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In a blink of an eye, things can change .....And just like that my life has changed. Overnight I went from a perfectly healthy 42 year old with no medical problems and not a care in the world, to a person who now lives in constant pain and lives with the realization that I will no longer be able to do many of the things I love to do the most. The injury was so subtle, and so quick, I thought there was no way it could be anything so serious. I was working out, rather strenously, and doing some reverse grip pull ups at the end of my work out. I was fatigued, but determined to get my all of my reps in. I then did, what I thought was straining the muscles of my back/shoulder.

It was only after 3 weeks of extreme pain, and then waking up one morning with my left arm paralyzed, that I found out that I severely herniated 2 discs in cervical spine. On a scale of 1-10, these herniations are 10's. They are completely occupying the space where my nerve roots exit my spinal column to innervate my left upper extremity.

I am podiatrist who makes a living specializing in complex reconstructive foot and ankle surgeries. My first concern was and is my livelihood. Luckily, after 2 spinal injections, the full motion has returned to my left arm, but it is wracked with constant nerve pain. I am able to do my cases for now, but do them while in pain..

I don't write this post to garner sympathy from fellow 6speeders. My first purpose is to remind all of you what a great blessing health is. You take it for granted until it's YOUR health that is in question. I've been told that I will need to give up tracking. I've also been told that I shouldn't drive any of my Porsches period until I have surgery to repair my neck. The risk for furthur nerve damage is too great.

Even if I am able to return to driving Porsches after my surgery, it would never be at the speeds and G's that I am used to pulling. So now, I am faced with another decision that I never thought I'd face, should I sell my GT3?

For those who know me, you know this is a very unique widebody GT3. It really does have over $250K wrapped up in it. I had planned to own it forever. I have tracked this car about 12 times and had hoped to do so for another few hundred. The reality is, I may never track again. The secondary reality is, that I will be out of work for a while when I have my surgery. Thank god I have my disability with NWML because they help a bunch. Nonetheless, I will need extra cash on hand during that time, and I cannot justify letting my car just sit and depreciate in my garage when I can't use it.

So, here I am, supposed to be writing up my "for sale" ad, but am finding myself unable to do so. I'm kinda like this with any car I sell, but this car is different, and the circumstances behind the sale are different as they are not under my control.

My car has 10,400 miles and is in excellent condition. I don't know what I should even try to get for it in this market and economy, but as you may guess, I'm not planning on giving it away either. I hope to get something the around $120K for her, but who knows? It depends if someone out there really wants this car as much as I did.

So until I can get my ad together, here are a couple of pictures of her for you all to enjoy.

Dan

a lot more pictures and information about her in this thread (since then I've added the Sharkwerks exhaust) :


RSR styled widebody 997 GT3 (lots of pics!)


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ormural022.jpg



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...y/1205ecc6.jpg


and my avatar.....http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/sr...lies/frown.gif


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...y/baef02b9.jpg

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