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[ominous musi]
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>> Hello and welcome to It Is
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Written Canada.
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Thank you for joining us.
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To say everything in life is
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easy to understand is far from
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the truth.
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Traumatic accidents happen and
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we wonder why.
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>> Why did this happen to me?
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How do I makes sense of this?
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>> These are the types of
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questions Arden Brock found
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himself asking after facing
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more than one life-threatening
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encounter.
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>> When the big one caught him
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by surprise, he saw the face
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of The Evil One tempting him
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to take the easy way out and
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end it all.
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[ARDEN] Hi, I'm Arden Brock,
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I live in Kynoch, a small
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community near Iron Bridge,
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just east of Sault Ste. Marie.
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We own a beef farm and do some
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logging, retail firewood from
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the logging industry to a
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market near us.
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[gentle piano music]
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I met Kristen at a regional
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camp meeting where a bunch of
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the churches got together once
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a year for religious meetings
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and she came from a different
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church in the area than I did.
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So we have three children
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together and Natalie is our
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oldest and then Isaac and
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Aaron's youngest.
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They bring a lot of joy to
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life, they're awesome kids and
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they're fun to be with and
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they enjoy time with the
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family and I love them.
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I've always been involved in
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equipment operation as part of
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the industries we work in and
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it involves a lot of danger.
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The equipment is good
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equipment, but just by nature,
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working with animals and
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working with primary industry,
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it involves a level of danger
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similar to that of the mining
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industry.
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We are the softest thing that
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we work with.
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As such, I've had a number of
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incidents in my life where
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it's clear that God is the One
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that takes the credit, that is
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the one that provided the
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protection.
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I remember one incident when
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we were in the logging
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industry, I was driving a
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slasher up a hill and as I got
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on this hill, I realized that
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I didn't have enough traction
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to make it over the top, but
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at that point you're committed
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so what can you do?
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So I made the decision, "Well,
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I'll go until I spin out and
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hopefully it'll get enough
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traction that I can at least
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hold it on the hill."
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I wasn't able to so I started
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to slide back down the hill
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backwards and although you're
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sliding, you have some
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steering control and I
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thought, well, maybe if I
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can steer the back end of
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the trailer into the snow bank
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it'll stop me and there's a
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drop-off on the left side.
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The trailer goes into the bank
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on the right hand side and it
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pushes the truck sideways and
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I look over through the window
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and I see a stump of a tree
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and I'm like, "Oh, what's this
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gonna feel like?"
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And all of a sudden, the truck
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rattles and just stops and...
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Why?
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And when I get out and look
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and crawled out the passenger
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side because I'm hanging mid
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air on the driver's side, I
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notice that the boom of the
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slasher has rested up against
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a tree that was standing on
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the side of the road and it's
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what kept the slasher from
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rolling over.
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So that's one of the examples
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of how God's intervened in
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my life.
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My accident happened a month
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and a day after my first born
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was born.
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As a new parent, you don't get
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as much sleep as you normally
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would so there was a lot of
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influencing factors, it was a
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hectic period of time on the
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farm, it was the beginning of
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haying season so there was
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obviously a lot of work, we're
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just wrapping up some of the
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forestry side of things so,
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again, that was taking a lot
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of time.
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So we baled baleage, if you're
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familiar with farm work,
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there's a round baler that you
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bale green hay.
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When we bale that, if the
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moisture content isn't
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perfect, it'll tend to wrap on
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the rollers and if it does
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that, often times we don't
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deal with it right away, we'll
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deal with it later in the day
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or as a preventative
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maintenance the following
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morning which was what I did
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this day.
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That happened the night
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before, we had worked late
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into the night to wrap up some
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baleage and the following
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morning I was doing this
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preventative maintenance where
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I would cut off the wrapped
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material on those rollers.
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So you take an X-Acto knife
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and just score the material
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and then turn the baler on,
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turn the PTO on on the tractor
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and it turns the rollers and
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usually the material will come
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come off, if it doesn't, you
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shut the PTO off and get back
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in and score it in a
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different location.
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I had done that a number of
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times and this one rubber
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roller, it didn't want to
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flake off so I thought, "Well,
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I'll just use a putty knife
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and scrape that while it's
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turning," an unsafe procedure
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so if somebody's listening and
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you think, "Well, it won't
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happen to me," I'm here to
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tell you that it can happen
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to you.
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So I went up there with a
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putty knife and since I knew
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the danger, I was very
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cautious that, you know, you
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don't let the putty knife get
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pulled in and so you're there
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being very careful that as--
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just flip it up a little bit
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and if that putty knife gets
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caught, you're gonna let it go.
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Well, what I didn't take into
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consideration what that the
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leather glove I was wearing
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had a tab on the back side and
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that tab got caught between
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the roller and the belt and
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pulled me in backwards.
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And as soon as I got caught in
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there, I recognized that this
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wasn't going to have a good
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ending, I didn't probably
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anticipate how bad it was
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gonna be at the time, but it
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pulled me in and there I am
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stuck and it stuck right about
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the knuckles where I'm pulled
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back in toward this pinch
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point and the belt's turning,
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of course, now I can't get to
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the tractor to shut it off, no
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one else is around, I'm in the
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shop by myself.
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You can yell and holler, call
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for help, but nobody's gonna
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hear you, it's half a mile to
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the nearest house.
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So I did those things, I
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yelled and hollered and,
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you know, called.
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And then because of that, I
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lost my grip and I went in
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further so now I'm up about
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the forearm, halfway or a
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little higher between the
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elbow and the wrist.
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And that's where I recognized
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that this had the potential to
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kill me.
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[machinery whirring]
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There was no way out and more
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than likely the only way that
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I'm getting out is by going
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through.
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So I looked out a window, I
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was up on top of the machine
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so I could see out a window,
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it was maybe ten feet high
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and I was looking to the
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east and you just see light
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and kind of the hills in the
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background and you wonder if,
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you know, that's the last time
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you're going to see the day.
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So I looked down at the
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rollers and I see as they're
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turning like a thousand RPM,
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they're turning very quickly,
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and The Devil tempts at that
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point in time, like, "Arden,
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just put in the other arm."
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It's like he's looking you in
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the face and says, you know,
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"End it all, just put in the
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other hand and be done with it."
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And the prayer that I had
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prayed, you know, "Lord, help
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me, dear Jesus, help me," that
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was essentially four-worded
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prayer, very simple.
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And that's when God gave me
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the intuition, if you just
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hold back a little bit longer,
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the rollers will go through
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the muscle, when it hits the
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bone, it's going to be
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slippery and then you can jump
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from the machine and be free,
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it'll break those bones off.
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Sometimes it's easier to die
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than to live for God.
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So I decided at that moment I
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will try to do what God asks
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me to.
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It's not an easy thing and I
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jumped from the machine, I
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landed on the floor on my
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feet, but I was dismembered.
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My arm, my right arm, was gone
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from mid-way between the elbow
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and the wrist and that is the
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moment that now you have to
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struggle for your life.
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Even though you're free from
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the machine, that doesn't mean
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you're alive for long.
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So there was a phone in the
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shop, I went over to the phone
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and called 9-1-1, filed a
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report with them and they
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said, "Where are you?" and I
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tried to explain the location.
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I said, "Well, I can't stay on
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the phone with you, I need to
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go out to the road so you'll
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know where I am," and they
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reluctantly agreed that that
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was the best scenario and I
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hung up with them and then I
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called my wife.
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Again, as I had mentioned, our
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daughter's a month and a day
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old and Kristen took Natalie
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and put her in the back seat
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of the car, grabbed some
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towels, she didn't know what
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she was in for, I had simply
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told her that I had tore my
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arm off in the baler and I'd
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called 9-1-1, but I'd probably
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need some help before the
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ambulance got there.
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So it was a moment of panic
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for her, she was very certain
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that I wouldn't survive, but
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she wanted to do what she
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could to comfort my last
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moments.
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So she attempted to come to
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the location.
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In the meantime, I shut the
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machine off and then I exited
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the building and as I exited
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the building, my dad and my
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sister, they were coming down
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the road and there's one break
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in the buildings where you can
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see from the shop door up to
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the road and my sister had
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noticed me walking out the
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door and said to my dad, you
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know, "Looks like Aden's
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coming out of the shop, maybe
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he wants to talk to us."
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So they slowed down as they're
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passing behind the other
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building and I saw that they
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were coming so I went a little
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bit to the left to meet them
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at the roadway and that's when
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my dad saw for the first time
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that, you know, I had been
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involved in this accident and
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was dismembered.
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It was a huge shock to him.
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As a parent now, you know,
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I can only kind of begin to
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recognize the...
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...the upheaval and the sorrow
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that he experienced
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in that moment.
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You know, it's such a loss for
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us personally to experience a
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loss, but for a parent to
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experience a loss is also a
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great tragedy.
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So I went over to the pickup,
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my sister had gotten out, I
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walked around behind, as I was
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getting in I noticed some
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flagging tape that was laying
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on the dash of the truck and I
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asked my sister to put a
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tourniquet on, even though it
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wasn't bleeding all that bad,
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I don't know why it wasn't
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bleeding tremendously, at that
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point it should have been
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gushing blood, but it was, you
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know, there was blood there,
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it wasn't that it was
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bloodless, but it wasn't
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pouring out.
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We got in the truck, Dad drove
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as fast as the truck would
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allow him to and we met the
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ambulance partway to the
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hospital.
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In the first mile of that is
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where we met Kristen coming
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and we just briefly slowed
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down and explained that Dad
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was taking me to the
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ambulance, she turned around
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and started to follow us.
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We met the ambulance, I got
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out of the pickup and got in
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the ambulance, when we got in
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the ambulance they asked me,
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"Well, where's the rest of
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your arm?" and that's when I
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recalled, I'd never thought of
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picking it up before, but I
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recalled when I was on the
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phone with 9-1-1, I heard it go
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through the compression
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rollers.
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He came back to pick that up,
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another gruesome task that he
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did, essentially because he
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loved me, because there was
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the possibility or we were
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informed that maybe there was
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a possibility that they could
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do a reattachment so he was
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willing to do whatever it took
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to, you know, follow through
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with the possibility of that.
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I got in the ambulance, they
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took me to the local hospital
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which is a small hospital.
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There they, you know, just
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more or less assessed the
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situation, made sure I was
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stable and started a pain
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management program and then
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from there, we did a land
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transfer in an ambulance to
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Sault Ste. Marie.
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At that hospital, a fellow was
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already being prepped and the
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OR team was ready to do a
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surgery on a broken leg and
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that man graciously offered up
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his spot in the operating room
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for me to have revisionary
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surgery at that time, which is
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not a common thing, often
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times with trauma
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dismemberment you end up
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having at least one
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revisionary surgery if not a
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number of revisionary
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surgeries over a period of
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weeks or months.
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And so in my case, they did an
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amputation, a revisionary
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amputation on the day of my
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accident and I've never had a
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surgery on the residual
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limb since.
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God, I believe, guided that
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team in a way that they could
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do an adequate job on the day
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of the injury, that it didn't
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have to be revisited later on.
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I remember the trip,
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the individuals going into the
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x-ray room, going into the
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operating room, and right up
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until the...
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anaesthesia set in,
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I remember everything clearly
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and I believe it was God that
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gave that clarity, right?
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I also remember waking up from
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the surgery.
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Prior to the surgery, I
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remember having a conversation
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with the doctor saying, "Well,
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we're gonna see what we can
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do, we might be able to
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reattach, but we'll see what
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we can do," and they held out
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a glimmer of hope,
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but not a lot.
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When I woke up, I remember I
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still had the sensation of a
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full arm and I thanked them
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profusely and I remember
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distinctly the doctor kinda
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floundering for words as he
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thought I was too optimistic
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to know that they had
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amputated and that he was
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trying to inform me that,
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"Well, we weren't able to save
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your arm, Arden, we had to
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amputate and you don't have a
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right arm."
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And I still just continued to
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thank them for doing what they
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could and it was an emotional
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scene in the operating room, a
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number of the nurses had to
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leave because they were used
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to someone that would be angry
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in that situation, right?
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And I don't say that in part
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of that grieving process I
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wasn't angry, but God gave me
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the ability to be grateful
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even in the loss.
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It just comes down to our focal
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point, right, are we gonna focus
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on the loss or are we gonna
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focus on what remains.
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So from that point on, we went
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into rehab, there was a few
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nights in-- two nights, I
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guess, in the ICU where they
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watched carefully and then
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they transferred me into a
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private room.
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Of course, very concerned
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about PTSD and my mental state
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at that point to try and
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mitigate any attempt to do
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anything further.
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So I believe God is the one
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that gave me the strength to
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not become despondent and I
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can't help but credit my
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family and friends at that
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time for their immense
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support, there was a huge
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amount of support from the
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farming community, from my
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friends, and most of all from
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my family.
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My children don't know Dad
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with two arms.
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My oldest was a month and a
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day old when the accident
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happened so her memory--
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I have one picture of me holding
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my daughter with two arms.
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My two sons, I was one-handed
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before they were conceived.
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So my daughter was the only
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one that even has the
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knowledge that I had two arms
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at one point in time.
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Why I didn't die of shock or
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bleed out is a miracle.
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I don't believe there's any
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explanation of why
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that didn't happen.
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I didn't need a transfusion
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from the trauma or from the
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followup revisionary surgery.
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Not that I was opposed to
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having a blood transfusion,
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there was just no need for one.
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I had signed the paperwork to
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allow it, but the medical team
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deemed that there was no
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necessity for me to have any
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transfusion.
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So I believe it was God's
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intervention.
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Naturally I would have bled
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out a number of times over
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again, I would have died from
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blood loss, I would have died
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from shock, it was strictly a
00:21:20.84\00:21:24.45
miracle of God that I survived
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that incident, not through my
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strength, not through any of
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my keen-wittedness or
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intellect, it was God's
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direction, following God's
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direction.
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Yeah, so there was one doctor
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that, he was responsible for
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pain management and he came to
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visit me in my room after the
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surgery kind of to explain
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pain management and I asked
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him the question of why didn't
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I bleed out, why didn't I
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bleed?
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And he's like, "I don't know."
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He says, "If I would have
00:22:03.45\00:22:05.79
heard even from the team that
00:22:05.79\00:22:08.36
you didn't need a blood
00:22:08.36\00:22:10.43
transfusion, I wouldn't have
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believed it."
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He says, "Because I was there,
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I know that's what happened,
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but I don't understand why."
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So in that moment, I chose to
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do what God had asked me to do
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and He gave the the strength
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to do it, it wasn't something
00:22:28.01\00:22:30.25
that I did of myself and He
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gave me the strength following
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that to be positive because
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you can't go through trauma
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and not decide.
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You have to decide tomorrow's
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another day, yes, but it's not
00:22:43.02\00:22:45.66
the same as yesterday.
00:22:45.66\00:22:47.46
So now you have to decided
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whether you're going to be
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grateful for what remains or
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whether you're going to be
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bitter for what you've lost.
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And, really, a bad attitude is
00:22:55.50\00:22:58.14
the worst disability.
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You don't have to be
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physically disabled to be
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disabled by a bad attitude.
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God has made our body awesome.
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The way the body will adapt to
00:23:09.78\00:23:13.89
loss and compensate is
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incredible.
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With a little modification,
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operated equipment, do
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mechanical work, work in the
00:23:24.40\00:23:26.07
forestry industry.
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The mechanical work is
00:23:27.90\00:23:29.60
probably one of the most
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challenging, but it's
00:23:31.14\00:23:33.11
interesting how, even though I
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was right-hand dominant
00:23:34.74\00:23:36.41
before, now I can take a bolt
00:23:36.41\00:23:38.11
between my thumb, index finger
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and I can thread a nut on with
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one hand.
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Before I couldn't do that with
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my right hand.
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But God has done something in
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our brains that when we do
00:23:49.32\00:23:52.33
stuff like that, He gives us
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the ability if we set our mind
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to it.
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So moving forward, God has
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given me the ability to
00:24:01.94\00:24:06.41
continue to be positive
00:24:06.41\00:24:08.81
because of His strength, not
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because of my ability.
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>> So, Arden, you, Kristen,
00:24:15.02\00:24:16.62
and your three precious
00:24:16.62\00:24:18.35
children are going to drive
00:24:18.35\00:24:21.26
all the way from here,
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Ontario, to Alberta, Lacombe,
00:24:23.63\00:24:27.03
and you're going to start a
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new chapter in your lives.
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>> Yes, and since we love the
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farm so much, we intend to
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come back in the summer time
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and spend our summers here
00:24:36.81\00:24:38.84
helping out with the family
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farm and then we follow God's
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leading and go through the
00:24:42.68\00:24:45.08
education and we'll find out
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what God has in the future
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when that time comes.
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>> Arden, before we go, I
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wonder if you could pray for
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our viewers.
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There may be someone
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struggling right now with
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feelings of bitterness, maybe
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questions, maybe they're
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struggling to go on.
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Could you pray for those
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people right now?
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>> Certainly, certainly.
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Let's pray.
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Our Father in Heaven, we thank
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You for Your love for us,
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Father.
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You know that there's
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individuals out there that are
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struggling with bitterness,
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with loss.
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Life isn't easy on us here in
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this world and, Father, I pray
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that through Your Holy Spirit
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You'll be near each one,
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encourage them, reassure them
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of Your love for us and may
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the joy of service to You be
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in their heart.
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I pray, in Jesus' name, amen.
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[MIKE & REN蒥 Amen.
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>> Arden, thank you so much
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for joining us on It Is
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Written Canada.
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>> Thank you so much for
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having me.
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[ARDEN] We're doing well.
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The first few days after we
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moved here was an incredible
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transition.
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We have found a new church
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family and my children are
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involved there, my wife is--
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feels very accepted and the
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church family's very
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welcoming.
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My children started on a new
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platform in school and, of
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course, I had an awesome
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transition from being in the
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industry to being as a
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student, but God provided and
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we made that transition and
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now we're underway and
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everything is going along
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smoothly.
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>> Listening to Arden's
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experience has taught us many
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practical lessons such as how
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to live with optimism in the
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face of traumatic setbacks.
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Our free offer for you today
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is Words of Hope.
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>> Words of Hope will help you
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understand other life lessons
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to guide you in your Christian
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walk such as the blessing of
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generosity, the power of
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humility, and the way to
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persevere when life is tough.
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>> You, too, can experience
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the fullness of life found in
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the words of Jesus when He
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said, "It is written, 'Man
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shall not live by bread alone,
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but by every word that
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proceeds out of the mouth
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of God.'"
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>> While working hard for his
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family, he lost an arm and was
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suddenly afraid.
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"From now on, I shall only be
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able to do things by halves.
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I shall reap a half harvest,
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I shall be able to play either
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the tune or the accompaniment
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on the piano, but never both
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parts together.
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I shall be able to bang with
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only one fist on the doors and
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worst of all, I shall only be
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able to half hold my love
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close to me.
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There will be things I cannot
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do at all, applaud, for
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example, at shows where
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everyone applauds."
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From that moment on, he set
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himself to do everything with
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twice as much enthusiasm.
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And where the arm had been
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torn away, a wing grew.
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[hopeful music playin]
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い
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