This really resonated with me after 25 years of disability and multiple surgeries. In the last year Ive had close to 20 hospital admissions. Most of those I now find out were due to the wrong medication causing fluid to build up in my lungs. The stage 3 kidney failure Ive now been told Ive had for 10 years and has been stable, this also due to scaring from the medications. Still at the gym every day, sometimes just on the bike to keep the knee and lungs going like the last few months. Other times for 2 hours straight of weight work, but still there none the less.

Injury list highlights:


L4 to S1 back injury 2 operations


2003 first bilateral lung transplant


2014 second bilateral lung transplant


throat cancer, shoulder cancer


severed quad tendon


sternum broken 3 times


scar tissue right groin 90 litre blood transfusion


left shoulder severe arthritis

tore the tendon off my right bicep

stage 3 kidney failure

“If you cant give a man something to love, give him something to hope for, if you cant give him something to hope for, give him something to do.”