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Life is. SIMPLY • MAGNIFICENT
The beginning
It started on the night of October 14, 2011. I had taken a nap and was ready to join my brother and dad for a weekend of hunting. Unfortunately, that weekend would be the start of a different kind of journey, a very long and arduous one. I had just made it through Montana and was on the Lolo pass along the river, which was on my left when it happened. I was driving along when suddenly a deer jumped in front of me. I swerved left. Bad idea, the river was there, so I turned right quickly and over corrected accidently. The car flipped on it’s side and slid into the hillside. When it did my head slammed into the seat and then rebounded into the steering wheel.
This is when I lost consciousness.
I’ve been told that several hours passed before a truck driver discovered my car, who unhitched his load to hurry to an emergency phone line. Since it was foggy they couldn’t send an airplane or helicopter and I had to wait several hours for an ambulance out of Missoula, Montana. I hung upside down by the seatbelt for hours with a broken Sternum, both clavicles, six ribs, two vertebrae, and a collapsed lung. I imagine most of the readers are going, “that’s quite a bit of broken bones, how is he not dead?” Honestly I’m thinking the same thing as I write this. I have a very deep faith so I hope you’ll understand my belief that God must have saved me.
How I started Asea
My physical therapist’s assistant, Shawn Burke who’s also a personal trainer and ASEA athlete, invited me to a meeting for something called ASEA. I didn’t know what it was at the time but I and my chemical engineer dad soon learned how Asea boosts our own natural redox signaling. My dad being a chemical engineer and me being a pre-med student, understood the chemistry behind the product. As I listened about the chemistry, I started to point at a bottle and whisper to my dad that I needed it. After the meeting, we went up and asked about getting on the product. I was disappointed at first to find out that we had to order and wait for it. That disappointment soon changed though as they figured out how to get me some that night, I started the product that night, and I’ve been on it ever since
Life changing-
As I said, I got the product that night and started it. I notced that I felt better after the first two weeks but was skeptical if it was because of ASEA. As you can see, I was wheelchair bound at the time when I got on the product. After around 4-5 weeks, I was able to start walking with the use of a walker. I progressed to forearm crutches after a couple months and then to a single forearm crutch a few weeks later. After a few weeks with that, I went to a single point cane I relied heavily on the cane for several weeks but after that, I began to rely less and less on it. I used the cane sparingly for only about a month before I was able to walk on my own. For the next year, I carried a walking stick just in case but hardly ever had to use it, After a year, I felt safe enough to put the walking stick away.
Since that time, I’ve been walking independently thanks to ASEA.
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