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Not to, that was a loaded question. It's okay. We're gonna leave this in because it's just the reality of the situation. This is what happens. This is what happens. We are constantly working. But not to ask you a loaded question but you are, you're happy to be back. Glad to get back into a regular routine of work and whatnot. What was J.R. doing throughout this whole time? He was being lazy. Was he? He was being lazy. Right by your side? Yeah well sometimes right by my side. So we use very high drive dogs and so sometimes the high drive dogs make great work dogs. But not so much great house beds because they're high drive. They always want something to do. So there were times he was being lazy and then there were times he was being very annoying. Because he wanted to go back to work. It's like a best of the both worlds. You know I feel like it hypes you up a bit more. Make sure you kind of maybe aggravating you want to get back to work even quicker. Yeah but you I feel you were back pretty quick this happened. So for those of you that don't know what happened do you want to just break it down? So on June 8th we had a domestic violence call down in the 7th Springs area and during that call we were trying to arrest the suspect and he ended up ambushing us inside the house and I was shot with a AK-47 in my leg. Ended up doing some damage and completely severing my femoral artery and vein so they had to go in and harvest a vein from one of my legs to repair the artery. I ended up with some blood clots in my leg so they had to they had to take those out. Spent a few days in ICU and then physical therapy from that on out. Just working at it so I can get back to work. And how so you said June 8th today is August 22nd about two and a half months? Roughly I actually came back to work on the 12th of August. Was it incredible? Which part? Coming back to work. Yes. Don't appreciate that. So just to I mean if you guys I will link below the press conference if you want to watch that in an entirety it's absolutely incredible that you are back at work that you you're walking. Walking, running, climbing, jumping, fences. Still going on calls, still going on tracks. All of it. Exactly. You still are just as capable as you were beforehand. Didn't stop you. Did you would you approach the situation any differently? Of course not. I still had and to this time I've been on calls where I've walked through the doors and been inside and just handled business like I did before June 8th. Yeah this is what you signed up to do and you still love it. I still love it. I still love it. I'm trying to think what else. You know what watching the BWC video you guys have seen a shortened version of it you have not seen the full graphic nature of the actual BWC but there's a tourniquet that is used in that video and recently we have started putting in the high schools and middle schools stop the bleed kids which are literally meant for situations like this. It just talks it goes to show the importance of training those that are younger because you God forbid something happens but they have the knowledge to prep themselves and our deputies were incredible in that video the neighbor Bill Ricky Bill Ricky he was incredible too. I feel like I'm kind of jumping all over the place but that's how my brain the tourniquet so definitely the tourniquet quickclod they actually fire rescue actually use quickclod when we were in the ambulance pack pack the bullet hole with quickclod but that was after the tourniquet was applied so about you end up with with a severe bleed you got about three to five minutes to survive before you end up bleeding out or getting to the point where you lose too much blood for your body to compensate for it so it was about a little more than three minutes okay from the time I got shot until the time the tourniquet was applied and so we all carry tourniquets on us every vehicle deputies that were out there one of them once they found out where I was shot they got that tourniquet out quickly they got it nice and up high nice and tight which which slowed the bleeding down a lot what it intended to do that is the purpose stop stop stop the bleed stop the bleed so and then in the ambulance they applied the the quickclod which helped out that much more and then once got to you know we got the band at point it was straight into surgery and the trauma doctors did their thing he's a wicked scar yes really wicked scar a couple of them yeah a couple a couple of really wicked skies what a what is the your favorite thing about being back and work other than going back to a normal routine give us the goods this is a video with me give us the good so it's in me I like being back with everybody I missed everybody so sweet you know I mean these are people that I work with I spent a lot of time with some of which we just got done with quite a patrol school so you know we just went through 17 weeks together working together training together yes yes and I like I like working the dog mm-hmm that's fun I like I get to play hide-and-seek professionally exactly exactly it's it's fun that's how you make your living that's it I love that that's awesome so I think that's kind of wraps it up yeah I just you know I want to say thank you to everybody out there that supported us the sheriff's office was wonderful the community was wonderful the community was more than one fly I came in full support absolutely yeah yeah so you know friends and family got me through everything and it was awesome yeah what you guys may have heard earlier in the press conference but if you haven't already seen it what was the ironic fact that you mentioned earlier family talking okay so which I think is I think it's weird ironically so I come from a long line of law enforcement officers me too yes so my grandfather my father my mother my mother was a law enforcement both mother and father worked here at the pasco sheriff's office my wife is a law enforcement officer so ironically back in the 1980s when my father worked for the sheriff's office he was on a SWAT call and he was shot was it by chance the same area or it like it was in holiday no no no no no he actually he was shot in the head yes that was a he has a heart initial reaction wow we're just doing video so come on in guys that was corporate mad and this is just in our office this is what it's like so we're gonna go ahead and wrap up the video so happy thankful blessings to god I believe that you are back to all that were involved that helped out to get him back on the road everyone at the hospital community supporters pso fam your fam friends he literally already just said all of this but I just felt it again to say it to everyone but thanks for giving us a couple minutes absolutely yeah where's the puppy I know someone's gonna ask in the description where's the puppy so right now he's out in the car we had him out earlier because of the press conference he is a little spastic very spastic cuckoo yeah yes so which makes him a great work dog exactly that's what you need hi drive okay so if you guys have already done so like the video comment if you'd like subscribe if you'd like no pressure um you'd like you would like for those of you on facebook you can't do that but you can head on over to youtube to do so and we will see you guys next time and be sure to comment below and wish us guys a wish us guy a happy road work happy road what