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post 1448420343 06-18-2016, 04:59 PM
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Good read
You'll make it brah
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Originally Posted By DeadlyStriker
Yea just looked him up. it is squatpresspull

If you scroll far back you'll see his meets that he did and some of his lifts, dieting, etc.
Thank you just followed him.
Originally Posted By DrunkPanda18
Damn, reading this thread really puts my problems in perspective.. Mirin the way you are handling it, though. I'm surprised you can still play video games well with only one hand, you must have been a video game master back when you had two hands.
Nope lol I sucked, I even played world of Warcraft with one hand man. Its crazy how you adapt to stuff that you want to do so bad
Originally Posted By daquietman
wait, you were 18?
I was 17 when it all happened, I am 26 now.
Originally Posted By NattyCory
Good read
You'll make it brah
Thank brah, appreciate it!
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no problem man keep up the good work, btw when are you getting a bionic arm fitted you can be like the Terminator and literally punch through walls/skulls etc

just sign up for a clinical trial with those med tech companies.....chit will be the latest technology and you get to keep it afterwards.....just have to go in and give feedback to them/tests etc
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Originally Posted By Flapjacko
Damn, and I can't even get a girlfriend.
girls are overrated brah (no homo)
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post 1448505433 06-19-2016, 08:26 AM
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****ing hell OP, at least you lived and this is all that matters. A very traumatising experience to fight through, but you did it.

Stay strong and good luck.
post 1448505483 06-19-2016, 08:26 AM
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God bless you OP, you're the true alpha that the misc is always trying to define.

I was in a similar accident around that time period, where somebody just pulled out in front of me, just like you described. I was fine physically, but sadly an old lady in the other car died. I spent the rest of my 20's depressed, drunk, divorced, and traumatized. They even falsely accused me and tried to prosecute me with an imprisonable offense, but the jury saw through it and gave a not guilty verdict. I couldn't imagine how tough it would be to lose a part of your body. In my case I feel like I lost a part of my soul, my personality, and just died inside and became a shell of my former self. I'm not sure I could endure what you did, but I guess when stuff like this happens you don't really have a choice.
post 1448505883 06-19-2016, 08:31 AM
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Riveting tale Op... you made me feel worthless. Good Job
post 1448505983 06-19-2016, 08:32 AM
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Meanwhile you have *******s here crying about balding and being short.

Incredible story OP, truly an inspiration.
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post 1448510663 06-19-2016, 09:19 AM
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Originally Posted By daquietman
no problem man keep up the good work, btw when are you getting a bionic arm fitted you can be like the Terminator and literally punch through walls/skulls etc

just sign up for a clinical trial with those med tech companies.....chit will be the latest technology and you get to keep it afterwards.....just have to go in and give feedback to them/tests etc
Haha man here's a picture of me 2 years ago when I was dieting and then I gained it all back because I was in a relationship and comfortable but you'll get a good laugh out of this! Don't mind the position of my prosthetic I swear its not in fap mode and I wasn't giving my self a stranger LOL
Originally Posted By abdus
****ing hell OP, at least you lived and this is all that matters. A very traumatising experience to fight through, but you did it.

Stay strong and good luck.
Thanks bud!
Originally Posted By LaoHu7
God bless you OP, you're the true alpha that the misc is always trying to define.

I was in a similar accident around that time period, where somebody just pulled out in front of me, just like you described. I was fine physically, but sadly an old lady in the other car died. I spent the rest of my 20's depressed, drunk, divorced, and traumatized. They even falsely accused me and tried to prosecute me with an imprisonable offense, but the jury saw through it and gave a not guilty verdict. I couldn't imagine how tough it would be to lose a part of your body. In my case I feel like I lost a part of my soul, my personality, and just died inside and became a shell of my former self. I'm not sure I could endure what you did, but I guess when stuff like this happens you don't really have a choice.
Aww man I would not know what to do in your case.. Id have that on my conscience for life, but I hope you pulled through that brother, and that's wrong of them to try to accuse you of that when it was not even your fault and you already got to deal with someone dying, talk about a emotional struggle brother.
Originally Posted By MQ9Reap
Riveting tale Op... you made me feel worthless. Good Job
Don't feel worthless we all have battles in different forms
Originally Posted By Comstarr
Meanwhile you have *******s here crying about balding and being short.

Incredible story OP, truly an inspiration.
Lol thanks brother
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post 1448515293 06-19-2016, 10:01 AM
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****ing inspirational as fuk bro. Mirin your courage and strength. True alpha.
post 1448520173 06-19-2016, 10:43 AM
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Originally Posted By MaxxSteele
****ing inspirational as fuk bro. Mirin your courage and strength. True alpha.
Thanks brother, glad I got a lot of support on here!
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post 1448521053 06-19-2016, 10:52 AM
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Good read
Good inspiration
one of the most motivating and inspirational stories i have read in a while.
post 1448522253 06-19-2016, 11:02 AM
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repped
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post 1448534033 06-19-2016, 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted By sivivatu
Good read
Good inspiration
one of the most motivating and inspirational stories i have read in a while.
Originally Posted By JohnTS1
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Thanks homies!
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post 1448543803 06-19-2016, 01:50 PM
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Looks like you were in good shape before. Don't let yourself become comfortable. Being fit should be about feeling good and having confidence in yourself. You will feel 10x better health wise when you get back in shape. You've done it before, so you have the advantage as you know it can be done!
post 1448546633 06-19-2016, 02:15 PM
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you can do it OP, you survived that you can lose the weight you want!
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post 1448547613 06-19-2016, 02:22 PM
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wow. puts things in perspective. thanks for sharing m8.
Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans for it. Throughout my lifetime, I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost not enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at my door.

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post 1448550433 06-19-2016, 02:45 PM
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Originally Posted By TwoHumpChump
Looks like you were in good shape before. Don't let yourself become comfortable. Being fit should be about feeling good and having confidence in yourself. You will feel 10x better health wise when you get back in shape. You've done it before, so you have the advantage as you know it can be done!
Originally Posted By rocketfish
you can do it OP, you survived that you can lose the weight you want!
Originally Posted By EdgarAllanBro
wow. puts things in perspective. thanks for sharing m8.
Thanks for the motivations guys!
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post 1448583923 06-19-2016, 06:35 PM
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Reps for honesty and still driving stick.

Crazy how life can change so much in an instant.

Always blows my mind how evil and hateful school kids can be. Had this kid in my high school that was socially awkward and everyone treated him like garbage. I was a jerk to him at first too then the Columbine shootings happened and it made me reflect on myself and change my ways. But it must of been torture for that kid. You don't really see that kind of behavior around adults. I guess its because teenagers are just so insecure.
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post 1448584183 06-19-2016, 06:37 PM
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Thanks for sharing this insane story!
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Your story reminds me of this guy a little bit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_Mitchell

W Mitchell

Mitchell was burned over 65% of his body on July 19, 1971 when a laundry truck turned in front of the motorcycle he was riding in San Francisco. His face and hands were badly scarred and his fingers were badly burned and he lost most of each of his ten fingers. He had just completed his first solo aircraft flight. He later won a $500,000 settlement in a lawsuit against Honda Inc. because the gas cap on his Honda CB750 was deemed faulty for having fallen off during the accident.

On November 11, 1975 he crashed on take off in a small aircraft he was piloting due to ice on the wings and injured his spinal cord, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down, but his other passengers escaped injury. The NTSB investigation indicated that the accident was due to his failure to detect the thin layer of ice on the wings during his pre-flight inspection.


Despite all that the guy ended up:

- Becoming a millionaire
- Motivational speaker
- Mayor of Crested Butte Colorado
- Entreprenuer
- Author
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post 1448586613 06-19-2016, 06:50 PM
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Originally Posted By EmmaW4tson
Did you flip your avatar pic OP? Cuz its your right arm thats gone a walkin and I see you holding up a phone with your left.

Pretty big thing to be missing a different arm from what you describe :O
Do you even understand how a mirror works?
Don't put that on me Ricky Bobby, don't you ever put that on me.
post 1448589363 06-19-2016, 07:02 PM
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Originally Posted By faxanadu
Reps for honesty and still driving stick.

Crazy how life can change so much in an instant.

Always blows my mind how evil and hateful school kids can be. Had this kid in my high school that was socially awkward and everyone treated him like garbage. I was a jerk to him at first too then the Columbine shootings happened and it made me reflect on myself and change my ways. But it must of been torture for that kid. You don't really see that kind of behavior around adults. I guess its because teenagers are just so insecure.
Originally Posted By faxanadu
Your story reminds me of this guy a little bit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_Mitchell

W Mitchell

Mitchell was burned over 65% of his body on July 19, 1971 when a laundry truck turned in front of the motorcycle he was riding in San Francisco. His face and hands were badly scarred and his fingers were badly burned and he lost most of each of his ten fingers. He had just completed his first solo aircraft flight. He later won a $500,000 settlement in a lawsuit against Honda Inc. because the gas cap on his Honda CB750 was deemed faulty for having fallen off during the accident.

On November 11, 1975 he crashed on take off in a small aircraft he was piloting due to ice on the wings and injured his spinal cord, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down, but his other passengers escaped injury. The NTSB investigation indicated that the accident was due to his failure to detect the thin layer of ice on the wings during his pre-flight inspection.


Despite all that the guy ended up:

- Becoming a millionaire
- Motivational speaker
- Mayor of Crested Butte Colorado
- Entreprenuer
- Author
I love driving a manual I thought I was doomed but I had to learn how to drive with just one arm and shifting but its easy to do once you get use to it I thought they would have restricted me from driving one. And that's crazy about W. Mitchell, seems like he went through a lot and now is paralyzed? i'd be devastated, just proves there's others out there who have it worse than us. And those high school kids do it to just be class clowns and *******s.. I remember going to a party one night and some dude was laughing at me about having one arm and my friend just came out of no where and haymaker'd him.
Originally Posted By lightsarefallin
Thanks for sharing this insane story!
No problem man!
Originally Posted By Bando
Do you even understand how a mirror works?
I didn't know if he/she was trolling or not but thanks for defending me!
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crazy story. much love and respect to you bruh
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Damn bro, thats rough AF. Glad to hear you made it out alive tho, srs. Some times people are scum, sounds like you dgaf about that tho, good for you dude.
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Originally Posted By getbuckets
crazy story. much love and respect to you bruh
Thanks bruh, I appreciate that!
Originally Posted By weightsb4dates
Damn bro, thats rough AF. Glad to hear you made it out alive tho, srs. Some times people are scum, sounds like you dgaf about that tho, good for you dude.
Yeah I still got a couple people who try to throw shade but not to my face they usually do it over social media or behind my back, but I just dgaf it's not stopping me from my ambitions
Originally Posted By howimliving
True story!
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Wow, man... That's harsh. It sucks that it happened to you. At the same time though, it's great that you survived, seem to have recovered well, and you're still doing things you like and enjoying life!

It's really interesting to me that people who lose an arm or a leg still "feel" the presence of it even though it's gone... mainly because I have the opposite experience, an arm attached to my body that I have no sensation in, only the sense of having some weight hanging off my shoulder. If you don't mind my asking a kind of a weird question, do you feel like your phantom arm moves along with your good one when you react to something out of instinct, like if you were going to hold your arm out for balance, or put your hand out to catch a small object that someone tossed to you?

By the way if you're still trying to figure out how to do some of the exercises, I'd be happy to offer tips if you're coming across a problem that I've solved already
Through sustained dedication to improvement will come perfection.
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damn brah... here we have people wanting to kill themselves over receding hairlines and puffy nipples, yet here you are fighting the good fight down an arm. keep hustlin cuzzz
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Originally Posted By rbtsmith410
This is going to be a little embarrassing to post.. but here goes nothing, maybe ill be made fun of, maybe i'll inspire people, I don't know where this will go but I've had a few people in the misc section ask me to share my story so here it goes.

Back on December 4th 2007 I was coming home from a girlfriends house, I was just cruising home. I proceeded to go down this hill, it was dark at this time because it was winter and the time was around 7:40pm. it was a dark back road with no lights what so ever. A car pulled out off a side street cutting me off because they did not see my headlights. I swerved to miss him then swerved back lost control of my car then flipped it 4-5 times while a 2x6 board impaled pretty much through my neck and out my back going through the car seat.

I don't remember any of this happening. The car pulled over and waived another car down to call 911 because he did not have a cell phone. Firefighters, Ambulance and Police arrived to the scene. They were trying to figure out how to get me out of the car with the piece of wood in me. I had to get medevac to Maryland Shock Trauma. I had well over 10 surgeries, I was in a coma and on life support. I had to get my left arm amputated to save my life because of an infection from the wood. They did not know if I was going to live or not. After Christmas I was off life support. I don't remember anything that happened I remember waking up to a voice and I tried to move my left arm but I couldn't I asked what's wrong with my left arm, they told me I did not have it anymore. I passed back out.

I was fighting a lot of fevers and infections, I had bags of ice on me to keep me cool. I finally woke-up to my mom being there and I asked her what happened and she told me.. I broke down crying. I fought long and hard through all of that. I had stitches all up and down my chest where they cracked my chest open and going to where my left arm use to be. I had a feeding tube in my nose, I could not have any liquids to drink, all I could do is chew ice chips and cotton swab of water. I could not stand up or walk at all either I was so weak. I was 270lbs going in and coming out I was at 196lbs. I finally started to progress and left ICU to go to another part of the hospital. I left the Hospital Jan 12th of 2008 and went to a rehabilitation center where I spent 10 days there trying to get my strength back. January 22nd I went home.

It was a tough process getting back to my old life.. I was weak, I had a wound vac on me and had to get dressings from my wounds cleaned out. It was a hell of a time and also depressing. I lost a part of me and thought what am I going to do now, everyone is going to think I'm different and I will get constantly stared at. I returned back to school and that's exactly what happened. Because of my accident I failed 12th grade and had to retake it. I cut myself off from the social world because I was depressed about everything, people making fun of me, some girl came up to my girlfriend at the time and said that's your boyfriend? and started laughing at me.

I finally regained some confidence in myself as months went by and started to adapt to life with one arm. I finally didn't care what people said about me I just wanted to live life, and I did. I went back to driving a 5 speed car, hung out with friends, did everything I did before just with one arm.

Now I am here, Married to a different girl with two beautiful daughters, living life, working for a fortune 50 company, trying to lose weight to live a healthy lifestyle. I hope you guys and gals enjoyed my story.. below I will post a picture of the accident and the documentary video Shock Trauma did of my accident. WARNING it might be very emotional for some so try not to tear up


Inspiring story, will rep when able.

Stay strong and keep your head up.
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