 I have been bike racing since 2004 all over the country I raced on big teams and did a lot of big races. So last year in 2018 I was in the best shape of my life ever and competing at a very high level on the podium a lot. One State Championships was second at Nationals and two races just really outstanding season and I went out with some friends tooling around one day at the end of my season and I had an accident and I broke my neck and it was a life-changer for sure. She had a ruptured disc between those two vertebrae and a piece of that was broken off and actually pinching a nerve and she had a fracture through the spine as well and a fragment or fragments of fractured bone were also pressing on the nerve and so between the bone fractures the disc rupture and the ligament injury which hold those vertebrae together I was very concerned that this was a highly unstable fracture and that she needed both surgery to relieve the pinched nerve but also surgery to realign and stabilize the vertebrae. Getting her back to full activity really required this extensive surgery and in that sense I really didn't see an alternative I think this is what she needed to make sure that she would be back biking again. Now it's been four months post-op and I just got cleared to ride outside so I've been outside once. I didn't have any pain in my neck and I was just you know able to look over my shoulder and look down at my garment and reach for my bottle and all the things you normally do. I'm gearing up for the season now I'm in the gym I've been in the gym my strength coach my bike coach my Kaiser Permanente team I have this team of people helping me and it's it's it's really great to have this to have this group I'm pretty grateful I found an amazing doctor I mean I wasn't expecting it and he's really outstanding so I'm I'm I feel blessed to have had him as my surgeon and the nursing team was so great they know what they're talking about I I could never give them enough thanks I guess is what I'm saying Kaiser Permanente has been good medicine for me