Hi my name is Rob, founder of Stuck A Nerve. I’m not the type of person to ever want attention on me or to really open up about what I’m going through in general. I’ve always been the type of person who when seeing a problem immediately gets to work on how to solve it. I founded Struck A Nerve for this reason.

On August 16th, 2021 I was in a nearly fatal motorcycle accident that left me hospitalized for two months and essentially bedridden at home for another seven. I shattered my right femur in three places also being an open fracture. I was told that with how severe the injury was I could never run long distances again. I shattered my left wrist with such severity that my surgeon told me it was one of the worst ways to break a wrist and would be surprised if I could ever bear significant weight into it. The bones in my right hand were shattered, my collarbone broken and dislocated. I also broke multiple vertebrae, and endured severe nerve injures to six of my nerves. Three out of the six nerves were fully avulsed. That’s just to name a few of my injuries.

The aftermath of the injuries has been a long and brutal journey. To this day, I am still recovering and have days where I’m left in unbearable pain. I’m often still woken up from the pain of multiple of my ongoing injuries. Immediately after my accident, my left arm was useless, I wasn’t able to walk or even bend my right leg. My entire right upper extremity from my back, shoulder, arm, wrist, and hand were all completely paralyzed. My world had been turned upside down within the blink of an eye. However, I knew that to handle the stress and severity of this situation, I had to remain positive. I kept a smile everyday and worked as hard as I could to recover. I taught myself how to walk, and did countless hours of physical therapy, working as hard as I could to improve.

It was through countless hours of hard work, being disciplined with physical therapy and the constant pursuit of recovery, I was able to overcome / improve from most of my physical injuries. However, I’m still recovering from some on-going issues, one of them being my recovering nerve injuries.

Raising money for Nerve regeneration research is important to me because I want to help make an impact on nerve research and help others suffering with different nerve injuries. With modern advancements in medical technology comes hope in the discovery of potential treatments I hope to help donate the funds I raise to the UCONN Neuroregeneration Laboratory through a variety of athletic fundraisers to show others that anything is possible.

Prior to my accident, I was in incredible shape. One of my biggest passions being physical fitness, I haven’t let any of my injuries prevent me from pursing that love. Which is why for our fundraising events, I would like to bringing people together for active events.

It is through this passion that I am challenged myself to complete an IRONMAN despite only having use of one arm. In less than one year of training since my doctors gave me the green light to begin running again. This was an incredibly difficult task of teaching myself how to swim, bike, and run with just one arm. However I was able to prove all of the “experts” wrong. I am now training to complete a 100 mile race. No matter what the “experts” thinks you won’t be able to do something you need to push yourself beyond what you think is possible to show that nothing can hold you back if you don’t let it.