I Broke Six Vertebrae in My Spine

I got run over by a truck in a triathlon in 1986. On the biking portion of the race, I broke six vertebrae in my spine, and I was told that I'd never walk again. The typical surgical procedure for multiple compression fractures with cord impingement is this surgery called Harrington rod surgery. And in my case, they were going to cut off the backs of parts of my vertebrae, from the base of my neck to the base of my spine. And then they screw in these long stainless steel rods. And when you screw those rods in into the vertebrae, acts like cantilever. It lifts the spinal column off the cord. But the prognosis was I probably wouldn't walk again, and that the surgery was hopeful that it would give me some relief. I think if it was any other patient, Louis, besides me, I probably would have recommended the surgery. But this was me.