Linkin024
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They Could’ve Buried Me Instead 
What’s up everyone.
I’m 40 years old.
I’m a father, 6’0”, and currently 177 pounds.
On February 21, 2025, my life changed in a split second when I was in a near-fatal head-on car accident on the way home from a Granville basketball game.
That accident left me with severe chest trauma, a broken sternum, around 30 fractures through my chest and ribs, major blood loss into my chest, emergency surgery with metal plates put into my ribs, and five bulging discs in my lower back.
After that, I couldn’t walk and spent months in a wheelchair, followed by physical therapy before I had to keep rebuilding on my own.
I still deal with pain and limitations from those injuries, especially from my back and from the plates in my ribs when I sleep, breathe deeply, and train.
I was even told there was a real chance I might never properly use my right pec again.
When all of this happened, the goal wasn’t bodybuilding.
The goal was just to survive, recover, and get my body back.
I started weight training again in November 2025, and ever since then I’ve been locked in on pushing forward.
What started as recovery turned into something much bigger.
Now I’m working with a coach, training 6 days a week, and building toward stepping on a bodybuilding stage in 2028.
That’s what this log is going to be about, the full comeback, the progress, the setbacks, the physique changes, and the work it takes to rebuild after something that almost killed me.
I’m not starting this from a normal place.
A little over a year ago, I was fighting just to walk again, and now I’m chasing a bodybuilding show.
I’m grateful to still be here, and I’m ready to see how far I can take this.
I’ll keep updating this thread as I go. 
What’s up everyone.
I’m 40 years old.
I’m a father, 6’0”, and currently 177 pounds.
On February 21, 2025, my life changed in a split second when I was in a near-fatal head-on car accident on the way home from a Granville basketball game.
That accident left me with severe chest trauma, a broken sternum, around 30 fractures through my chest and ribs, major blood loss into my chest, emergency surgery with metal plates put into my ribs, and five bulging discs in my lower back.
After that, I couldn’t walk and spent months in a wheelchair, followed by physical therapy before I had to keep rebuilding on my own.
I still deal with pain and limitations from those injuries, especially from my back and from the plates in my ribs when I sleep, breathe deeply, and train.
I was even told there was a real chance I might never properly use my right pec again.
When all of this happened, the goal wasn’t bodybuilding.
The goal was just to survive, recover, and get my body back.
I started weight training again in November 2025, and ever since then I’ve been locked in on pushing forward.
What started as recovery turned into something much bigger.
Now I’m working with a coach, training 6 days a week, and building toward stepping on a bodybuilding stage in 2028.
That’s what this log is going to be about, the full comeback, the progress, the setbacks, the physique changes, and the work it takes to rebuild after something that almost killed me.
I’m not starting this from a normal place.
A little over a year ago, I was fighting just to walk again, and now I’m chasing a bodybuilding show.
I’m grateful to still be here, and I’m ready to see how far I can take this.
I’ll keep updating this thread as I go.
