September 4, 2024 • 23 mins
This guy has been through a whole lot of stuff this past 9 months...Him walking into the studio was something I never thought I'd see again...Now he's planning on running and you can be a part of it...Check out the story in this podcast...Thanks, Nick
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I just thanks for the opportunity.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Absolutely, it's one O one nine. Katie Za. Well, longtime
friend in here that I thought might not be coming
back in here. Kenny white Man, how you doing.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I'm doing great man, Great to be here today. I
just wanted to say quick. I want to say quick
thank you, uh to you for reaching out to me
while I was in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Absolutely really did so tell me kind of what happened
here now. People that that know you have known you
for years. You're a long time You're a native Pueblo
and right, yes, sir, yeah, yeah, in the Southwest Motors forever,
I've known you.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Yeah, a long time Southwest Motors.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah. But then it was like November fifteenth, something changed
here last year.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I got home from closing the store. I always do
close the store off as sales manager and play with
my daughters before they go to bed home pretty late,
and you know, my wife was telling me we were
too loud and having too much fun, but that never
stopped us.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Typical thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Way that we moved from just jumping off the couch
to somersaults and thirty eight year old not in the
best shape of my life. Probably probably not jumped somersaults
off the couch. Probably shouldn't have been doing that, right, No,
that was dumb, But I didn't think the couch hatted
out for me.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
You know, the couch shattered some kind of grudge for me.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Right, So this is just an innocent thing that's going on.
We're playing and yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
My daughter, no, I even went and got the eggshells off.
We had an eggshell thing. I was like, I don't
want my daughter to get hurt. Yeah, so I wouldn't
put it out in front of the couch because you know,
we live on a rancher. It's a slab, and so
she's jumping on it. I'm like, don't her to get hurt.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
And yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Sprung off the couch and the ottoman it broke under
my feet. My feet went into the couch trapped my
legs and I'd already started going forward. Oh my gosh,
and I basically snapped me into the ground. And the
impact on my on my forehead or wherever, right, it
blew up my c six vertebrae into tiny little fragments.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
So it didn't just smack your head. It resonated all
the way down your back.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Then. Wow, Yeah, so and the sea spines up through
your whole neck. So from the c six down I
basically have no feeling right, completely paralyzed.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, they the surgery part.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
They put a block of cement in my neck and
uh and then did a fusion a couple of vertebraes
up and down. So that's just like one solid block.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Uh huh. So there's no flexibility there.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
No flexing at all.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Right there, I'm not I'm not like an owl anymore.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
You can.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Actually my wife's like, hey, can you look at this?
I'm all, is it like a side glance or is
this like all the way around type of a situation?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
But it wasn't. It didn't just affect your neck.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
No, No, total paralysis from that spot down.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Uh. You see spines, you know, it's.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Pretty close to the brain, which that tells your whole
body what to do.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I put a big.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Roadblock in the communication line my legs. I couldn't couldn't
move my legs, arms, anything. I was flight for life.
Two Memorial doctors. Raoul Sing what what a guy? He?
He was the neurosurgeon that performed the surgery over ten
(03:31):
hours and so.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
All this happened like the same night that happened, I went.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Straight to park you a m R. I mean they
showed up Johnny on the spot. Uh, they put me
all in the This is the most critical time AMR
is actually going to sponsor the race. We're going to
talk about. They're the hope sponsor, right because you're laying there.
I can't move. My wife and daughters are staring at me.
My parents had showed up, they lived there, my neighbors.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
And but I.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Can't I can't move at all.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
And they they picked me up and uh put me
on the stretcher and did all the right things to
make sure my.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Head didn't move.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Which is if you are.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Or see anybody in a in a true state like
I was in who may have a head or neck injury,
don't touch them. Leave it to the pros. That's the
very critical, very critical to a lot of people. You know,
they don't think they're that maybe they're not that hurts
and they get in a car and they drive to
the emergency room. Well they've been they might have done
(04:37):
irreparable damage.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Right just doing that. So so they get you in,
they flight for life.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
You to Colorado Springs AMR is not flight for life.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
But they did, Yeah, they did.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
They did.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
They have a helicopter and they they did take me
from helicopter to Memorial Hospital. Uh huh uh every kind
of scan in the world, right, all the imaging, and
then you know, say you're goodbye. Actually, one of the harder,
harder things. I left a message to my daughter's in
(05:09):
case I didn't make it. My wife has that message
about just how they're the lights of my life. It's
been the great joy of my life to be their dad,
and well goodbye.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Basically, yeah, because you didn't.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I had no idea.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
And then even if I came out of it, you know,
you never know what you're gonna get when you come
out of something that that taxing, that serious, and all
the ramifications down the line of what you're going to
be like whenever it's all said and done. But I
woke up and I was able to move my right toe.
(05:47):
Three days later I moved the left.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
So that's kind of the glimmer of hope. Yeah, right, yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Talk about some weird milestones, you know, like holding a
toothbrush and brushing my own teeth.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Was it was a major victory. Wow, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Wow, yeah, so you by myself, you've come along in
less than a year, then, I mean, because yeah, so
all that kind of happened that first night, and then
it's recovery after all of that, right, right, I went.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
I went to a memorial and spent a little over
three weeks there, I believe, in and out of icy Us.
I checked out a planet Earth there for a while.
I went through some delirium I mentioned earlier. I was
also a pretty bad alcoholic, and uh so, not only
did I have all this thing going on with that,
(06:39):
and then my body's probably got the withdrawals, right, We'll
never know, But I had imaginary friends, you name it.
I would I would come back to Earth for a
little while.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Maybe some of that helped you get through some of.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
This, That's what I believe. You know.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
My mind kept busy, and then, by the grace of God,
I was able to get admitted to Craig Hospital in Denver.
It took took a little bit of effort. There's a
lot of people who stepped up. I was actually rejected
for my first application by the insurance company. They said
I would get just as well anywhere which the standard
(07:17):
of care for uh at the second tier down is way.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I mean the gap is a really gap between one
and two.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah. Yeah, it's it's not even like varsity JV. It's
it's like.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Something.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Then and they they went to bat for me, my
little brother, my boss Mike, Steve Shirley Benefits brokers, those guys,
you know, really held the insurance accountable for the language
and our policy. And Craig stepped up to they have
a whole team of people that help with that. And uh,
(07:54):
I was admitted to Craig and started to rehab. Journey
Man that you.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Were in a wheelchair when you admitted to Craig, is
I was?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I was completely wheelchair bounding. I started in a power chair.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
And they I couldn't even get from the bed to
the wheelchair. I was airlifted by a Warrior lift into
the wheelchair. And then that I could move around with
my Yeah, and I was. They were still they were
still a little worried about my mental state. I had
someone who went with me everywhere. Uh huh, and like
(08:28):
just like like a minder, you know, just hanging out
my message.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I'm like, I'm okay, I'm not gonna leave I'm not gonna.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I've been worried about your mental state for years, but
I had nothing to do with this.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
You're not alone with that man, that's the truth.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
But through time and time and time, you got a
little more, a little more, a little more correct.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Every every day I was.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I've been working out fast with Paul Andrata. He had
me do eighteen inch one legged box stands about a
week ago and I was almost crying, uh in the
gym because I have a picture from March where they
have me tied to an apparatus on the Basically the
(09:11):
ceiling is called a vectra, and I to make sure
I didn't fall down, right, so you can they can
do a little more aggressive physical therapy because you're not
going to fall down.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
So you're like walking.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
You know, like I'm repelling or something. But to the
vest it's the whole thing. And to lift my one
leg up six inches to touch the top of a
little orange cone, right, That's where I was at in March, right,
and then that was I mean, the even you know,
being getting out of the chair was unbelievable. And you know,
(09:49):
the first time I was able to leave the hospital
with my wife to go somewhere, and we had to
we had to make sure I could get into the car.
They call them transfers. You transfer to the bed, you
trans This's just kind of one blanket term. But I
had to have practice right with the and then they
was signed off. Okay, he can get from the wheelchair
(10:10):
into his seat. Type of a situation.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
You know.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
It was wow, yeah, stuff. You never in your wildest
dreams ever thought you'd have to.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Do complete helplessness, for you can't do anything on your own,
I mean absolutely nothing.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I had my.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Care team showered me, brushed my teeth, did my hair,
but dressed me.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
In February, after the accident, I spent fifteen minutes attempting
to put on a sock while my occupational therapist watched,
maybe giving a little tip here there, right, But at
first I had to get figure out how I was
gonna get my body where I could reach my foot right.
(10:57):
And that was actually, when you're not flexible anymore, you
don't you yeah, exactly. And then once I got through
that hurd'll figure out how to actually, with limited hand function, uh,
put the sock on and very little arm strength, and
I'm all I could think about was look, Hayley, there's
(11:18):
not a planet where my wife hasn't stepped in at
this point to.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Help me get the sock on.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
But she just sat there and washed, and I was like, okay,
I'm not doing the other one.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
If we have to end early, I don't care. I
got it on, you know, So you proved that you
could do that.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Oh yeah, they actually the seamstresses it. Craig put hooks
on my other socks because I could grab them and
hook the hooks and then I could.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Like a cowboy, whip my sock on.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I was like, it's a ten minute process to about
one one. It was unbelievable, you know, But yeah, shower,
they had it so the whole team.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
You know, I couldn't eat either.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I couldn't.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I'm I'd still have a hard time with if like
the meats a little tough.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I'm probably gonna have my wife for you. Yeah, and everyone,
you know you're so ashamed like about your pride, I guess.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
And you're the kind of guy I didn't want anybody
to do anything for it.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Well, I've been a fairly independent entirely, you know, we
all have. But it to me, I learned a lot
about uh, you know, I was humbled and it's okay
to ask for help. But they would, Yeah, they would
feed me and dress me and then out the door. Man,
those women were unbelievable. And and my friend Taylor is
(12:41):
a man nurse and he's gonna come down to my
race and every night, you know, put all I'd put
on splints to keep my arm straight and my hands
straight because I didn't have the muscle strength to do.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
It on my own.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
So everything's kind of contract contracting or whatever. So if
we fast forward a little bit, now you're able to walk,
and you're able to do.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
I started walking, and I've never been a runner in
my life, but you know, they told me I wasn't
really going to walk very good.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
So I wanted to walk, and I thought, well, what's
the next thing.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
It's running, And so I brought it up to the
physical therapist and the and the head spinal guy that
you know each guy. I had a main spinal doctor
that he ran a team of other doctors that helped
me with all the other things. But I was like,
what about, Hey, I think I could jog run. I
(13:35):
think I'll be able to And he's like, oh, no,
maybe one day under you'll be able to and you'll
go to a sports medicine guy and and I was like,
well what if what can we just try? And he's like, well,
you got to go see your neurosurgeon. So I had
to make an appointment with doctor Singh and uh. He
looked at the x rays, looked at me, and I mean, obviously,
(13:57):
you know it's America. Man, we could I could go run,
but I wanted to take advantage of these first class
facilities that my insurance was paying for and that they wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Help me run without the sign offs.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Anyway, he says, that was pretty pretty cool to meet him,
because I don't really remember meeting him, right, I was.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I had broken my neck at that time, so I
got to thank him in person.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
I think maybe your neurosurgeon is about as hard to
get a hold of as maybe like the President layers
to get to this guy, right, I was like, just
just trying to tell him thank you.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
That's all I want to do.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
But anyway, and he told me, he goes, I'm going
to tell my family about you. And I thought, man,
that I've hung on to that compliment like you wouldn't
believe man, and so what then we started running and
then you know, you want to stay motivated. So well,
I'm going to run a five k and then I thought, well,
(14:59):
I put on some chair already.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Events.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
You know, it's not my first it's my first race,
but not my first road.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Well, shoot, I'll just start one, you know.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
And the accessibility disability community, I mean, America is number one,
and we still have a really long way to go,
right and I saw I wanted to do something maybe,
you know, get the whole community together, you know. So
the slogan for my race is to break your neck,
walk runner, roll for all abilities and disabilities. I want
(15:31):
everybody to come. There's no buried entry, there's no fee.
It's going to be at the College at the THUNDERBOWLT
And you know, I was so fortunate through that whole process,
just with you know, the puble being Pueblo and you
reach Todd Kelly. I reached out to him and we
looked at you know, a date, and he said, well,
(15:52):
what we could probably help you with that?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
You know, I said, okay, cool.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
I met with the a D and the track coach
and uh Polinsky and Matt Morris and said yeah, well
we're on board.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Let's let's do this. So these things started coming together.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
And I'm like, oh my god, I I've got to
really run five five kids.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Now I got to do this. Well, man, I can't.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
I've been talking about it. So that's been it's just
been fun, you know.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
And and when people I send my times off to
some of the because every time I go run and
I try to run three miles because I don't want
to be scared of the.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Distance, right right, conditioning. Yeah, And I.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Send it off to my doctors or some of my
physical therapists I became pretty good friends with, and they're
just like, Okay, that's not you, right, I swear, I promise,
I'll know I'm running. I'm actually running, and you know,
God's so good, and I know I get to be
a dad and pick up my kids.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yeah. So this walk run roll, what's the date and everything?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
September eight? The host sites the thunder Bowl.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
It isn't actually over the road race, so you know,
you leave the the university, they'll close down some lanes
and well you'll leave the leave the Thunderbowl, go down,
go up to Wolf Village, make a right the bond
for bridge down to the enclave, walking stick back around
by Massari drops back into the Thunderbowl.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Wow. So it starts at the Thunderbowl, and.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Then we'll have some music, there'll be some booths giveaways.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
But really what you're doing is you're drawing awareness to
what's happened and uh, maybe some other people going through
some of the same stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
There is I I said, we all have scars, man,
everyone's and that's one thing that kind of brought awareness.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
You know, everyone says, you know, you never know what
someone's going through.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
All right, Oh no exactly.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
But it never really rang that true to me. You know,
type a bully.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Well, I know, and you get busy, and you know,
you get kind of centered. I end up the same
way a lot of times. You get self centered on
stuff and you kind of don't think of other things
and other people sometimes and.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
They you know, so everybody, you know, if there's a
six minute mile are out there that wants to show
up or someone who wants.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
To you know, like me, a six hour you know.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Yeah, and anybody's welcome, and I like to keep it going.
I'm gonna raise money. I'm the only one doing it.
So there's really no expenses.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I'm gonna start a nursing scholarship at the Issue Publo
and I'm gonna name it the row will Sing Scholarship
after the neurosurgeon my surgery. And it's just the nurses
are on the front lines. They they're they're fighting the
fight every day. And I thought there's a way I
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could honor, you know kind of. And then the other
the other half the money I want to give back
to Craig her spinal port injury research and rehabilitation.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
So you're taking donations and things like that.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Got a website.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Uh, it's free to do the race, but if you
want to donate, the website is if you google break
your neck five k Pueblo or whatever it shows up.
It's on runner sign up dot com.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Okay, but I will share.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I want to share one story with you real quick.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
I'd just gotten home and at that time I was
really walking slow. And it's like May and a friend
of mine in town text me. I said, He says,
I hear you're walking around town. Victory is near. It's
out of the blue, right, It's like, man, that's cool, man.
(19:33):
And that weekend in the morning, Uh, my daughter woke
up and I went to get her and she wrapped
her arms around my neck and uh carried her into
the kitchen and I realized what I had done. She's
forty pounds, she's right going on five, and I'm standing
there and I'm holding my.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Little girl, and I'm just like, oh my god, this
is unbelieving. This is so awesome. Yeah, I send him
a picture back.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
I man, I've already won. Now it's just time to
run up the score, right And uh, this guy must
be a I mean, he must be a motivator, I'll
tell you, he says back immediately, because.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
But they knew there was a game, you know, show.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
No mercy and I'm gonna go run over there, right
through that wall right now, you know what I mean. Like,
but they did know there was a game, and I'm
not going to show any mercy to this accident, right
and I am going to get it.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
So you're not done.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Every day, you know, and every day we we fight
harder for one step, one inch, whatever it is, whatever
that is for you.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
You know, everybody has, you know.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
With the with the God and good intentions, you can
get a lot of stuff done.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
You know, absolutely so that's kind of my story. Man.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
It's been crazy.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
And you want to talk about the people in Pueblo
supported me and and circle my family, amazing my work.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Same thing.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
You know, Southwest Motors Is is an incredible organization.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Uh in the way they rallied around.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
My and myself and the Thescelin and the Morland families.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
And uh.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Then you know, I bet I went one day without
someone coming to see me at the hospital, you know,
and and the texts and the calls never stopped, the letters. Ah,
you know, in some days it's hard to get out
of bed.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
I was able to every day because of all the
love and support that was shown.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
And now I just want to I want.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
To give back back a little bit as much.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
As I can. Your dad be a husband and give back.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Sure. Sure, Well what a what a fantastic story because
it has a fantastic ending, But so's maybe some other
people that haven't had that fantastic ending yet. But you
give them hope.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Yeah, they we're not done yet.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yeah, you geting them hope.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
We're not done yet, man, And you can always get better. Uh,
even if like I said, whatever you're fighting, you know,
please don't take it to the extremes. I did to
learn what I've learned, Right, you don't have.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
To don't do it.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Don't do that.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Do you not recommend it for anyone? It was my journey.
It worked for me. But it's kind of like I
think it's a one and done thing.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Well, let me ask you a question. Did you take
that couch and that automan and throw it in the trash?
Is that like.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
We're gonna have a bond.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
I got nothing against the house of the room it
happened in, but that couch is gone.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
It's gone.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
I'm very vindictive feelings about that.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
I can see. I can see. Well, Kenny, wait, I know,
to be honest with you, I didn't think we'd be
able to do this. So I'm glad. I'm so glad
you came in here, and you come in here into
your own power. You walked in here, the whole thing.
It's uh, it's quite the testament. And hopefully you again,
like I said, encourage some people maybe are going through
the same kind of stuff. Yeah, I have a love going.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
To run with us, walk with us, roll with us.
You know what's it's it's a movement. Man, We're out
here trying to to just spread the message of piece
and hope. Yeah, Barky says, and love and and it
should be a good time.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
And thanks for having me absolutely being a friend.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
You have absolutely a long time, you know. So September
twenty eighth. What time in the morning, nine am registration?
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Ten am is the run?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Please register. I'm money, got buy t shirts, I gotta
get water. I would love to have you. If you
just show up, that's cool, You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
We are turning no one cheer leaders even.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Yeah, but if if you want a shirt, not just registered,
please there you go.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
It's free to register.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
If you need details, you can reach out to me
and I will link you on as well. But Kenny,
good seeing you man.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
God bless Nick, Thank you bro.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
There you go.
I just thanks for the opportunity.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Absolutely, it's one O one nine. Katie Za. Well, longtime
friend in here that I thought might not be coming
back in here. Kenny white Man, how you doing.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I'm doing great man, Great to be here today. I
just wanted to say quick. I want to say quick
thank you, uh to you for reaching out to me
while I was in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Absolutely really did so tell me kind of what happened
here now. People that that know you have known you
for years. You're a long time You're a native Pueblo
and right, yes, sir, yeah, yeah, in the Southwest Motors forever,
I've known you.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Yeah, a long time Southwest Motors.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah. But then it was like November fifteenth, something changed
here last year.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I got home from closing the store. I always do
close the store off as sales manager and play with
my daughters before they go to bed home pretty late,
and you know, my wife was telling me we were
too loud and having too much fun, but that never
stopped us.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Typical thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Way that we moved from just jumping off the couch
to somersaults and thirty eight year old not in the
best shape of my life. Probably probably not jumped somersaults
off the couch. Probably shouldn't have been doing that, right, No,
that was dumb, But I didn't think the couch hatted
out for me.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
You know, the couch shattered some kind of grudge for me.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Right, So this is just an innocent thing that's going on.
We're playing and yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
My daughter, no, I even went and got the eggshells off.
We had an eggshell thing. I was like, I don't
want my daughter to get hurt. Yeah, so I wouldn't
put it out in front of the couch because you know,
we live on a rancher. It's a slab, and so
she's jumping on it. I'm like, don't her to get hurt.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
And yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Sprung off the couch and the ottoman it broke under
my feet. My feet went into the couch trapped my
legs and I'd already started going forward. Oh my gosh,
and I basically snapped me into the ground. And the
impact on my on my forehead or wherever, right, it
blew up my c six vertebrae into tiny little fragments.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
So it didn't just smack your head. It resonated all
the way down your back.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Then. Wow, Yeah, so and the sea spines up through
your whole neck. So from the c six down I
basically have no feeling right, completely paralyzed.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, they the surgery part.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
They put a block of cement in my neck and
uh and then did a fusion a couple of vertebraes
up and down. So that's just like one solid block.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Uh huh. So there's no flexibility there.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
No flexing at all.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Right there, I'm not I'm not like an owl anymore.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
You can.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Actually my wife's like, hey, can you look at this?
I'm all, is it like a side glance or is
this like all the way around type of a situation?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
But it wasn't. It didn't just affect your neck.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
No, No, total paralysis from that spot down.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Uh. You see spines, you know, it's.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Pretty close to the brain, which that tells your whole
body what to do.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I put a big.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Roadblock in the communication line my legs. I couldn't couldn't
move my legs, arms, anything. I was flight for life.
Two Memorial doctors. Raoul Sing what what a guy? He?
He was the neurosurgeon that performed the surgery over ten
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hours and so.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
All this happened like the same night that happened, I went.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Straight to park you a m R. I mean they
showed up Johnny on the spot. Uh, they put me
all in the This is the most critical time AMR
is actually going to sponsor the race. We're going to
talk about. They're the hope sponsor, right because you're laying there.
I can't move. My wife and daughters are staring at me.
My parents had showed up, they lived there, my neighbors.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
And but I.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Can't I can't move at all.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
And they they picked me up and uh put me
on the stretcher and did all the right things to
make sure my.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Head didn't move.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Which is if you are.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Or see anybody in a in a true state like
I was in who may have a head or neck injury,
don't touch them. Leave it to the pros. That's the
very critical, very critical to a lot of people. You know,
they don't think they're that maybe they're not that hurts
and they get in a car and they drive to
the emergency room. Well they've been they might have done
(04:37):
irreparable damage.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Right just doing that. So so they get you in,
they flight for life.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
You to Colorado Springs AMR is not flight for life.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
But they did, Yeah, they did.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
They did.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
They have a helicopter and they they did take me
from helicopter to Memorial Hospital. Uh huh uh every kind
of scan in the world, right, all the imaging, and
then you know, say you're goodbye. Actually, one of the harder,
harder things. I left a message to my daughter's in
(05:09):
case I didn't make it. My wife has that message
about just how they're the lights of my life. It's
been the great joy of my life to be their dad,
and well goodbye.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Basically, yeah, because you didn't.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I had no idea.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
And then even if I came out of it, you know,
you never know what you're gonna get when you come
out of something that that taxing, that serious, and all
the ramifications down the line of what you're going to
be like whenever it's all said and done. But I
woke up and I was able to move my right toe.
(05:47):
Three days later I moved the left.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
So that's kind of the glimmer of hope. Yeah, right, yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Talk about some weird milestones, you know, like holding a
toothbrush and brushing my own teeth.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Was it was a major victory. Wow, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Wow, yeah, so you by myself, you've come along in
less than a year, then, I mean, because yeah, so
all that kind of happened that first night, and then
it's recovery after all of that, right, right, I went.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
I went to a memorial and spent a little over
three weeks there, I believe, in and out of icy Us.
I checked out a planet Earth there for a while.
I went through some delirium I mentioned earlier. I was
also a pretty bad alcoholic, and uh so, not only
did I have all this thing going on with that,
(06:39):
and then my body's probably got the withdrawals, right, We'll
never know, But I had imaginary friends, you name it.
I would I would come back to Earth for a
little while.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Maybe some of that helped you get through some of.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
This, That's what I believe. You know.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
My mind kept busy, and then, by the grace of God,
I was able to get admitted to Craig Hospital in Denver.
It took took a little bit of effort. There's a
lot of people who stepped up. I was actually rejected
for my first application by the insurance company. They said
I would get just as well anywhere which the standard
(07:17):
of care for uh at the second tier down is way.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I mean the gap is a really gap between one
and two.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah. Yeah, it's it's not even like varsity JV. It's
it's like.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Something.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Then and they they went to bat for me, my
little brother, my boss Mike, Steve Shirley Benefits brokers, those guys,
you know, really held the insurance accountable for the language
and our policy. And Craig stepped up to they have
a whole team of people that help with that. And uh,
(07:54):
I was admitted to Craig and started to rehab. Journey
Man that you.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Were in a wheelchair when you admitted to Craig, is
I was?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I was completely wheelchair bounding. I started in a power chair.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
And they I couldn't even get from the bed to
the wheelchair. I was airlifted by a Warrior lift into
the wheelchair. And then that I could move around with
my Yeah, and I was. They were still they were
still a little worried about my mental state. I had
someone who went with me everywhere. Uh huh, and like
(08:28):
just like like a minder, you know, just hanging out
my message.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I'm like, I'm okay, I'm not gonna leave I'm not gonna.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I've been worried about your mental state for years, but
I had nothing to do with this.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
You're not alone with that man, that's the truth.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
But through time and time and time, you got a
little more, a little more, a little more correct.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Every every day I was.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I've been working out fast with Paul Andrata. He had
me do eighteen inch one legged box stands about a
week ago and I was almost crying, uh in the
gym because I have a picture from March where they
have me tied to an apparatus on the Basically the
(09:11):
ceiling is called a vectra, and I to make sure
I didn't fall down, right, so you can they can
do a little more aggressive physical therapy because you're not
going to fall down.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
So you're like walking.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
You know, like I'm repelling or something. But to the
vest it's the whole thing. And to lift my one
leg up six inches to touch the top of a
little orange cone, right, That's where I was at in March, right,
and then that was I mean, the even you know,
being getting out of the chair was unbelievable. And you know,
(09:49):
the first time I was able to leave the hospital
with my wife to go somewhere, and we had to
we had to make sure I could get into the car.
They call them transfers. You transfer to the bed, you
trans This's just kind of one blanket term. But I
had to have practice right with the and then they
was signed off. Okay, he can get from the wheelchair
(10:10):
into his seat. Type of a situation.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
You know.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
It was wow, yeah, stuff. You never in your wildest
dreams ever thought you'd have to.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Do complete helplessness, for you can't do anything on your own,
I mean absolutely nothing.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I had my.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Care team showered me, brushed my teeth, did my hair,
but dressed me.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
In February, after the accident, I spent fifteen minutes attempting
to put on a sock while my occupational therapist watched,
maybe giving a little tip here there, right, But at
first I had to get figure out how I was
gonna get my body where I could reach my foot right.
(10:57):
And that was actually, when you're not flexible anymore, you
don't you yeah, exactly. And then once I got through
that hurd'll figure out how to actually, with limited hand function, uh,
put the sock on and very little arm strength, and
I'm all I could think about was look, Hayley, there's
(11:18):
not a planet where my wife hasn't stepped in at
this point to.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Help me get the sock on.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
But she just sat there and washed, and I was like, okay,
I'm not doing the other one.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
If we have to end early, I don't care. I
got it on, you know, So you proved that you
could do that.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Oh yeah, they actually the seamstresses it. Craig put hooks
on my other socks because I could grab them and
hook the hooks and then I could.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Like a cowboy, whip my sock on.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I was like, it's a ten minute process to about
one one. It was unbelievable, you know, But yeah, shower,
they had it so the whole team.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
You know, I couldn't eat either.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I couldn't.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I'm I'd still have a hard time with if like
the meats a little tough.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I'm probably gonna have my wife for you. Yeah, and everyone,
you know you're so ashamed like about your pride, I guess.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
And you're the kind of guy I didn't want anybody
to do anything for it.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Well, I've been a fairly independent entirely, you know, we
all have. But it to me, I learned a lot
about uh, you know, I was humbled and it's okay
to ask for help. But they would, Yeah, they would
feed me and dress me and then out the door. Man,
those women were unbelievable. And and my friend Taylor is
(12:41):
a man nurse and he's gonna come down to my
race and every night, you know, put all I'd put
on splints to keep my arm straight and my hands
straight because I didn't have the muscle strength to do.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
It on my own.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
So everything's kind of contract contracting or whatever. So if
we fast forward a little bit, now you're able to walk,
and you're able to do.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
I started walking, and I've never been a runner in
my life, but you know, they told me I wasn't
really going to walk very good.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
So I wanted to walk, and I thought, well, what's
the next thing.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
It's running, And so I brought it up to the
physical therapist and the and the head spinal guy that
you know each guy. I had a main spinal doctor
that he ran a team of other doctors that helped
me with all the other things. But I was like,
what about, Hey, I think I could jog run. I
(13:35):
think I'll be able to And he's like, oh, no,
maybe one day under you'll be able to and you'll
go to a sports medicine guy and and I was like,
well what if what can we just try? And he's like, well,
you got to go see your neurosurgeon. So I had
to make an appointment with doctor Singh and uh. He
looked at the x rays, looked at me, and I mean, obviously,
(13:57):
you know it's America. Man, we could I could go run,
but I wanted to take advantage of these first class
facilities that my insurance was paying for and that they wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Help me run without the sign offs.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Anyway, he says, that was pretty pretty cool to meet him,
because I don't really remember meeting him, right, I was.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I had broken my neck at that time, so I
got to thank him in person.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
I think maybe your neurosurgeon is about as hard to
get a hold of as maybe like the President layers
to get to this guy, right, I was like, just
just trying to tell him thank you.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
That's all I want to do.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
But anyway, and he told me, he goes, I'm going
to tell my family about you. And I thought, man,
that I've hung on to that compliment like you wouldn't
believe man, and so what then we started running and
then you know, you want to stay motivated. So well,
I'm going to run a five k and then I thought, well,
(14:59):
I put on some chair already.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Events.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
You know, it's not my first it's my first race,
but not my first road.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Well, shoot, I'll just start one, you know.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
And the accessibility disability community, I mean, America is number one,
and we still have a really long way to go,
right and I saw I wanted to do something maybe,
you know, get the whole community together, you know. So
the slogan for my race is to break your neck,
walk runner, roll for all abilities and disabilities. I want
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everybody to come. There's no buried entry, there's no fee.
It's going to be at the College at the THUNDERBOWLT
And you know, I was so fortunate through that whole process,
just with you know, the puble being Pueblo and you
reach Todd Kelly. I reached out to him and we
looked at you know, a date, and he said, well,
(15:52):
what we could probably help you with that?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
You know, I said, okay, cool.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
I met with the a D and the track coach
and uh Polinsky and Matt Morris and said yeah, well
we're on board.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Let's let's do this. So these things started coming together.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
And I'm like, oh my god, I I've got to
really run five five kids.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Now I got to do this. Well, man, I can't.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
I've been talking about it. So that's been it's just
been fun, you know.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
And and when people I send my times off to
some of the because every time I go run and
I try to run three miles because I don't want
to be scared of the.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Distance, right right, conditioning. Yeah, And I.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Send it off to my doctors or some of my
physical therapists I became pretty good friends with, and they're
just like, Okay, that's not you, right, I swear, I promise,
I'll know I'm running. I'm actually running, and you know,
God's so good, and I know I get to be
a dad and pick up my kids.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yeah. So this walk run roll, what's the date and everything?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
September eight? The host sites the thunder Bowl.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
It isn't actually over the road race, so you know,
you leave the the university, they'll close down some lanes
and well you'll leave the leave the Thunderbowl, go down,
go up to Wolf Village, make a right the bond
for bridge down to the enclave, walking stick back around
by Massari drops back into the Thunderbowl.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Wow. So it starts at the Thunderbowl, and.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Then we'll have some music, there'll be some booths giveaways.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
But really what you're doing is you're drawing awareness to
what's happened and uh, maybe some other people going through
some of the same stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
There is I I said, we all have scars, man,
everyone's and that's one thing that kind of brought awareness.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
You know, everyone says, you know, you never know what
someone's going through.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
All right, Oh no exactly.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
But it never really rang that true to me. You know,
type a bully.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Well, I know, and you get busy, and you know,
you get kind of centered. I end up the same
way a lot of times. You get self centered on
stuff and you kind of don't think of other things
and other people sometimes and.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
They you know, so everybody, you know, if there's a
six minute mile are out there that wants to show
up or someone who wants.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
To you know, like me, a six hour you know.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Yeah, and anybody's welcome, and I like to keep it going.
I'm gonna raise money. I'm the only one doing it.
So there's really no expenses.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I'm gonna start a nursing scholarship at the Issue Publo
and I'm gonna name it the row will Sing Scholarship
after the neurosurgeon my surgery. And it's just the nurses
are on the front lines. They they're they're fighting the
fight every day. And I thought there's a way I
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could honor, you know kind of. And then the other
the other half the money I want to give back
to Craig her spinal port injury research and rehabilitation.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
So you're taking donations and things like that.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Got a website.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Uh, it's free to do the race, but if you
want to donate, the website is if you google break
your neck five k Pueblo or whatever it shows up.
It's on runner sign up dot com.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Okay, but I will share.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I want to share one story with you real quick.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
I'd just gotten home and at that time I was
really walking slow. And it's like May and a friend
of mine in town text me. I said, He says,
I hear you're walking around town. Victory is near. It's
out of the blue, right, It's like, man, that's cool, man.
(19:33):
And that weekend in the morning, Uh, my daughter woke
up and I went to get her and she wrapped
her arms around my neck and uh carried her into
the kitchen and I realized what I had done. She's
forty pounds, she's right going on five, and I'm standing
there and I'm holding my.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Little girl, and I'm just like, oh my god, this
is unbelieving. This is so awesome. Yeah, I send him
a picture back.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
I man, I've already won. Now it's just time to
run up the score, right And uh, this guy must
be a I mean, he must be a motivator, I'll
tell you, he says back immediately, because.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
But they knew there was a game, you know, show.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
No mercy and I'm gonna go run over there, right
through that wall right now, you know what I mean. Like,
but they did know there was a game, and I'm
not going to show any mercy to this accident, right
and I am going to get it.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
So you're not done.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Every day, you know, and every day we we fight
harder for one step, one inch, whatever it is, whatever
that is for you.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
You know, everybody has, you know.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
With the with the God and good intentions, you can
get a lot of stuff done.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
You know, absolutely so that's kind of my story. Man.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
It's been crazy.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
And you want to talk about the people in Pueblo
supported me and and circle my family, amazing my work.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Same thing.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
You know, Southwest Motors Is is an incredible organization.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Uh in the way they rallied around.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
My and myself and the Thescelin and the Morland families.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
And uh.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Then you know, I bet I went one day without
someone coming to see me at the hospital, you know,
and and the texts and the calls never stopped, the letters. Ah,
you know, in some days it's hard to get out
of bed.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
I was able to every day because of all the
love and support that was shown.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
And now I just want to I want.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
To give back back a little bit as much.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
As I can. Your dad be a husband and give back.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Sure. Sure, Well what a what a fantastic story because
it has a fantastic ending, But so's maybe some other
people that haven't had that fantastic ending yet. But you
give them hope.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Yeah, they we're not done yet.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yeah, you geting them hope.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
We're not done yet, man, And you can always get better. Uh,
even if like I said, whatever you're fighting, you know,
please don't take it to the extremes. I did to
learn what I've learned, Right, you don't have.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
To don't do it.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Don't do that.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Do you not recommend it for anyone? It was my journey.
It worked for me. But it's kind of like I
think it's a one and done thing.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Well, let me ask you a question. Did you take
that couch and that automan and throw it in the trash?
Is that like.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
We're gonna have a bond.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
I got nothing against the house of the room it
happened in, but that couch is gone.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
It's gone.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
I'm very vindictive feelings about that.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
I can see. I can see. Well, Kenny, wait, I know,
to be honest with you, I didn't think we'd be
able to do this. So I'm glad. I'm so glad
you came in here, and you come in here into
your own power. You walked in here, the whole thing.
It's uh, it's quite the testament. And hopefully you again,
like I said, encourage some people maybe are going through
the same kind of stuff. Yeah, I have a love going.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
To run with us, walk with us, roll with us.
You know what's it's it's a movement. Man, We're out
here trying to to just spread the message of piece
and hope. Yeah, Barky says, and love and and it
should be a good time.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
And thanks for having me absolutely being a friend.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
You have absolutely a long time, you know. So September
twenty eighth. What time in the morning, nine am registration?
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Ten am is the run?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Please register. I'm money, got buy t shirts, I gotta
get water. I would love to have you. If you
just show up, that's cool, You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
We are turning no one cheer leaders even.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Yeah, but if if you want a shirt, not just registered,
please there you go.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
It's free to register.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
If you need details, you can reach out to me
and I will link you on as well. But Kenny,
good seeing you man.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
God bless Nick, Thank you bro.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
There you go.
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