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Andrew Garrison: September 25th, 2008, I was in a motorcycle accident and I just went down
in traffic, and: head trauma, six broken ribs, bruised lung. I tore out my right shoulder
and two days later they had to amputate my left foot.
(Text on screen): American Council on Exercise PROfiles
Andrew Garrison, personal trailer, Albuquerque, NM
Andrew Garrison: I was home for four months healing and I wish I could say it was rough,
but it gave me time to be grateful that I'm alive.
In February of 2009, I went to get fitted and get a mold for my prosthetic, so my prosthetist's
office was in a children's hospital, and I see all these kids, it's a children's hospital,
and these kids were quadriplegic; they were getting served lunch through a straw.
To see that gray cloud over these families and over these precious little children that
haven't even had a chance to live, it reframed what my accident meant for me.
Now, I connect with people. The human interaction piece is so easy for me now, because I'm just
a one-footed fitness guy, as crippled as all of us are emotionally and spiritually and
physically.
If my transaction with you is: "You pay me, we train, when you have no more money, then
you're gone," then that's pretty empty.
But my transaction is: "Good for me, good for you, good for both of us." And that's
what ACE professionals do.
(Text on screen): ACE: American Council on Exercise