Olstoney,
Too bad we don't live near each other.
We could team build them!
I'm one of the lucky ones...3 level fusion, titanium plate, paralysis all that good stuff but it all came back.
I've always been so lucky in my life.
If I was to ever write a book I would have used a title Jimmy Doolittle beat me to..."I could never be so lucky again"!
But, when the archaeologists dig me up in a thousand years and see all the plates, mended and broken bones, knocked out teeth, etc. they're going to say: "What the heck happened to this guy"?!?!?!?
Ah...the thrills and spills of youth!
JLK