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G.R.I.N.D.

 Where do I begin. My wife, Kathy, suggested I consider this "Shawn ver. 2.0" and I think she's probably got the right attitude toward it. Since I'm the one in recovery, I'll defer to her more clarified view of the situation. I'll take what works and run with it, the rest, we will work around. February 2015 Back in 2015, while helping install security cameras, I stepped harmlessly from one secured ladder, to one that was not and within seconds, I dropped 10 feet and landed on a vertical sheet of plywood and my right hip landed very hard on a small pile of broken concrete. I felt a pop and of course, the entirety of the impact took my breath away. I knew immediately I had made the dumbest mistake in my life. One that my doctor had warned me about but he was always wrong because that only happened to dumb people who were doing dumb things and I'd seen the Youtube videos to prove it... and you and I both know, now, I was completely wrong. I could not breathe ...