Shepherd Center

I finally came to.

I got accepted into Shepherd Center in Atlanta, and I don't know if anybody, everybody knows or heard of Shepherd Center.

It's a hospital, but I call it a house of miracles, 'cause I came there unconscious, and six months later, I was left there, walking with assistance of a walker, cane.

Um, they'd cut my Achilles and re-lengthened them.

But, you know, um, witnesses said I was screaming in the car.

But a- again, it's, it's our bodies protecting ourselves so we don't have to remember those hideous moments.

Now, you, you went to the House of Miracles, what you call it, the Shepherd Center in Atlanta.

Yes, sir.

You know, I do a lot of work with people who have access limitations, mobility challenges.

In particular, I'm a partner with the Shepherd Center, which is a world-renowned neuro rehabilitative hospital for people with brain injury or spinal cord injury.

And I would say access is the number one thing I would like to see change.

There are so many places where a simple curb cut or a short paved path would provide access to a whole other group of people.

So I would like to see better access in birding for everyone.

Do you have like a suggestion of where someone might find resources to learn more about that? Does the organization you work with have like a public facing side with that information?

Not Shepherd Center, no.

But there is an organization called Access Birding.

Are we doing everything that we can for his nutrition? And the dietician said, I know, that's really upsetting me.

I'm very competitive and I can't figure out What's going on there? Are we even trying different things? And she said, I'm going to call the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, which is a world-class spine center, and see what advice they may have.

And so the next morning at the huddle, they were able to debrief me.

She held up a bag of nutrition that was like 3,500 calories, 400 grams of protein.

They had overnighted it from the Shepherd Center.

They were going to try to get Nate's nutrition up to get his tissue healing better.

And inputs and outputs and all of that can be very complicated, but he had lost a ton of weight.

And when you were injured, where did you do your rehab, and what was that experience like for you?

Yeah, so I did my rehab at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta.

Um, so yeah, number one in the world, you gotta say yes to that, so.

I, I did not know that, Monica.

Mike and I both went to Shepherd Center.

Uh-

You did?

We're going through loss.