Then on November 24, 2015 I was severely traumatically injured in a random stranger shooting that should have killed me. For some reason I survived three “un-survivable” physical injuries, one of which has no statistics of survival, and two others having under 6% survival rate. Why I am alive today is beyond any explanation. And yet here I am. But living comes with a permanent price to pay. It is chronic pain in my upper left torso, neck and left arm. Burning, aching, just like being stuck with pins kind of pain non stop. But I choose to manage the pain rather than let it consume me. The second and often more difficult challenge is I basically paralyzed in both feet from the ankle down. Spinal nerve damage? Neuropathy? Probably both. Makes mobility interesting at times.