In September 2007, Mark Winegarden damaged his vertebrae while working as a paramedic in Simcoe County. Attending an emergency call, he had to carry a cardiac-arrest patient down the staircase of his home when he felt a ‘pop in his back.’ His life would never be the same.
“The surgery itself worked out okay but there were complications. It’s basically a mass of scar tissue at the back of my spine,” Winegarden says.
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