So for a full month you're paralyzed. Was it a slow roll from when you started to get feeling back until, like, how much time transpired between the accident and you were relatively back to normal or kind of where you are now?

So I would say within six weeks or so, I was able to just leave the hospital and the

care, and I don't have the exact dates like in my, you know, the dates in my head, but

it was a good five, six weeks.

I went to my mother's house.

She was living in Minnesota at the time. I was living in Des Moines still, but the doctor's like, you aren't driving. Because if you're getting another wreck, it's going to kill you. Everything's not like solidified. Your bones have to grow around, all these screws and plates and all this stuff. So I was at my mom's for maybe another month, three weeks to a month, and they x-rayed me

and they said, okay, everything's forming.

Great.

Take the trip back to Iowa, which is four hour trip from Minneapolis to Des Moines.

And then I continued my rehab.

It was a year before I could kind of return to work and I had no business going to work,

but I had no more time off.

I had burned, I had never taken a day off sick even, you know.

So I had all my leave, but when you're out for a year, it's not enough and people were

donating me time.

So that, just so that I understand the DEA was charging you vacation time for that?

Yeah, sick time.

Why?

Because so unlike the military with law and federal law enforcement, every two weeks you might get three hours of sick leave in your bank.

Was there not an exception made because it didn't happen on the job?

Yeah, it didn't happen on the job, so it's a very different thing.

If it had happened on the job, then I would be on a workers' compensation, but I wasn't

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