On April 2, 2006 I had an accident with my 1961 Fordson Major tractor on a remote gravel road. I was crushed underneath the tractor, with the fender pushing my head into the gravel road. I thought my head was going to split as it pushed the skin from my cheek right through my teeth.

I broke 12 ribs in 28 places, badly punctured both my lungs in three places, crushed my internal organs, broke both my shoulder blades, collar bones, crushed my right wrist flat, drove a one inch bolt through my thumb, crushed my fingers into a mirror and badly bruised the rest of myself. I broke all of my teeth biting down on them in the accident but I kept telling myself not to panic and controlled my breathing.

When the tractor was lifted off me, I stood up as I was in too much pain to lay down. This likely saved my life as my lungs had filled up with blood and I was breathing on less than 10% capacity. I spent 5 hours in Nakusp Emergency and then 13 hours in Emergency down in Trail while they rebuilt my carpal tunnel and hand.

I was too badly screwed up to put on life support but somehow stayed alive. The first week I spent sucking all the blood out of my lungs and the second week I got up walking and walked out of the hospital 13 days later on good Friday.

I couldn’t get my teeth fixed in the hospital as I had holes in my lungs. I had to wait two months for the metal plate to piece my collarbone back together. At the same time I had my teeth looked at and told it would cost $35K to fix them as they were all broken. Health Care said they would pay for $800. of it if I paid the $200. deductible; which I didn’t have living on a disability. I guess the corporate government doesn’t want to spend $35K on a broken human resource. Somewhat the same profit motivation consideration our natural resources get.

My disability ran out after two years so I am now supporting myself selling these calculators, my software and my pentagon pyramid dome models. For some strange reason I was told they fix teeth in an emergency if they are broken and causing pain, yet the Health Authority in BC paid to have a dentist look at my teeth and photograph all of them that shows them all broken and as a consequence all of them causing me pain. My mercury amalgams are all broken and leaking toxins into my body while I am trying to heal. I don’t get it. For some reason; because ALL of my teeth are broken, they can’t do them. I found that there is no use writing letters and waiting uselessly in pain in offices all day long only to be turned down.

I don’t do pharmaceuticals. My wife is an Iridologist and Herbal Practitioner, so I had the benefit of many alternative healing techniques. The most important for me was learning self hypnosis, energy channelling and Jude’s Panacea Paste.

I was told that I would never use my right hand again as it had absolutely zero response when they tested the nerves after the accident. They even suggested it was not worth it to fix my collarbone since the shoulder blade was also broken and it was unlikely I could use my hand for anything. I did not accept that and now my fingers can move and I can play the banjo.

All of my life I wanted to play a musical instrument, so I got myself a banjo and determined how to play it after I got disabled and couldn’t do much but lay there. I started out taping picks to my fingers with my hand flopping uselessly. I taught my children music at the same time as I learned. Since I am a systems analyst, I had to reduce the musical system to a calculator in order to understand it and show my kids how notes joined together to make chords, etc… I hope you find the calculator as useful a tool as we have. All the best!!