Again, it’s silly and simple to talk about golf when you’re comparing it to fourth degree burns, but it was my recovery process is so important to tell other people that there’s nothing as powerful as a made up mind. And when you’re in the middle, you know, a lot more about this than I do, but being in the middle of a grand mal seizure, you are out of control of what’s going on. Throughout this process, Jason’s wife was so dedicated and the love they have for each other really showed, but there was another person in his life that really represented the friendship and camaraderie between two police officers. Jason is the subject of the book, “Burning Shield” by Landon Napoleon, which we’ll talk about today. It was so powerful to me to hear my doctor, the guy who saved my life, say to me that he questioned his own reasoning behind doing it.

We learn the importance of chasing our dreams, but more importantly, overcoming our nightmares while touching and impacting lives all around us. A man who somehow survived an event that was unsurvivable and beyond the understanding of medical science.I know I’m going to go through a lot more in life and I’m appreciative for what I have gone through that. Having lived in Phoenix my entire life I remember seeing Jason on the news after the accident, and the way he carried himself after such a devastating event was an absolute inspiration. Jason is the subject of the book, Burning Shield:, which we’ll talk about today, as Jason tells us his story of why he’s the luckiest person alive. I loved this book, which is unique in the way it accurately portrays the process of being a trial lawyer outside the courtroom. And Marcus Engle had a similar story to yours in that when he was 19 years old was blindsided and T-boned and instantly went blind and had 50 surgeries just like you.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. His fight helped to make things safer for fellow officers when all previous attempts to do this had failed.Now retired from the Phoenix Police Department, he is now an inspirational speaker, and has established a scholarship to assist the families of officers who are injured on the job. He has undergone more than 50 surgeries just to have the ability to accomplish simple daily tasks we often take for granted. I, up until COVID hit, I was doing about 75 a year, all over the country from wow, for everything from organ and tissue organizations to law enforcement, hospitals, real estate, accounting firms, you name it. And so I answered up for long ways to go being out of my patrol zone lights and siren on time to get there as quick as I can. Interweaving narratives of human triumph, medical marvels, police procedure and high-stakes legal showdown, this “inspiring true story” (Kirkus Reviews) reveals a rare human being with an undeniable will to live.

It encompasses every theme and trope in literature, and will leave you filled with compassion and a new determination to do better in your life.And if you have toxic friends, people who don’t have your best interests and supports you that it’s okay to let them go and keep your inner circle close. I realized that at least for me, I was done being a student and ready to move on to that life of service. I had started out making a curving design similar to the large stencil in the first picture in this section.

Whether you are a doctor faced with giving a patient bad news, a business leader who wants to get the most out of his or her team members or someone who just wants to learn to communicate better this is the podcast for you. So I had two at the time I had a seven year old daughter and a son who turned three while I was in my coma.

Napoleon has written a book about an individual I can absolutely 'see', about life situations I can 'feel', about frustration and ultimately vindication (of some sorts) for a situation no one should have to experience.