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The Stamper Family
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One morning a few months back, I was at a sales planning meeting in Texas. We had rented a beautiful resort on Possum Kingdom Lake. I sat with several friends and employees around a fire pit for most of the night with a big bottle of bourbon and a whole lot of stories, most of them probably untrue. The next morning, I woke up with a crick in my neck. As the day went on, pain began to radiate down my arm. I returned from my trip and for the next several days, it continued to worsen. After a few trips to the spine hospital in Tulsa, it was determined they needed to do surgery, and quickly. They had to go in through my throat to
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fix my neck and arm. It’s not as intrusive as it sounds, but it’s still a little unnerving to have an inch-and-a-half cut in your throat, right beside your Adam’s apple. I was sore for a week or so, and my voice sounded like Carl from Sling Blade, but other than that, it was a total success and took all my pain away almost immediately.
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