Hi my name is Louis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

I got run over by a truck in a triathlon in 1986 on a biking portion of a race.

I broke six vertebrae in my spine and I was told that I'd never walk again.

So the typical surgical procedure for multiple compression fractures with cord impingement is this surgery called Harrington rod surgery.

And in my case, they were going to cut off the parts of my vertebrae from the base of my neck to the base of my spine.

And then they screw in these long stainless steel rods.

And when you screw those rods in into the vertebrate,

acts like a can lever, it lifts the spinal column off the cord.

But the prognosis was, I probably wouldn't walk again and that the

surgery was hopeful that it would give me some relief and I think if it was any

other patient besides me I probably would have recommended surgery but this was me

you sure and I just couldn't rush into it so I had

four opinions you know from four of the leading surgeons in Southern California and they

were adamant that I needed this surgery all four of them all four of them I

decided against the surgery and I thought, well listen I'm not going

anywhere, I'm not doing anything, I'm basically laying face down and I said I thought well there's

an intelligence that's giving us life that's keeping a heart beating and

digesting our food.

It really knows how to heal way better than me.

I thought, well, if it's an intelligence, it's a consciousness.

And consciousness is awareness and awareness is paying attention,

so it must be paying attention to me.

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