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Major Feyko provides a very inspirational message.
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When I came back home and I was living in Petawawa at the time, I always believed I wanted to be the same person that I was after injury as I was before injury. And that meant for me I was very athletic and did a lot of sports before so I wanted to do those sports after. I was only a month after being injured I still had open wounds and stuff but there was a chance to play hockey and I said you know what, I’m going to play hockey. I could barely move my knee and I couldn’t skate that well but just to be out there. My doctors didn’t really like it because it set me back physically but mentally it just propelled me into you know okay I can do this. Now I have an excuse not to get that backhand pass because of my vision but sport played a vital role. And then I really looked around. I looked at some of the heroes that I’ve always had growing up. You look at my brother who, he was injured in a parachute accident and he became a golf pro after and did a whole bunch of Iron Man Canada’s and he was doing a lot through sport. You look at Terry Fox and what he accomplished is incredible to run a marathon a day across the country. And then Rick Hansen. And these individuals have traumatic events happen to them and their lives have changed but they just kept on going and have that spirit to go through so, you know, I drew on that. I also drew on my experience from Vimy Ridge when I stayed in the military and you know what they would have went through if they were in a similar situation it would have been a lot worse and the medicine and everything we have now. For me I was motivated to keep on doing. I ran a marathon after. I ran a marathon before I was injured so I had to run one after. And I kept on playing sports, I played golf, I played hockey, I still ran. I did those kind of things which really, you know, if I had a challenging day I would go golfing or go for a run and just blow off that steam and do it. So it was very, it was before Soldier On or any of these programs existed so I kind of did it on my own.