take me back to that night. i want to get on you record explaining. >> the day that i was injured i was 24 years old. it was a time in my life when everything was going right. i was working at harper's bizarre and i had a summer share on long island, and there was a pool at the house, and the metal ring ladders that they normally put in the deep end was actually put in the shallow end. the second that i dove in, my chin hit the bottom of the pool and my head snapped back with such force that it shattered my c-3/c-4 vertebrae. i was completely awake, completely conscious and paralyzed. the first thi that i thought was you are an idiot.