Well, the interesting thing was, I got to have a whole group of experiences I would have never, ever had.
In my first year, I got to meet a whole bunch of celebrities. I got to do a whole lot of adventures through the military Soldier On program, which was key in my rehabilitation. It was a rehab-through-sport program. With Canada being so geographically challenged, the next injured veteran might be hundreds of kilometres away. The program brought us all together to establish a community, where we could all mutually support each other, and in addition to bringing the member around, it brought the families around as well. So the wounded members' families could lean on each other for support, and that developed that community.
All the people I met through Solder On are my support network today. I still see them, and that was just phenomenal for me. And it gave me a lot of opportunities to show, “Hey, I may be disabled, but I can still do all this stuff.” I had the opportunity. I climbed Kilimanjaro for a fundraiser. I get to play sled hockey now and show that I can still rough people up, even though I don't have my feet. That was a really major factor in getting me back on my feet and getting some kind of normalcy back in my life.