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they vaguely . Yeah ,

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pretty much . We're into a controlled

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crash landing and everyone else

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had seats and I was sitting on the ramp

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of the aircraft were sitting on metal .

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Yeah . It went all the way at my

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ceasefire . Yeah .

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Why you're a tough day ? Not

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Still going I've been there over three

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years over 14 surgeries . 10 of them on

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my neck . Yeah that

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um my neck my injuries they

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fused from sea ford T two C four to C

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seven with rods and there's a big

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titanium plate in the middle of it on

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the back confused from C four to T two

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on both sides . All rods and plates

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bill . And then the nerve damage also

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caused my bladder not to work as it

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should . So now I have two generators

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inside me that work work with my

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bladder and for my bladder and that the

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one I just got diagnosed with last week

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he was today like kind of I can't

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exactly remember the name of it but it

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was

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I know a lot of people in the hospital ,

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a lot of the hots who set you up for it .

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And one of them , I was going through a

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period of time where I wasn't leaving

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my room , I didn't want to do anything .

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So they got me in touch with them and I

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went into pool with him three times and

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here I am . You know Oh and

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right you yes gives me something other

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to think about . You know when I was

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down underwater all day today is the

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last thing I was thinking about losing

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problems You know and that wasn't

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thinking , Hey , I'm 40 years old in 20

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years , who knows ? I'm gonna be in a

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wheelchair the rest of my life at least .

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Yeah . Story ,

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we'll take off the life cycle . Mm

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Yeah , that's that's a good question

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because I am an intern for the wounded

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warrior project and my specialty on

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them is peer mentoring , which is going

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to talk to you guys up in the fourth

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floor impatient and a lot of them have

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had the same type injuries as me , not

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as far down or any of the other side

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effects , but I tell them to get out

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and you can ride a bike and go on trips .

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You can go to Belgium and we got guys

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riding the belt , going to Belgium to

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ride the battle of the bulge . All paid

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for trips . All you know , people want

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to see us get better and they set up

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these trips . They're going to go

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through a grieving process . You know ,

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when they get in there and probably end

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up for a little while before they were

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able to do