James Shepherd – How did you develop an understanding of the injury?

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I think the understanding of my injury came over time. The delivery of the message early on was, I guess, so extreme to in my mind from what I’d planned my life to be that I, in my head, went “no way, there is no way this is real and it’s going... Show More

I think the understanding of my injury came over time. The delivery of the message early on was, I guess, so extreme to in my mind from what I’d planned my life to be that I, in my head, went “no way, there is no way this is real and it’s going to get back to where it was.”

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James Shepherd – How did you develop an understanding of the injury?
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I think the understanding of my injury came over time. The delivery of the message early on was, I guess, so extreme to in my mind from what I’d planned my life to be that I, in my head, went “no way, there is no way this is real and it’s going to get back to where it was.”

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