Thought I was Invincible

I was 27 at the time and at that point, you know, it’s 27, infantry and the air borne, we pretty much think of ourselves as invincible so I didn’t think anything was going to be able to stop me. I thought I was going to bounce right back and be right at it again and then kind of reality of the doctors saying I don’t know if you’re going to walk again kind of thing let alone run or skate or do what you used to do. So and again, at 27 I kind of tried to prove the doctors wrong and they said you know I would probably walk in six to eight months and I was up on crutches in two months and three months and out of the chair and crutches for another eight months but I was back at it. I was trying as hard as I could to get back at it because I didn’t want to believe that this was going to stop me but eventually it all catches up and it did try to stop me a little bit. The one thing the doctors said to me if I wasn’t in as good a shape as I was then it would have been a lot worse and again with the rehab and willingness to get into the rehab right away and start help me on the journey to get back a lot of my strength and not just lay there and let myself heal, I was proactive in my recovery and getting to physio and in the swimming pool as quick as I could and onto a stationary bike and building strength back up again. Again I was 27 years old so at that point I thought I was invincible so nothing was going to stop me.