A few weeks ago I was at an APEX - Functional Medicine Seminar in Dallas and my Truck got ripped up with screwdrivers and bashed in with a tire iron. This is what I wrote right after it happened as I walked back into the seminar with no belongings and little concentration.
“My truck got robbed. Locks ripped off, shattered glass everywhere, and an 18,000 dollar device gone out of the back seat. All my clothes, my cooler full of broccoli, and my lifting shoes. Poof. Insurance will likely cover $200 bucks.
I walked through the door back into the functional med seminar and I couldn’t pay attention. All I could think in my head was F$CK. They took my compression tights. Those were f$cking expensive! Then the lecturer Dr. Brock started telling a story about diagnosing a man who had muscle belly growths all over his body. He said this gentleman didn’t know yet, but he had ALS and less than two years to live.
It could be worse, I just have to buy some new underwear.
Time to learn.”
This is the first time I have been robbed since High School. It leaves an eerie feeling in the pit of your stomach, but this feeling didn’t even come close to when our house got robbed multiple times during the recession, they even ripped off the copper gutters up to the second story while we were asleep. I am not an innocent angel by any means and likely have built up plenty of bad ju ju from my adolescence, so shit happens…
We can only hope there are few hoodlums in Dallas who are testing their readiness before they go out busting car windows and wreaking havoc. I also hope their HPA axis is in the shitter. Petty, I know.
Over the last few weeks, I have been collecting receipts, getting estimates, blah blah. Just a bunch of busy work. Coach Davis has been relentless in his acceptance and help with the situation and OmegaWave has been nothing short of amazing. We are almost back up and running at likely more than full speed.
The biggest hit is not the money or the time it has cost to get back online, but the data. We had full cross-sectional data in over 500 athletes and who knows how many follow-ups, we hadn’t backed it up because we thought it was in the cloud. It wasn’t, an oversight on our part, which won’t happen again. We can’t get that data back, all we can do is build it again. So we will be evaling everyone who comes to the Seminar for free (likely multiple times) and we will be cutting our full eval price in half to $100 bucks for the next month (through Aug 9th).
Thank You OmegaWave for all your help, Thank You Davis for not stabbing me in the jugular for losing the OmegaWave, and Thank You to my boy Zach Williams who took me to the mall in a monsoon so I could purchase some fresh undergarments.
By: Ben House
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