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Alex worked as a lumberjack on Kodiak Island in Alaska. He made his money one swing at a time. As a tree fell, he split it into logs ready to sell by the cord. Not even a machine could match his skill. Then, on a snowy afternoon, it all changed. Alone at a job site, he slipped and plummeted headfirst into a ravine: skull shattered, blood covered the ground, and shock set in. He lost consciousness.
He was lucky; Troop 229 found his lifeless body on their routine camping trip. They radioed a ranger station and reported the emergency. The director on duty had him airlifted to a nearby trauma center. The surgeons repaired his fractured cranium, but the nerves in the occipital and temporal lobes suffered extensive trauma. They tried every technique known to man, but Alexβs vision and hearing would never return to normal.
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