Shane Swenson  00:00

Brady was on Cefapine antibiotic with the PICC that he had, you would have to take these little balls, like the size of a racquetball or tennis ball, and they had to refrigerate them, but you had to take them out an hour before you administered them. And so we were on like, I don't know what time, I can't remember what the times, but Jacob would actually get up in the morning and at four o'clock in the morning come upstairs, grab one of those little balls, put on the countertop, and then go to bed so we Jenny and I could sleep. Oh, wow, yeah. I mean, it's just the little things, right? And he did for two, two months, wow, without question. Like, without question, yeah. So, yeah, it takes it takes everybody you know, and he, he definitely stepped up to the challenge. Welcome to Life after impact, the concussion recovery Podcast. I'm Dr Ayla Wolf, and I will be hosting today's episode where we help you navigate the often confusing, frustrating and overwhelming journey of concussion and brain injury recovery. This podcast is your go to resource for actionable information, whether you're dealing with a recent concussion, struggling with post concussion syndrome, or just feeling stuck in your healing process. In each episode, we dive deep into the symptoms, testing treatments and neurological insights that can help you move forward with clarity and confidence. We bring you leading experts in the world of brain health, functional neurology and rehabilitation to share their wisdom and strategies. So if you're feeling lost, hopeless or like no one understands what you're going through, know that you are not alone. This podcast can be your guide and partner in recovery, helping you build a better life after impact.

 

Dr. Ayla Wolf  01:49

In 2019 Shane and his son Brady, were hit by a drunk driver driving 90 miles an hour in a 30 mile an hour speed zone on their way to school. This accident left Brady with a traumatic brain injury that would change his life and the life of his family forever. In this interview, Shane shares Brady's story and how this experience led him and his family to start the Brady Finn Foundation, an organization that raises money to give back to the communities and organizations that supported them during this crisis and afterward. Thank you for joining me for episode 17 of the life after impact podcast, which is being released on May 13, 2025 in honor of Brady swenson's Lucky number 13.

 

Shane Swenson  02:40

All right, welcome to the life after impact podcast, and we have a very special episode today where I have Shane Swenson on. And Shane is here to talk about his son, Brady Swenson, and the story of Brady and everything that his family has been through with Brady's traumatic brain injury. So Shane, welcome to the show. Well, thanks for having me. I'm really happy to be here. I was so impressed with the work that you're doing to you went through so much with Brady, and then you've taken that experience and now you're trying to help all of the people who helped you. And so I just thought that was such an amazing thing that you're doing, and wanted to really highlight Brady's story and and how that's developed, and then everything that you're doing now as a result. So why don't you start out and tell us a little bit about what happened with with Brady and how he got his traumatic brain injury, and we'll take it from there. Well, the the date is very, very fresh in my mind. It comes up a lot most, most days of my life. I think about it. It happened on February 5, 2019 about seven o'clock in the morning. Day was pretty typical. We got up, got ready for work and school. Brady hopped in the car. I drove him every morning to school, to Sacred Heart Catholic school in Robbinsdale, Minnesota, and we had stopped and got gas that morning, and it's a little icy for being February in Minnesota, and I had pulled out and and had driven down the road a bit, and there was this massive it felt like an explosion, to be honest with you, the airbags deployed. And if you've never had that happen to you, it stuns you, like you. You you lose feeling in your body. It's almost like Time stands still, and you have to wait for the feeling to come back in your body before you can react to what what just happened. And the reality sets in, and then panic ensues, right? And obviously Brady was my first priority. And looking behind him, and he was out cold. He'd been knocked unconscious, and I got out, and it was pretty I was pretty hysterical. As you can imagine, the impact was just incredible. I've never experienced anything like that in my entire life, and so first responders arrived on the scene, got me to the hospital, Extra. Brady got him to the hospital. And, you know, it's hard to recall everything that happened in the way that actually did happen. But, you know, there's doctors, and then my wife Jenny came, and then I have two brothers locally that showed up, and they explained the situation that he had. Their biggest concern is one of his pupils had blown, which means that there there was pressure on the brain, and they needed to do emergency craniectomy to get that bone off, the skull off so he could let that brain swell. So that's what, what happened. And they took, they took him into surgery right away, while I was in the ER recovering, and you were rear ended by a drunk driver, correct? That's what happened? Yeah, yeah. This is, this is what blows a lot of people away, is that it was seven o'clock in the morning, and through back channels and talking with the the detective from the New Hope Police Department, his blood alcohol level at 7am was point 319, that's insane. That's, yeah, that, I mean, that's almost four times the legal limit at 7am on a Tuesday. And now, didn't he also have three previous DUIs on his record? To the person that hit you? Yeah, technically, I think he was, it was two, and this turned out to be his third one, yeah, but, you know, just a repetitive behavior from this, this, this man. So you found yourself in the hospital. Brady has to have emergency surgery to relieve the pressure on his brain. Yep, and they successfully removed it. The surgery was fine. I think they actually put the the flap back on, and we're like, wait and see. You know, I don't think the prognosis was very good. He was 12 years old, and he it was a very significant injury. Not only did he have a traumatic brain injury, but he had broken his jaw in two places, and his right femur as well. So he wasn't in pretty tough shape. And, you know, next couple of days, you know, when he stabilized and, you know, and things were going well. But then, I'll never forget this, the crane cranial pressure, they were always monitoring. It was like a, like a ticking time bomb you're just waiting to see, was it going to go up? Was it going to go down? And when it get it? Just throughout the week got worse, right? So Saturday of that week, they actually ended up having to do an emergency crane. So they had to remove it again to allow his brain to swell, which, if you've never seen that, it's amazing that your body can do that and recover from it, you know, I mean, at least, you know, you survive that trauma. So, yeah, that that first week was pretty dicey. Was really dicey. And then after that, he had some other complications as well. Right as far as the plate got infected, or there was another kind of infection. Yeah, so he ended up spending, I don't remember the exact amount of dates. I think it was 18 days in ICU. He spent another seven days, I think. And just like a like a regular floor at at the at the hospital, before he was transported over to St Paul, to Gillette Children's, where he began in how in in house rehab for the next five months. He lived there for five months to get the extensive rehab. And so February was accidents. And then I know it was tax day of 2019 that they brought him back to North Memorial, where he had been to put the bone flap back on. Everything was fine. About three or four months later, you could actually tell that there was parts of a skull that were missing, like it was crazy, because you could feel like a hole in his skull, which was very concerned about, you know, traumatic as well. What is going on here? So we brought it in, and turns out that it's a fairly, a fairly common thing that happens. And so they ended up having to take that it the bone basically dissolves. It's like your body just rejects it after they put it back in. So met with a plastic surgeon, his his neurosurgeon, at Gillette, and they had a 3d I think it was a CT, could have been a Mr. I can't remember. And they send it off to a lab, and they print these things, prosthetic skull, basically like a custom fit based on the image, wow, yep, based on the Yep, based on the imaging. And so then what they did was they had set them up for surgery. This was in March of, I think it was 2021 or 2022 i The years kind of just kind of get all jumbled together now, but it was in March it maybe it was 2020 because I think it's, I think it was right or wrong COVID that this happened. And so he went in and had surgery, got him home, everything was fine. And then he started like. Vomiting, like, like, you know, he'd eat, vomit, eat, you know, and didn't know what was going on. Went back to Gillette, and turned out he had an infection in the underneath the skull cap, there's a bacteria that they had found in there. So they had to remove it again. And so he and then he went on a eight week he had a PICC line, put in an eight week course of these really, really strong antibiotics that we had to administer through IV. So Jenny and I did that every eight hours for on the eight hours for two months we did this. And then in July of that year, he went back in and they made two apparently, in case something happens with the first one. So they put it on and, knock on wood, everything's been fine since then. So that was quite an ordeal, too. That was really kind of a, wow, yeah.

 

Dr. Ayla Wolf

And so at this point, he's, he's in a wheelchair, he can't walk and he can't speak, and he has a feeding tube,

 

Shane Swenson

yep.

 

Dr. Ayla Wolf

And so you, you guys, have undergone a lot of different therapies, a lot of rehab. But let's talk first about just the community outreach and all of the support that you got after this happened. Because I know that was so impactful.

 

Yeah, you don't realize how many people are there to help out until you're in, you know, your most dire time of need, right? It? People that you that you knew are around, that you maybe knew casually, were all, all of a sudden, the most important people in your life. You know, when you're when your son's in, you know ICU, he was in an induced coma for eight days. You don't really feel like doing anything, getting up and going to the hospital every morning was the was the only thing on our minds. And we have an older child too that still had to go to school, and, you know, we had to participate in those things. But Brady and our older son, Jacob, had gone to, like I said, Sacred Heart Catholic school. And I remember being in the in the waiting room when Brady was in surgery, and, you know, like teachers, the principal, the the priest of the parish, they were there, right? You know, along with, like first responders, we had first responders. We had the police chief, we had detectives from from the police department that came and just talked to us, and just there. And it just snowballed, you know, it just, it started out, just being there emotionally, and then it was, what do you need? Do you need food? Do you need? We had dogs at home. People go buy dog food and feed our dogs twice a day, let them out, make sure that they they were taken care of. It was middle winter. Our driveway was always plowed out. We got a lot of snow that year too, and just hot meals. Didn't have to worry about anything and that, and that just made the made a really hard situation just a little bit easier to tolerate.

 

Dr. Ayla Wolf

Yeah, the other thing is that you have to travel for work as well, correct? And so there you also discovered there's a place.

 

Shane Swenson

I mean, so So fast forward to, you know, today, and Brady is still, you know, in a wheelchair, needing a lot of support, and he was going to school, but now he's, you know, essentially graduated, correct, yeah, and so, so now he's, he's at home full time. You have to travel for work, and so you guys have, have also discovered a place where, if both of you need to leave town, you and your wife that there's a place that can care for him called Crescent Cove as well. Yep, yeah, that actually, it was interesting how that came about. Jenny had a, I believe was a cousin that had passed away a couple years ago, and she was at her funeral. And I don't remember how the conversation came about. But somebody had told Jenny about this place called Crescent Cove. And we knew about it because it literally was probably about two miles away from where we lived in crystal for almost 20 years. We knew it was there. We didn't really know what it was, other than it was. It was marketed as a respite and end of life care for kids, which is very unique because this facility in the northwest part of Minneapolis is only one of three in the entire country. Oh, wow. And yeah. So we contacted them, you go through, I would say, kind of an interview process to make sure that, you know, it's a good fit for Crescent COVID, for Brady, and it's a place that we can bring Brady. We schedule time ahead of time. We get 15 nights of respite care a year at no charge, no cost to the families at all. It's all bait. It's all donor funded care. And it's, it's amazing, yeah, and for and for a family like us that, you know, we don't, we don't have a lot of PCAs, we don't have a lot of people that can come in and relieve us of our responsibility that we have with Brady. So when we get these opportunities, it's huge, because we can go away for a couple days, or three or four days, or whatever. It's not, usually, it's not a week or two weeks at a time, but it's just, you just get to step back from the daily, you know, grind, I guess, of life that that is he. He requires full time care. We can't just leave him at home for two hours and go out and grab lunch. It just that that doesn't work that for him. Yeah, he needs care all the time.

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Dr. Ayla Wolf

And you've also had to make a lot of modifications to your house, and so you've had to kind of work, you know, a lot with insurance companies as well, in terms of like getting equipment and getting approvals for things. And I know that has been a bit of a battle at times too, like even just getting the eye gaze device to try to help them with communicating via the eye gaze. Do you want to talk a little bit about kind of that process too, and the different things that you've had to kind of adjust, and it's always a challenge.

 

Shane Swenson 

You know, the the way that insurance companies view needs of of people is kind of incredible, because they're not the ones that are caring for him, and they have no idea what his needs are. It's based off of somebody what somebody else is telling them that he may or may not need. So it's, it's it's frustrating and it's challenging, but for the most part, it's really worked out pretty well. You know, the state of Minnesota has some really, really good programs out there that are available to families that have children with disabilities, that that help us. If insurance companies can't help out, depending on what the need or the ask is, they can step in and and help out financially as well, because it's a, you know, it's just not the trauma or the brain injury. I mean, it's a huge financial burden to families that have it's not just like Brady, it's families that have children or adults that have some type of disability. You know, it's we went, we tried, when Brady came home, to have a full time PCA and in our house, and it just didn't work. The best people that can care for them are myself and Jen and so, you know, she had a great career and just started a new job. Her future was going places, and she decided it was in her best interest and Brady's best interest to to quit working and and care for him full time. So you lose a lot. You don't just lose the child that you knew, or the life that you knew. There's so much more to it, yeah, and

 

Dr. Ayla Wolf  17:24

I sense from Jen to, I mean, she's, she's often talking about, you know, the Facebook groups that she's on and seeking out information. And, you know, the thing that really struck me from the beginning of meeting you two was just how dedicated she was to trying anything and everything under the sun to help Brady. And so that's been, you know, just inspiring to watch, you know, her endless search for trying to get him better. And I know that she's both of you have really also found that he struggled with some of the medications that that the doctors had recommended, and found that he actually responded really well to a lot of the natural therapies, you know, the the herbal the herbs, the supplements, the homeopathic remedies. Talk a little bit about that part of it, yeah.

 

Shane Swenson  18:14

So when, when you know he was in rehab, you talk with all kinds of doctors, right? And specialist, and we actually connected with a doctor at a Gillette that was, you know, he was more open to the idea of, you know, natural medications, not where, where a lot of the other doctors and surgeons, it's like, you know, their their path forward is, you know, medication, drugs, you know, whatever they can do to kind of manage a situation. And, you know, don't get me wrong, there were a lot of things that that Brady required. Otherwise he wouldn't have been alive, you know. So the we just saw as time went on, they were trying certain things, and his body would react to him, you know, things that like kids have been taking for years. Like I remember riddling was was something, and I can't remember why they had prescribed it for him. He just rejected it all like across the black he, we had, they had to take him off immediately because he had such an adverse effect to it. And, you know, so it's, it's been a slow progression, but it's been a couple years since Jenny, like, you know, she's been a pretty, she's a bulldog when it comes to this stuff. She, you know, she's reading, like you said on those groups, trying to find these things. And she found us a line of supplements that she really likes that offer certain things. So we were actually able to remove medications that he was taking to help him do just basic life function and replace it with a natural thing that did the same exact thing. It did the same, same thing, and it's non toxic. And that's as a parent, that's great, because you don't want to just, you know, that poor kid's liver is probably, you know, in really tough shape because of all the medication that he has to take. I mean, he still takes Keppra or levotric, tam four. For for seizures, which he does have from time to time, but that's really the only like true hard drug that he takes on a day to day basis. Everything else is natural remedies. It's pretty incredible. Yeah,

 

Dr. Ayla Wolf  20:12

yeah, it is. And then talk a little bit about the fundraiser that you started behalf of Brady, the golf tournament that happens every fall.

 

Shane Swenson  20:24

Yeah, yeah. So it became really apparent to us quickly after Brady's accident that the house that we lived in wasn't going to be adequate for him. And, you know, we had kind of look, been looking at moving a little bit here and there, but this really, like, we didn't have a choice, really like he just he didn't have any mobility in that house, so we ended up and we ended up building a new house and where we can have wider doorways and just a more open place for him to be. Along with that comes making new friends in the neighborhood. And with COVID, we got really close to people in this neighborhood, and I tell you, it's probably no different than a lot of other neighborhoods, but all the men in the neighborhood are, they're golf nuts, right? We like to golf. We like to get together. The first year we lived out here, we had a little neighborhood golf tournament that there's 16 of us, and one of the neighbors, I found out really kind of interesting. He's one of the founders of our foundation. His name is Rich Conley, and in talking and making small conversation with him, turns out he went to Sacred Heart School, just like Brady did years ago. They both played basketball, and they both wore the number 13, Brady's lucky number, and they also share the same birthday, October 13. So, oh, crazy, yeah, it was really, really crazy. And so in, just in talking with with rich, I'm like, Hey, is there something we could fun? We could do, you know, like, 13th place gets their entry feedback, or something like that. So that's and we made some hats, and, you know, with with Brady's name on it, and we did that for a couple years, and it was a lot of fun, and then rich, and I kind of got to talking, we're like, you know what? Maybe we should break this off from the neighborhood, and maybe we should, like, see if we can put a tournament together, and we can give money back to Sacred Heart. Sacred Hearts, a private Catholic school that requires tuition, and it's hard for some people to pay that tuition, even though they want to their children they have a Catholic education.

 

So we thought, hey, if we can get give back to them, that that'll ease somebody else's burden. We had kind of Jenny and I kind of flipped that switch from asking people for help all the time, and we got so much help, and people were just there for us emotionally. It like, you know how we talk about it's we, let's see what we can do to give back. Now, let's show our appreciation in this method. So the first year was 2022 we partnered with a golf course close in Maple Grove, Minnesota, and put on a golf tournament, made a ton of money and was able to donate a bunch of money, and everybody had a great time. Feedback was really good. So we did it again in 2023 again. It's just perfect. It was great. We had a good time, good turnout, able to raise a lot of money for Sacred Heart in between that year and this last year in 2024 that's when we partnered up with Crescent Cove. You know, we, Jenny and I had used Crescent COVID services. And this is just the coolest thing. It's privately funded. It doesn't cost us anything, which is great. The average daily stay cost $2,500 per kid. Wow. That's Brady needs a Brady needs a Brady needs a little bit more than that. He's $3,500 Wow. So that's, it's incredible that they can offer that at no charge to to families. It's, it's a gift. It's an absolute gift that we otherwise, I don't know if we'd be able to get out and and have any kind of normalcy in a marriage without it, to be able to just get away for a couple days, and it so in our thinking, we're like, you know what? Let's take this to the next level, right? Let's let's not stop. We got the momentum behind us. So last year, it's almost coming on a year now, we founded the Brady Finn foundation that supports Sacred Heart and crescent Cove. And so this is kind of our going on year two, as with our foundation, and we've got our tournament scheduled again for october 11 this year, and change a venue which we're really excited about that can help accommodate us a little bit better, I guess, for lack of better description. So yeah, and we're just, we're just getting started, you know, with some planning and, you know, certain things. And now we need people to sign up and get out there and come golf with us. Yeah, okay, where is the golf course that you're at this year? So it's called Pheasant Acres, which is in Corcoran, Minnesota, which is a neighbor of Maplewood. So it's right. If you're familiar with this area, we're physically in Maple Grove, Rogers, Corcoran area. So that's where we kind of keep it out. This way, beautiful golf course. It's I can actually see it from my backyard. If, on a good day, I can see across the where the golf course is. I love the play. It good staff. It's fun. They got a great number 13 hole, which is kind of our highlight, our feature hole, because Brady's favorite number was 13. So we incorporate that into everything that we do. The Golf Tournament is technically called the lucky Brady Swenson lucky 13 Golf Tournament that's put on every year. So, yeah, it's, it's a great event. I look forward to it every year.

 

Dr. Ayla Wolf  25:48

You do other things in addition to the tournament.

 

Shane Swenson  25:52

Yeah, you know, we're very fortunate that through channels that we have and people that we know, we're able to get some really great stuff from whether it be the Minnesota Twins or the Minnesota Timberwolves, the Minnesota Wild, the Vikings have given us stuff, and we have random people too that just say, hey, here's a golf set. Here you go. Go ahead and raffle it off. And we do silent auction. We do we do a raffle. We also do a 5050, if you're familiar with that, this is a fun thing. You know 50. We take 50% of the the proceeds that come in Cash Wise, and one lucky winner gets the other 50% of that. So the first year, we did $3,000 and somebody went away with 1500 bucks that day. So Wow. Yeah, we do a lot of different things. You know, it's, it's gonna be fun, excellent. Super Well, I will include the information in the show notes for how people can sign up. Is there a website that you have up right now, or as far as registration? Yeah, it's, it's lucky13 golf.net, great. I'll include that in the show notes. Yeah, there's great information out there too. As far as about the tournament, a little bit more on Brady's story, some pictures of him, some pictures of the golf tournament, past sponsors. So if you're just curious to see what we're all about and go and check it out.

 

Dr. Ayla Wolf  27:15

Yeah, well, I'm afraid I'm not a golfer. Otherwise, I'd sign up. I'll contribute to the the raffle. Uh, since I can't swing a club, how does that sound

 

Shane Swenson  27:26

perfect? We'll take everything we can get. Thank you. Well, is there

 

Dr. Ayla Wolf  27:29

anything else that we, you know, we haven't covered, or that you'd like to talk about in terms of just, you know, Brady's experience, I

 

Shane Swenson  27:36

really appreciate you having me on and and we had talked during one of these acupuncture sessions about when you when you have a foundation and a golf tournament, golf tournaments are a diamond dozen. They're all over the place. They're everybody does them. We're no different. It's not unique, but it's unique to our situation. But what we find really difficult is getting people outside of our umbrella of people that we know and that participate to pay attention to what we're doing. You know, there are so many of these, these golf tournaments that give to the American Cancer Society, or they give to die, you know, diabetes organizations, or research on this or that and the other thing, but we feel that what we're doing is no less important than any of that. And they're getting millions and millions and millions of dollars, you know, every year, and that's great, you know, I don't begrudge them for that. I would just trying to get the message out. That's the hardest thing. Is outreach, just to get somebody to listen, just to bend an ear and say, you know, what are you guys doing? Or take a moment look at Sacred Heart Catholic school. I could go on and on and on about not just about how they supported Brady, but how they supported our family. We have an older son, Jacob, who's 22 years old, went through that school. Jacob is on the autism spectrum, struggled in the public school more. So I think it was because they didn't have a lot of enough resources to help him. And so we took a I reached out to the principal at Sacred Heart. Her name was Karen Bursey, who has been a great asset to us in our in our foundation, and being a part of the golf tournament and getting the word out for us on the school side. And I just said, Hey, he was in the third grade. Can we see? Can we just try? Can we just see how it goes? And she said, Let's do it. And it was a struggle. It was hard. You know, children on the autism spectrum struggle in so many aspects, and academics. Was never Jacob's like strong suit. But he worked really hard. The school worked really, really hard to accommodate him with, like, a small percentage of the resources that a regular public school has. And he got through it and he he went on and had a very successful high school career. He. Cross Country. He was well respected. He was adored by his coaches and his teammates, and now he's at the University of Iowa, attending a special program called UI reach for for kids with intellectual disabilities that they go to this major university and they get a specialized education to help them be very productive people in life. And it's, it's no small miracle, honestly, that that Jacob's there, going through his his story, and just even now remembering how hard that was for him and us in the school. But that's where it all started, right? Sacred Heart. We have so much to be thankful for that we got connected to that community. And that community goes back to Jenny's family, like to the 30s, then 1930s so it's like this, the snowball effect that it's coming to a head. So, and I want to make sure that that kids that, and for families that can't afford that, that we're doing something to help them, and then also for the families that are in our situation, to help them get to Crescent COVID and and get that much needed respite that they, that they they deserve to have. So that's that's my biggest my biggest hurdle right now is just getting somebody to just really buy into what we're doing, you know, because it all takes us somebody that, to relay that message to somebody else, and then to the next person, and the next thing you know, you know, we we have a wide net cast, and we're and we're expanding. It's interesting, too. Thinking back, I was thinking this morning about as helping Brady get ready for his day. And one of the to me, one of the tragic parts of the whole story, is how Brady was definitely there for Jacob all the time, you know, helping him navigate through school or or just like hanging out with people or doing certain things and and then Brady has an accident, and all of a sudden that role gets reversed. So for the longest time when, when Brady first came home from rehab, Jacob was there like he was helping me transfer, getting him in and out of bed, getting him cleaned up, getting him dressed, getting him like he was there, like he would clean Brady's room. He would tidy it up, he would make his bed. And that that role just kind of just flipped, like on a dime. It was just amazing to see that. I mean, I didn't have to ask it. It was just a very fluid thing that he would just All right, it's time to get pretty ready for bed. Let's do it. And it's awesome when you think back about that. It's just a little things like that that that that make a really tough situation, just a little bit easier to tolerate. Yeah? Well, just really incredible when you see people rise to the challenge and, yeah, take it on and do the hard work. Yeah, yeah, he definitely. He was one of them. I mean, I just, I can't even remember, you know, the unfortunate thing of of trauma is that I forget a lot of the stuff that that we've gone through. You know, I used to have a memory that I can remember anything, and now it's a struggle, just because I'm more concerned about my focus is on Brady and what his day is. And I forget about something like that I was he had in Brady's room, there's a little, a little picture that Jacob had drawn, I think, right after he got hurt, because Jacob was 15 at the time, and it said, on there a couple of stick people, and it said Best Friends Forever on there. And that's what triggered that. That's what triggered that memory. As I was like, Oh my God, that's right, I forgot about how he and in when I was telling you about how he Brady was on Cefapine antibiotic with the pick line that he had, you would have to take these little balls, like the size of a racquetball or tennis ball, and they had to refrigerate them, but you had to take them out an hour before you administered them. And so we were on like, I don't know what time. I can't remember what the times, but Jacob would actually get up in the morning and at four o'clock in the morning, come upstairs, grab one of those little balls, put on the countertop, and then go to bed. So we Jenny and I could sleep. So we could just, I mean, yeah, I mean, it just the little things, right? And he did for two, two months, without question, like, without question, yeah. So, yeah, it takes, it takes everybody you know. And he definitely stepped up to the challenge, and I'm not surprised now, looking at how he's doing, he's just about ready to finish up his first year he comes home next weekend, and how he's excelled, and you know, his future, his sky's the limit, my opinion,

 

Dr. Ayla Wolf  34:36

yeah, no, I was, I was so happy to hear that he got that scholarship and was able to do that program because it sounds, Yeah, amazing, and like he's been able to make a lot of friends, and, you know, take part in all kinds of cool activities. And yeah, sounds really cool. I

 

Shane Swenson  34:51

think he's actually kind of dreading coming home, which is when he left, I think he was like, What did I get myself into? Can I really do this? And now at the end of the year, he's like, I'm kind of bummed. Out that I'm having to come home. What a change. I mean, yeah, so Yeah, but he's very excited to go back in the fall already so well. And I just think it's so amazing with everything you've been through, that you're taking that experience and you're saying, How can we give back to all the people who supported us? So I think that's incredible, and I hope I can help in spreading, spreading the word about the tournament and the fundraiser. I will be happy to put all of these kind of contacts in the show notes. And I said, Try to spread the word and help promote your tournament, Brady's tournament, and try to help make that a big success for you all. Yeah, I appreciate it. Thank you so much. Yeah, thanks for coming on the show and sharing your story and Brady's story anytime you.