Welcome to episode 708 with my guest Dr. Frank Anderson. If you're a new listener, this is the

medall in this house, happy hour nut's place. I don't care for the tone of my voice. This is a place for honesty about all the

battles in our heads and I'm not a therapist and this is not meant to be a substitute for professional

mental counseling which is probably pretty obvious but I feel obliged to say that

anyway the website for this show say that

the website for this show and the social media handles are a mental pod and I had a very interesting week.

Those of you that listen regularly know that I had eye surgery two weeks ago

and the doctor after one week cleared me to play hockey and I was super excited and got

into one of the worst head-on collisions I've had in 50 years of playing hockey and it was mostly

it was not intentional on the guy's part that ran into me.

Because I know he's a good guy and he's a clean hockey player.

He just skates really hard.

And I was leaning over I played defense and I was on the blue line leaning

stretched out kind of over the end of my skates trying to keep the puck in with my stick.

And neither of us saw each other and he was coming pretty fast,

trying to get the puck as well.

And it was just this crunch that threw my head back as my head,

because my head, I was extended,

so I couldn't protect myself,

I couldn't bring my arm up at the last moment.

And as I'm laying there on the ice, I'm thinking my neck is absolutely broken.

And my teammates are concerned they're like can you can you feel your

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