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Gribblepox23 karma

Warning: Terrible grammar and overall sentence formatting, I'm tired as hell.

About 11 years ago, my father worked on service towers, and was fixing something on a ~30ft tower on top of a private building. When he got to the top, the safety cables that apparently weren't A. Installed correctly or B. Weren't doing their damn job, snapped and he fell with the tower. He landed on his back and shattered C2-C5 and was told that he would never be able to walk again. Within a couple years, my old man was able to walk and even work again. About 6 years ago, he was riding his motorcycle with a passenger who had been drinking. It was during the fall and it was raining so the roads were covered with wet leaves, and when he was taking her home, she dozed off when they were going around a corner and hit a patch of wet leaves and started to fall, he then throttled up and tried to stand the bike back up but the passenger did what any normal drunk person that abruptly woken up and jumped, which caused them to fall. My dad, being the quick thinking, protect everyone else, kind of guy that he is held on to the bike so it wouldn't end up hurting the lady. The bike ended up landing on top of him and he shattered T6-T11 and ended up getting 2 18" rods in his back for about 4 or 5 years. He's still walking and working like a fuckin' boss.

EDIT: I forgot to ask a question and it sounded like I was trying to one up OP. Didn't mean for that. Question: How did your recovery effect not only yourself but the people around you?

Gribblepox14 karma

Aye, my father was able to get a $20,000 settlement from the company that the tower was on. After he got that though, my mother started cheating on him and eventually left him. She bullshitted a lot of stuff and was able to win the kids, most of the money from the settlement, and the house. He was already an alcoholic before he broke his back the first time but it got increasingly worse. He's now 4 years sober and still the toughest living man that I'm aware of.

Gribblepox9 karma

Not only is he sober, but he's running marathons. Which absolutely amazes me.

Gribblepox7 karma

1.4 million people read this subreddit. Say only 100,000 of those readers are on this thread. Why doesn't each person donate a dollar? Over shoot the price target by 50k, then Matt can take us all out to dinner.

Gribblepox1 karma

wc lvls?