I ruptured a disc in my back shoveling snow at the end of 2022, and it took me months – months! – to upgrade from my usual doctor to a back specialist. After a few weeks of visits and plenty of needles in my back, I was finally on the mend. Then, as I was getting ready to leave my fancy new doctor's office, I let slip: "Hey, so I'm working on this story, and I'm going to take this dude to Great Escape. He's sort of obsessed with roller coasters."