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- Leah Holderbaum: you Hey everyone, it's Jenny here, host of Bladder Chatter with Jenny for the Ally Program podcast. Just wanted to give a quick intro about my upcoming guest, Marcus Jefferson. Super excited to have him on. He's a new spinal cord injury and he'll tell you a little bit more about that. He has two sons. His injury levels between a T6 and a T7 and he just wanted to share his journey with us. We call it the new ride because he is into all things rodeo, team roping. and cooking. So lots of good fun things coming up in this episode. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did recording it. Thanks. Hey everyone, Jenny Miller here with Bladder Chatter or the Ally Program podcast. Sitting next to me, I've got my good friend Marcus here. What's up? And Marcus and I are just going to have a little chit chat about ⁓ a new spinal cord injury, right? Because how long have you, how long has it been since your injury? Eight months. Okay. So going on eight months. So Marcus is relatively new to all things spinal cord injury. Is there anything that you've learned or you've picked up that you're like initially when you had your accident, your injury, that you're like, there's no way I'd be able to do that? Yeah, mean, that's a long story. Okay, all right. Sure, for sure. I know we've been through a journey on that to say the least. Where are you doing things? Right now I'm So in East Texas is what you consider home? very cool. So since your injury, you haven't been been home yet, right? So you've been okay. So you had your injury, February of 2025. And then from there, you've been is are you in your second rehab right now? No, third. Third. Okay. Gotcha. Gotcha. Gotcha. So new career, new things on the horizon for you? That's my one. want to go back to school. Okay. process of getting back in the school of IT, cyber security or IT paralegal. Gotcha. Now both of those would be so cool. I've got some rapid fire questions for you. All right. So first thing that comes to your mind. Okay. So here was the wheelchair. Hydro dip flames or full custom wrap? Full custom. Full custom wrap. What's your your drink, your go-to drink to keep your pick me up, give you the energy? Daniels. ⁓ see now I thought you were going to say a monster because you were drinking one. but you said the go-to pick me up. when? I have to. Okay, so Jack Daniels at night. Oh, that guy was on the rocks at night. At night on the rocks. Okay. That's your day, pick me up. Oh, my day, pick me up, these monsters. The orange? No, I like the green. Okay. Okay. Let's see before the injury happened, what did a normal day in the life of Marcus look like? The day was working 24 hours a day. Okay. I was working, he calling me up at the equipment. Am rodeo. Am rodeo. Yeah, that's number one. Am rodeo. I love it. Is the food and rehab really as bad as they say it is? ⁓ yeah, it is. So you've got some roommates right now? How many? It's four. Okay, so there's four in your house. I love the setup that you're in. I think it's cool. mean, you're cooking. Does everybody want to be at your house so they can... get in on the food when they hear about it. Now that's what I say I live in. I have five boys. I'm like, I live in the frat house. I love it. Cooking in the frat house. So there's a toughness in the rodeo world, right? How do you take that grit and determination with rodeo and propel yourself in with your rehab journey? you have a different journey. Yeah. Which is science and rehab. We say, just send it. Just send it. No, that's amazing. Who are you following on Instagram right now? Who is your, you know, who are some good followers that give you just inspiration that you find funny or that you just are there for the journey? And they can all be different Instagram users, Insta people. It's really well done. That's a day in the life of hanging out with trials and tribulations and you go through how to get yourself up, different scenarios. mean, it's nothing, no stone unturned. Yeah, for sure. That's one the reasons why they are an open gift. Nature, yeah. I've seen their stuff. They're amazing. We enjoy them. Who else? Is there a funny one? There's somebody that brings some humor. So what's something that people do that try to help you but actually makes things harder? Okay. Yeah. But they don't want you almost touching the ground. ⁓ now I can. ⁓ yeah. We come down. can we can we talk a little bit about about that if you're comfortable talking about that? What I I can tell it from my perspective, but I think people want to hear it more from from you of what you were dealing with and how how your life has changed with. being able to intermittent self-capital. A cowboy up, right? Bull send? Send it. Send it. Send it. yeah, talk a little bit about what's going on and where we're at now. and then the general security. Coming from the hospital I was using, you want the two big cat, which really is a strong cat. They can't really even tell. She's the one that the hospital comes to. So, for the longest, wouldn't need for one certain kind of It's really cute. If they have to, it's the language that they could. Cost a problem, you never track situation. And flying so that journey was really. Yeah, we, we went through the gamut like we went through a bunch. And the only one we could find was the bar. The bar, the red rubber. Yeah, that little guy, I it worked. it's fun. Yeah. Finally, we could go see a surgeon. That was good. was good. We found this product mix. It's happy. ⁓ yeah. Yeah. And then the one I got back, she was excellent. The emotional experience on that during that situation, that's about her. And new motion. And that's been a have to have a. Yeah, a fully. It's Jenny right here. got everything accomplished. That's right. We weren't going to give up. There was no giving up on you being successful with this. I think the ask at the end of this is if you're having issues with your capital, if you're looking for a change, if there's better options out there, if you think you're paying too much, feel free to reach out. Happy to help and consult and find the best fit for you. So, I mean, and that's what the Ally program and the podcast and everything that we're doing is creating a peer-to-peer network. post-to-coast where you can talk to other users, people going through the same thing that you're going through and have that ⁓ community and that continuity of care. ⁓ Yeah. I gotcha. Better call Jenny instead of better call Saul. That's right. Cool. ⁓ Well, that's it for us on Bladder Chatter. Thanks for your time today. Anything you want to say, full send? Bye.