At some point a year or two ago, the staff at my local Giant supermarket started randomly greeting me and asking if everything was all right, if I had found everything I needed, if there was anything they could do to make my shopping experience more pleasant.

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Doctors there ... had a lot more experience with this kind of injuries and said I should be OK -- rehab and everything -- within a year.

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And if I reflect on that time and I reflect on the early years, the first lesson was: you can learn from every experience and everything that you do.

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