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has made sure that he can recover motivator. I guess this showed me I had to grow
and get back to life. “She’s made sure He did experience some uncertainty up and be a responsible adult,” he says
that I have no worries in my everyday about that support soon after his last with a grin.
life…food in the kitchen, no rent to surgery. Accompanying Andy, his fa- There are still challenges ahead, there
pay.” Anthony currently lives with her ther, to a show in southern California are monstrous medical bills to be paid
and his son, Anthony (“little Ant”). and still in a wheelchair, he tells of and the legal ramifications of the acci-
In addition, his dad Andy, and his experiencing huge anxiety and fear dent will be addressed at a trial begin-
sister and cousins, step in to do what- about what awaited him at the show. ning in November. And though he is
ever is needed. Friends have been “I was really nervous about how peo- adapting to his prosthesis quite well,
there from the beginning doing what- ple would respond to me, what their he acknowledges that the adjustment
ever they can, be it contributions of reaction would be to my leg being to his image in the mirror is slow.
money, time, or assistance. As someone that considered
Anthony says, “Whenever I himself spiritually “in tune”
couldn’t take care of myself, before the accident, Anthony
there has always been family asked himself many times why
or friends to carry me through. God would let something like
I couldn’t ask for more than this happen and came to the
that.” conclusion that there was a les-
“There are so many people son to be learned, he just had
that didn’t give up on me, I to be a good student to find
couldn't give up on myself. I what that lesson was. If you
won’t lie, there are times I just listen to his story, to his words:
laid down and cried but I didn't "Keep it simple, be positive,
give up. That would be letting grateful, have no regrets," pos-
down everyone, I would be sibly the lesson to be learned
spitting in the face of the peo- applies to us all.
ple who helped me,” he says Throughout this ordeal, that
about the support from family same word keeps cropping up
and friends that has been from Anthony..... GRATE-
a great FUL. “I just feel this was all
a challenge to better myself, to
be a father, to support my son.
I have no regrets, I just think
gone.” In the end, he needn’t have this is something I had to go through
worried. “Everyone was great, to make me who I am. I have to learn
they really didn’t make a big deal to keep it simple, to be positive. I’m
of anything, they were just really still sociable, I still go out, hang out
happy to see me.” with my family, I’ll continue to live
Though he plans to work at life. All of this just added a couple of
a few shows this summer, An- years to the original ‘life plan’.”
thony has enrolled in college for
the fall semester. “I grew up at Financial assistance can be sent to
the shows, it’s part of who I ShowBiz, earmarked "Anthony".
am, but I’m a father and I’m
responsible for someone else.
"Keep it simple, be positive, grateful, have no regrets."
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