Think your story is absolutely 

1689
01:34:59,440 --> 01:35:04,080
incredible totally like it's 
like bananas and you guys are 

1690
01:35:04,080 --> 01:35:08,800
incredible your your channel is 
awesome I've been we try we. 

1691
01:35:08,800 --> 01:35:11,160
Try and where. 
Can people find you? 

1692
01:35:11,160 --> 01:35:13,000
What's the name of the channel 
Sabia? 

1693
01:35:13,160 --> 01:35:16,920
And Lauren, Sabi and Lauren. 
Yeah, he needs workout 

1694
01:35:16,920 --> 01:35:20,720
equipment. 
We need some, some, some, you 

1695
01:35:20,720 --> 01:35:23,160
know, some doctors and nurses. 
Yeah, some prosthetics. 

1696
01:35:23,240 --> 01:35:25,800
Be a surgeon. 
There, who has no ethics and 

1697
01:35:25,800 --> 01:35:28,240
goes, yeah, I'll open you up 
somebody. 

1698
01:35:28,240 --> 01:35:31,240
'S got some really cool new way 
of doing things that just yeah, 

1699
01:35:31,400 --> 01:35:34,040
yeah. 
Who knows, but that's reach out 

1700
01:35:34,040 --> 01:35:35,280
to him. 
Was to try and. 

1701
01:35:35,280 --> 01:35:38,320
Get there, I'm actually. 
Starting to work with this 

1702
01:35:38,320 --> 01:35:43,480
nonprofit organization they're 
going to get me set up with a 

1703
01:35:43,480 --> 01:35:48,120
dry suit that is custom fit 
tailored for me is bandy around 

1704
01:35:48,120 --> 01:35:51,560
these areas to for some 
collection and then they're 

1705
01:35:51,560 --> 01:35:55,560
going to 3D print me some fins 
and whatnot teach me how to swim

1706
01:35:55,640 --> 01:35:59,880
as independently as possible 
because at the moment I I spin 

1707
01:35:59,880 --> 01:36:02,200
like a log in a log rolling well
and he's. 

1708
01:36:02,360 --> 01:36:05,880
Top heavy in the water so like 
when he floats, like even if he 

1709
01:36:05,880 --> 01:36:09,120
has a normal life jacket on he 
goes bottom up like a bobber. 

1710
01:36:09,120 --> 01:36:11,560
And so we have to. 
Like you know you. 

1711
01:36:11,680 --> 01:36:14,280
Know floaties I have. 
For like babies in the bath 

1712
01:36:14,280 --> 01:36:16,120
where it's just like 2 brown. 
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 

1713
01:36:16,480 --> 01:36:19,720
You know, like the standard boat
life jackets, those orange ones.

1714
01:36:19,920 --> 01:36:22,560
I pretty much have put one of 
those around his neck when he's 

1715
01:36:22,560 --> 01:36:24,280
in the water. 
And even then he's still like 

1716
01:36:24,280 --> 01:36:26,640
his bottom side still floats up.
So he's just like, they're 

1717
01:36:26,640 --> 01:36:29,600
laying in the water, like, 
because his bottom side comes up

1718
01:36:29,600 --> 01:36:32,320
and his head goes down. 
Oh, that's yeah. 

1719
01:36:32,320 --> 01:36:34,760
As you said, that can't be good.
And then if you let. 

1720
01:36:34,760 --> 01:36:39,240
Me go I'll just spin literally 
like a log because my my one 

1721
01:36:39,240 --> 01:36:42,320
arm. 
But so they're going to teach me

1722
01:36:42,320 --> 01:36:45,200
how to swim as independently as 
possible by also getting me set 

1723
01:36:45,200 --> 01:36:48,360
up with, you know, like a fin or
whatever on my arm. 

1724
01:36:48,360 --> 01:36:50,960
Are you ever going to have a? 
Prosthetic for your arm, yes, 

1725
01:36:50,960 --> 01:36:53,400
Yeah. 
So after the body prosthetic 

1726
01:36:53,760 --> 01:36:56,160
with the company in Helena that 
we're working with currently, 

1727
01:36:56,160 --> 01:36:59,200
they're gonna get me in our work
on prosthetic. 

1728
01:36:59,440 --> 01:37:01,440
We're just working on the body 
prosthetic first. 

1729
01:37:01,440 --> 01:37:02,240
Yeah. 
And. 

1730
01:37:02,240 --> 01:37:05,200
Eventually we will be. 
He'll be getting an Adam Lim's 

1731
01:37:05,200 --> 01:37:07,760
arm, but they're still like in 
production. 

1732
01:37:07,760 --> 01:37:10,160
What is that? 
It's so it's M. 

1733
01:37:10,160 --> 01:37:13,440
Lim's it's this company down in 
San Francisco. 

1734
01:37:13,440 --> 01:37:17,320
What they're doing is they're 
coming up with an arm that not 

1735
01:37:17,320 --> 01:37:21,520
only has like 1000 more sensors 
than the regular prosthetic 

1736
01:37:21,520 --> 01:37:24,840
arms, but you can have full 
movement of each finger. 

1737
01:37:25,080 --> 01:37:27,600
Yeah, but by using your muscles 
and. 

1738
01:37:28,760 --> 01:37:31,520
But also it restores sense of 
touch. 

1739
01:37:31,640 --> 01:37:35,520
Yeah, it. 
Restores like 5% sense of touch 

1740
01:37:35,520 --> 01:37:37,520
so you you can. 
Feel what you're picking up, 

1741
01:37:37,520 --> 01:37:41,560
what you are asking, and. 
And because of like that mixed 

1742
01:37:41,560 --> 01:37:46,400
with the independent control of 
the digits, like like you could 

1743
01:37:46,400 --> 01:37:50,480
pick up a cherry tomato with it 
and squeeze it OK without like 

1744
01:37:50,480 --> 01:37:52,840
breaking it, you know, like 
that's how much it gives you 

1745
01:37:52,840 --> 01:37:55,520
control of like you would pick 
up a tomato and give it a little

1746
01:37:55,520 --> 01:37:57,760
squeeze and be able to control 
that when it's like. 

1747
01:37:58,040 --> 01:38:02,280
Freezing and then it. 
It's it's the, the goal is like 

1748
01:38:02,280 --> 01:38:04,440
to restore. 
Like I think it was like 25% 

1749
01:38:04,440 --> 01:38:07,440
sense of touch. 
The atom limbs is a good example

1750
01:38:07,440 --> 01:38:09,960
of what I was talking about 
earlier with our social media 

1751
01:38:09,960 --> 01:38:12,720
and the reach and stuff, because
we actually discovered atom 

1752
01:38:12,720 --> 01:38:16,040
limbs. 
We saw a TikTok about them and 

1753
01:38:16,040 --> 01:38:18,760
like this, you know, and we're 
like, Oh my gosh, that's crazy. 

1754
01:38:18,760 --> 01:38:20,120
And so like we like, was it the 
girl that? 

1755
01:38:20,120 --> 01:38:23,720
Got her arm lost by a shark I 
know. 

1756
01:38:23,760 --> 01:38:25,600
Because I I. 
I think we it. 

1757
01:38:25,600 --> 01:38:29,040
Was it was just like a video 
from the company of like a guy 

1758
01:38:29,040 --> 01:38:32,000
testing it out or something. 
OK, but then we like looked into

1759
01:38:32,000 --> 01:38:35,680
this arm and we were like, Oh my
like that's really amazing. 

1760
01:38:35,680 --> 01:38:38,640
And then we like we like shared 
the video and we're like, this 

1761
01:38:38,640 --> 01:38:41,640
would be so sick. 
And then all of our subscribers 

1762
01:38:41,640 --> 01:38:44,720
like went to Adam Slims pages 
and were like tagging us and 

1763
01:38:44,720 --> 01:38:47,200
like, check these guys out, 
check these guys out like they 

1764
01:38:47,200 --> 01:38:50,440
could use this arm. 
And then the CEO, Tyler Hayes, 

1765
01:38:51,480 --> 01:38:54,600
he ended up like actually like 
personally reaching out to us 

1766
01:38:54,600 --> 01:38:58,800
and being like come tour, like 
come, you can come mess around 

1767
01:38:58,800 --> 01:39:02,040
with like the beta product like 
and he was like pretty much like

1768
01:39:02,040 --> 01:39:07,160
was like once this is on the 
line for like recreation, like 

1769
01:39:07,440 --> 01:39:11,160
for every day people and it's 
not in like testing anymore. 

1770
01:39:11,160 --> 01:39:14,080
Like you guys are going to be 
one of the first to get it like 

1771
01:39:14,360 --> 01:39:15,720
all of this. 
That's awesome. 

1772
01:39:15,840 --> 01:39:17,000
And that must have made you. 
Feel good, huh? 

1773
01:39:17,000 --> 01:39:22,280
Yeah, it. 
Made me cry, honestly, when when

1774
01:39:22,280 --> 01:39:25,520
it first happened, just because 
that was like 5. 

1775
01:39:26,040 --> 01:39:28,480
That was initially right after 
we got home. 

1776
01:39:29,440 --> 01:39:32,040
Yeah, it was like 4. 
Years ago, but the CEO. 

1777
01:39:32,040 --> 01:39:34,320
Created like a whole TikTok 
video and everything. 

1778
01:39:34,320 --> 01:39:35,240
Yeah, he was. 
Really. 

1779
01:39:35,240 --> 01:39:36,920
Cool, he was going. 
To. 

1780
01:39:37,040 --> 01:39:39,600
Do yeah, it was. 
It was pretty, pretty cool 

1781
01:39:39,600 --> 01:39:41,320
stuff. 
That's so cool contact. 

1782
01:39:41,320 --> 01:39:45,360
So like, you know, when the time
comes and stuff and we we keep 

1783
01:39:45,360 --> 01:39:47,680
meaning to get down there 
because he told us like, what if

1784
01:39:47,680 --> 01:39:50,320
we come down like we can get a 
tour and whatnot. 

1785
01:39:50,720 --> 01:39:53,640
But so that's like, you know, 
that's an exciting thing that's 

1786
01:39:53,640 --> 01:39:56,840
going to be happening eventually
that they're just still never 

1787
01:39:56,840 --> 01:40:00,280
been able to experience without 
the the real social media. 

1788
01:40:00,280 --> 01:40:02,600
Yeah, but they're they're still 
in development. 

1789
01:40:02,640 --> 01:40:05,040
And yeah. 
For it to. 

1790
01:40:05,040 --> 01:40:06,840
Come off the line and we still 
need. 

1791
01:40:06,840 --> 01:40:13,240
An arm at speed time. 
And in the meantime, yeah, I So 

1792
01:40:13,240 --> 01:40:15,480
what happened? 
So I was stuck bed bound for 

1793
01:40:15,480 --> 01:40:21,040
like 10 months with two kidney 
stones that would not pass. 

1794
01:40:21,080 --> 01:40:24,200
And they couldn't just break 
them because they were behind my

1795
01:40:24,200 --> 01:40:26,080
spine. 
And the machine doesn't go 

1796
01:40:26,080 --> 01:40:27,760
through bone like that. 
Oh my gosh. 

1797
01:40:28,240 --> 01:40:30,240
And so. 
I was stuck bed bound for 10 

1798
01:40:30,240 --> 01:40:34,600
months with an extra tube in my 
kidney because this body 

1799
01:40:34,600 --> 01:40:37,960
prosthetic doesn't allow for an 
extra tube in my kidney. 

1800
01:40:38,520 --> 01:40:40,720
And so I wasn't able to sit up 
at all for 10 months. 

1801
01:40:40,720 --> 01:40:44,200
So I was stuck bed bound for 10 
months and that's that 10 months

1802
01:40:44,200 --> 01:40:49,040
is what kind of kicked me in the
ass to, you know, get up and 

1803
01:40:49,400 --> 01:40:53,800
start. 
That 10 months of not doing 

1804
01:40:53,800 --> 01:40:56,600
anything, not being able to do 
anything, made me realize that 

1805
01:40:57,080 --> 01:41:00,400
the whole past four or five 
years I had just been existing 

1806
01:41:00,400 --> 01:41:02,480
and not living. 
Wow. 

1807
01:41:02,960 --> 01:41:06,760
And so it gotten a little. 
Like stagnant at that point. 

1808
01:41:06,760 --> 01:41:08,080
Yeah, Yeah. 
And. 

1809
01:41:08,080 --> 01:41:12,600
So it made me start to push for 
things that I want to happen or 

1810
01:41:12,600 --> 01:41:17,160
need to happen in my life that I
was just waiting, hoping that 

1811
01:41:17,160 --> 01:41:19,600
they would just come along and 
happen. 

1812
01:41:19,600 --> 01:41:21,480
I don't know why. 
And instead it made. 

1813
01:41:21,480 --> 01:41:23,280
You take charge and yeah, I 
mean. 

1814
01:41:23,600 --> 01:41:26,680
The that 10 months made me 
realize that I needed to start 

1815
01:41:26,720 --> 01:41:31,480
taking charge and advocating for
myself and really start getting 

1816
01:41:31,480 --> 01:41:35,440
the ball rolling these different
things myself if I want them to 

1817
01:41:35,440 --> 01:41:38,080
happen. 
And so like that's why the body 

1818
01:41:38,080 --> 01:41:41,480
prosthetics happening, the arm 
prosthetic we're working on 

1819
01:41:41,480 --> 01:41:44,040
getting caregivers. 
We're, we're, we're looking for 

1820
01:41:44,040 --> 01:41:50,280
a handicap accessible vehicle, 
preferably a Yukon XL or yeah, 

1821
01:41:50,280 --> 01:41:51,800
that's. 
Yeah, because it was. 

1822
01:41:51,800 --> 01:41:55,320
There was only out of the things
that weren't transit vans, there

1823
01:41:55,320 --> 01:41:58,600
was only two that had all-wheel 
or 4 wheel drive options. 

1824
01:41:58,920 --> 01:42:02,040
And the only one that wasn't a 
massive truck that I'm not 

1825
01:42:02,040 --> 01:42:04,240
driving anywhere was the Yukon 
XL. 

1826
01:42:04,240 --> 01:42:10,400
So. 
And then also getting like a, an

1827
01:42:10,400 --> 01:42:14,280
occupational therapist to come 
to my home and do a home 

1828
01:42:14,280 --> 01:42:19,680
evaluation on this needs 
modified to, you know, like say 

1829
01:42:19,680 --> 01:42:23,160
like the cabinets and cupboards 
and whatnot in our kitchen could

1830
01:42:23,160 --> 01:42:24,760
use pull out shelving and 
whatnot. 

1831
01:42:24,760 --> 01:42:29,120
That way I could then access it 
myself and I could start cooking

1832
01:42:29,400 --> 01:42:31,600
meals myself in the kitchen and 
whatnot. 

1833
01:42:31,960 --> 01:42:35,320
Just a lot of work. 
To gain certain independences 

1834
01:42:35,320 --> 01:42:38,640
back, yeah. 
And just really working on 

1835
01:42:39,000 --> 01:42:42,720
everything and anything I can 
and any facet whatsoever that 

1836
01:42:42,720 --> 01:42:45,080
gets me any independence back 
whatsoever. 

1837
01:42:45,840 --> 01:42:49,240
Whether yeah would be physical 
therapy, occupational therapy. 

1838
01:42:49,240 --> 01:42:52,200
I hope people are listening. 
They got a. 

1839
01:42:52,760 --> 01:42:55,280
Nice long list of things that I 
think you guys deserve. 

1840
01:42:55,600 --> 01:42:58,880
But that's for sure that 
nonprofit organization is making

1841
01:42:58,880 --> 01:43:05,920
the the dry suit, getting me 3D 
to like fins or whatever, help 

1842
01:43:05,920 --> 01:43:09,320
it kind of teach me how to swim 
as independently as possible. 

1843
01:43:09,800 --> 01:43:15,320
But and then their main goal is 
to get me scuba diving because 

1844
01:43:15,320 --> 01:43:18,040
that's what they do is they get 
people with mental and physical 

1845
01:43:18,040 --> 01:43:20,320
disabilities, not swords scuba 
diving. 

1846
01:43:20,800 --> 01:43:24,280
And so they're going to teach me
how to scuba dive and where 

1847
01:43:24,280 --> 01:43:27,640
that's going to happen at the 
crater near Salt Lake City, 

1848
01:43:27,920 --> 01:43:32,120
which apparently is this like 
geothermal spring that's like 

1849
01:43:32,480 --> 01:43:37,160
surrounded by limestone and it 
stays like 90 to 100° all year 

1850
01:43:37,160 --> 01:43:39,560
long. 
And it's just this beautiful, 

1851
01:43:39,560 --> 01:43:41,760
beautiful underwater, like cave 
area. 

1852
01:43:42,120 --> 01:43:46,160
It's just amazing to go to. 
And so I'm super excited for it.

1853
01:43:46,480 --> 01:43:48,080
It should be happening this 
summer. 

1854
01:43:49,800 --> 01:43:52,240
Actually. 
Got a phone call with the whole 

1855
01:43:52,240 --> 01:44:00,240
team of people, Duke Medical 
University, Mayo Clinic, and the

1856
01:44:00,240 --> 01:44:02,560
people from the organization 
itself. 

1857
01:44:03,000 --> 01:44:07,000
They all want to have a Zoom 
call together to talk about next

1858
01:44:07,000 --> 01:44:08,560
steps. 
That's awesome. 

1859
01:44:08,960 --> 01:44:10,480
Yeah, it'll. 
Be really cool for him. 

1860
01:44:10,880 --> 01:44:13,040
That'll be totally awesome. 
I'm not. 

1861
01:44:13,040 --> 01:44:13,880
He's not. 
Part Dating. 

1862
01:44:14,040 --> 01:44:18,040
At it I have. 
A deep, deep, deep fear of death

1863
01:44:18,040 --> 01:44:21,640
by any type of suffocation. 
Drowning is on that list. 

1864
01:44:21,640 --> 01:44:23,960
You won't catch me ever trying 
to scuba dive. 

1865
01:44:25,040 --> 01:44:26,720
No, thank you. 
I'll go swim. 

1866
01:44:26,920 --> 01:44:28,480
I'll go swimming. 
But. 

1867
01:44:28,840 --> 01:44:32,000
I did just ski not too long ago 
for the first time in my life. 

1868
01:44:32,000 --> 01:44:34,240
Wait, what? 
I went, yeah, I went skiing for 

1869
01:44:34,240 --> 01:44:38,000
the first time in my so he was. 
Like this, like toboggan esque. 

1870
01:44:38,360 --> 01:44:40,120
It was like all the ski sled. 
Yeah. 

1871
01:44:40,360 --> 01:44:44,840
And then volunteered. 
The guy who runs Eagle Mount is 

1872
01:44:44,840 --> 01:44:48,840
the the nonprofit that does it. 
But pretty much Lauren was 

1873
01:44:48,840 --> 01:44:52,920
fitted for this ski sled and 
then he it was connected via 

1874
01:44:52,920 --> 01:44:59,480
like a rope to skier or a 
snowboarder volunteers for the 

1875
01:44:59,520 --> 01:45:02,840
How was that the program fun? 
Fun dude. 

1876
01:45:03,240 --> 01:45:07,960
It took me like 7-8, eight runs 
down showdown down the mountain 

1877
01:45:08,120 --> 01:45:12,560
where near our hometown, and it 
was the first time since the 

1878
01:45:12,560 --> 01:45:15,480
accident that I've actually like
screamed with joy. 

1879
01:45:15,480 --> 01:45:17,560
And he was. 
Butterflies. 

1880
01:45:17,560 --> 01:45:21,160
My stomach type feeling, you 
know, because they took me off 

1881
01:45:21,160 --> 01:45:24,200
some jumps and stuff too. 
And so you know what I'm talking

1882
01:45:24,200 --> 01:45:26,800
about. 
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 

1883
01:45:26,800 --> 01:45:28,800
It was awesome. 
First time I have experienced 

1884
01:45:28,800 --> 01:45:31,320
that since the accident. 
So it was, it was, it was a 

1885
01:45:31,320 --> 01:45:32,440
great experience. 
It was. 

1886
01:45:32,560 --> 01:45:33,520
Yeah, it was. 
Really. 

1887
01:45:33,520 --> 01:45:34,840
All right, take him skiing. 
Too. 

1888
01:45:34,840 --> 01:45:37,840
And he's a ski trip, folks. 
That and my. 

1889
01:45:37,840 --> 01:45:41,280
Brother actually came along and 
partook in that along with my 

1890
01:45:41,280 --> 01:45:43,760
mother too, with my 
mother-in-law, Yeah. 

1891
01:45:43,760 --> 01:45:46,720
So it was a nice, nice little. 
Family good together. 

1892
01:45:46,920 --> 01:45:49,560
Family spending time. 
Yeah, yeah. 

1893
01:45:50,080 --> 01:45:52,640
Well, I appreciate you guys 
coming out, making the truck out

1894
01:45:52,640 --> 01:45:53,800
here. 
This is brand new. 

1895
01:45:53,800 --> 01:45:56,520
For us, so this is exciting. 
This is You're welcome back. 

1896
01:45:56,520 --> 01:45:58,600
Anytime. 
Awesome. 

1897
01:46:00,040 --> 01:46:01,480
I'm going to make that drive 
again. 

1898
01:46:01,480 --> 01:46:05,360
Man, that was a lot, all right. 
Thanks you guys. 

1899
01:46:05,400 --> 01:46:06,480
Yeah, thank you. 
Appreciate it. 

1900
01:46:06,640 --> 01:46:06,960
Thank. 
You.