I figure it's a positive thing when someone refuses to give in to the odds and survives. If I listened to the docs and believed what they said about phantom pains, I'd have been condemned to a chair many years ago. If I'd heeded their advice, I wouldn't have got to see almost all of North America through a windshield. If I'd surrendered to the face that haunted me, I'd have never experienced the pride of owning my own company. Sure there have been negatives - like losing it all to Free Trade, GST and divorce, a losing battle with a fire hose, a bust for using a painkiller the law doesn't like, a war with Ontario for some fair treatment. The positives have got smaller. They're still positives. My sights are set lower. Instead of WCB, I have to survive on ODSP. So what? I still appreciate the win. Even after being Code Blue at Memorial ... and meds whose side effects pretty much guarantee a single life ... I'm still alive. Hey, my kids and grandkids like me and so what if I smell!