The LECS project
15 surgeries and the solution didn't exist. So momma invented it. Join me in a massive movement of people who have a passion to help people.
When our son was born with Spina Bifida, our world took a different turn than what we were expecting. Levi has had 15 surgeries in his 4 years. The majority of his surgeries have been urology surgeries where he's had to use a foley catheter post surgery. When he had his mitrofanoff surgery, he would get debilitating bladder spasms. Like the kind that hospitalized him for an additional 10 days. I c
After posting about wanting to raise money for presents for parents in hospitals, SO MANY PEOPLE donated money and wanted to help me. Today, Zakary, Levi, Tilly and I went shopping with the $600 we raised for everything we could think of that would put smiles on the faces of parents and caregivers at Children’s Hospitals. We got warm socks, slippers, stocking hats, fleece blankets, tooth brushes, lotions, make up remover wipes and lots of candy canes! We pray that when these gifts are received, they bring a sense of relief and come as a reminder that even though these parents are away from home over Christmas, they are cared for and seen by people that don’t know them. We help because there have been so many times when we’ve needed help. Spread love, bring joy and pay it forward.
I've been thinking back over the last 7 Decembers I've had with Levi and almost every single one, we've been in the hospital for some reason or another. If you are going to have to be in the hospital, Christmas time is the most fun time of year to be admitted. So many people donate gifts for the kids! Some kids are there for a day or two, some kids are there for weeks or months, some kids will be there indefinitely. Gifts from generous people, life their spirits and make laying in a hospital bed, getting treatments more bearable. It was incredible to watch Levi's face light up whenever he was presented with a gift.
But as I am sitting here thinking about those times, I'm remembering how difficult it was as a parent. Food isn't provided. I had to be away from my other kids making decisions I felt so ill equipped to make. I hardly slept because even though Children's hospital has phenomenal accommodations, sleeping in a pull out chair or couch wasn't awesome and I woke up every 4 hours right along with Levi for vitals and meds. I remember running out of toiletries, being hungry but not having time to get down to the cafeteria and feeling so far away from home.
When I was in it, I didn't even think about it. I just did what I needed to do and I was thankful for what we had. But now looking back and sitting on my own bed as I write this, I'm thinking of all the mommas and dads who are in the position I've been in so many times. I'm thinking of them as they are desperately trying to hold it together without enough sleep and acting as strong as they can so their little one doesn't see their fear. Now that I'm not in that position this December, I want to do som**hing for them.
Levity Products has always said from the beginning that we are a company that has the patient and patient care givers in mind. We aren't the engineers, the doctors, the big companies....we are the moms and dads just trying to make life better for our kids. So for this Christmas, I want to take care of my people. I know that the kids are well loved on with gifts. Today, I'm going to ask you if you will join me in making sure the moms and dads are loved on too.
From now until Wednesday at noon, I'm asking if anyone wants to help me by donating a few bucks so that my team and I can go get all the things that a parent who is sacrificing for their child in the hospital would want. Once we have raised the money, we would take every penny to shop for them and deliver gifts to hospital rooms for well deserved parents.
Our gofundme page is linked on this post. Donate and comment with ideas of presents you think we should consider when we shop for them! Thank you for helping us, help them. As a company, this is our battle cry: To give, to love, to remember, and to actively help make the lives of those who suffer, BETTER.
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of those who can overcome it."
-Helen Keller
Click here to support The LECS Project organized by Sarah Lynn Olson Sarah Lynn Olson The LECS Project In 2012, my middle son, Levi (7), was born with Spina Bifida. Spina bifida is a spine defect where the spinal chord fails to
Human trials for all three of my devices started two weeks ago! I've received pictures and a few updates from my manager of the protocols and I've got to tell you....seeing my devices on human beings feels like a dream. I cannot believe it! We are so close to the end of validation where we will have every piece of verifying documentation along with FDA approval and a publication in a medical journal.
Three years ago, this month, I was floundering for any ideas or possible ways to get this done. I was told it would take me around 10 years and around $7-$10 million dollars to complete. I was told I was crazy. I was told I was like a ferret on m**h. I was told I was off my rocker or had lost my mind more times than I can count through this process. I was told it was impossible for someone like me to accomplish what I had set out to do, because no one had ever done it before. I have been so beaten down and laughed at so many times.
But mama is STILL HERE. And I'm not going anywhere. Not now, not then, not ever....because I was given a mission to complete and for the love of ALL that is good, I will FINISH.
I want to go back to the man that laughed at me called me a ferret on m**h. I want to video an interaction with that guy where I get to place all three of my devices on his desk and then remind him of the story where he called me a ferret on m**h and told me I was stupidly passionate. I want to video me telling him thank you for calling me that. Without that day, I honestly don't know if I'd be here. The fire was already lit, but he poured gasoline all over that sucker and raged a forest fire in me. I want to capture his face when he picks up my devices and hears how far the ferret on m**h has gotten and that we are only a few months away from completion. I have been waiting and waiting to go back to him, but I wanted to go back when I could say the words "fully funded". We are SO flipping close. SO FLIPPING CLOSE!! If you are able to help me out, would you? It's crazy how a few dollars from a lot of people can add up. I just cannot wait to go back and thank that guy. Because yes sir, I AM a Ferret on M**h and I AM passionate and I WILL FINISH THE RACE that you, along with so many others, told me was impossible.
To those who stuck by me and decided to support me and encourage me along the way...thank you from the bottom of my heart. I wish you could have known how many voices there were to try to stop me, but I decided to let your voices be louder. You were my backbone in so many moments along this journey. I've saved your messages and I read them over and over. Thank you for being my heroes.
All my love and all my best,
Sarah
aka Ferret on M**h
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Click here to support The LECS Project organized by Sarah Lynn Olson Sarah Lynn Olson The LECS Project In 2012, my middle son, Levi (7), was born with Spina Bifida. Spina bifida is a spine defect where the spinal chord fails to
“Hey Sarah, we discovered another way the LECS could help people, except it’ll need a few changes and will have other purposes. It could help a whole different group of people. You think you could work on inventing som**hing that could fit?”
“Child, please. You’ll never have to ask me that question. I’m on it.”
LECS 1, LECS 2 and LECS 3 are entering human trials in two weeks and expected to be completely finished with every validation needed to get into hospitals all over the world within a year.
LECS 4.....comin in hot 🔥
Know anyone that suffers with cancer and needs chemo?
Yeah, us too. They suffer enough. We thought it’d be cool to help. Even if it makes life 1% better, we’re in.
Meet my Chief Operating Officer, Erica!
Erica has been working with me for almost two years and I will tell you that if it wasn’t for her, I’m not sure where Levity Products would be. She is the reason I still have my sanity and a well-oiled machine of a business. While I have the vision to invent and the ability to see big picture and lead us there, all of that would mean NOTHING if I didn’t have my right hand woman keeping me in order. Details are not my strong suit and neither is the day to day management. She handles everything that needs to be done like a boss. Erica sees and feels my vision for the company and shares my passion for making an impact on the world. I’m like the Tasmanian devil who blows through with ideas and dreams and passion and she is the one to translate my ramblings to make everything possible. She is an extremely gifted leader and has specialties in production and writing. She’s my perfect counterpart. I consider myself ridiculously lucky to have one of my very best friends as a business partner. We can switch modes between friends and business on a dime and keep business and personal very separate which, I know, is extremely rare.
My favorite part of working with Erica is that I can cast a vision that’s intense, wildly over my head and a bit daunting and while the majority of people think I’m nuts, she’s the first one to say, “I’m in! Let’s get started.” She may think I’m crazy for some of the things I come up with, but she’s always incredibly supportive and never leaves my side.
Erica, thank you for hanging with me and having my back. You are the mint to my dark chocolate 😉. I could not do any of this without you.
I remember back in the very beginning of the LECS, I set up a Youcaring donation page and hundreds of you gave to this project to get it up and running. Some gave $5, some gave $100, some gave much more, but every single dollar amount meant the world to me. It meant that I had people who believed in me and loved my son. Because back then, it was mostly about Levi. We raised almost $20k in a matter of months and that allowed me to secure a patent and start the process of clinical validation.
Goodness, how times have changed in the last two years. 2 YEARS! I was told in the beginning to expect the validation process to take 5-10 years and to expect to have to raise between $5-$7 million dollars to do what I wanted to do. Sometimes I look back and I wonder how I said, "yeah, I can totally do that." I'm glad I didn't know then what I know now, because I honestly don't know if I would have said yes! It has not been easy, BUT...I will tell you....yes, it took a lot of guts to take the first step, but it was easier with the amount of support that I felt. The people that have stepped up and leaned into what we are doing are the reason we are where we are.
So many of you have written to me in the past couple of months and asked how to support The LECS Project financially like you could in the beginning days. Not everyone has the means to be an investor, but what I've heard is that you still want to give and be a part. I'm telling you, the $5 donations are just as important as the $100k investments. Being a part of som**hing bigger is what this is about. It's about being a part of a story that you can say you had your hand in. It's about som**hing that can outlive you when you might not have the capacity to start som**hing yourself. I get that. I see that. I love that.
We set up our donation page again through GoFundMe for those that fit into that category. We want you with us no matter what dollar amount. There is so much that has to be done and it all costs money. I remember we did a raise at the beginning just asking people for $5 each. Because of that raise, we raised thousands of dollars that helped secure the very first patent and it protected us from a large company who was trying to take the idea of the LECS and steal it. See?!? Every little amount helps. Because it's not about 1 of us or even a few. It's STILL about an army of us that believe in som**hing bigger and helping the greater good of those who suffer unnecessarily.
Human trials are set to start at the very beginning August. We've successfully completed everything else. Here we go. We need you now more than ever.
Love to each of you,
Sarah
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Click here to support The LECS Project organized by Sarah Lynn Olson In 2012, my middle son, Levi (7), was born with Spina Bifida. Spina bifida is a spine defect where the spinal chord fails to develop properly. In Levi’s seven years of life, he has had 17 surgeries! In 2016, he had 9 of those surgeries. It was a brutal year for all of us. Levi endured a lot of pa....
Two days ago, I wrote a post about how somebody told me I couldn’t do som**hing. I didn’t specify that the “som**hing” I couldn’t do was raise a large amount of money in two weeks time for the final stages of prototyping for the LECS. When I say large, think of a number and then times it by 5. That’s probably more accurate of a number we are talkin.
I heard the words “impossible”, “in over your head”, and a “good luck” that went along with an eye roll and condescending head shake.....
But you know what....in a way they are right. There’s no rational, human explanation of why someone like me should be doing what I’m doing.
But that’s the point. It’s EXACTLY the point.
Take one look at me and hear what I have to accomplish to be able to take a medical device to market and you will understand why the stern warnings people give me about continuing on make complete sense. They are probably just trying to be helpful because I probably look a little crazy trying to do what I’m doing.
But this isn’t human. It’s NOT.
Full disclaimer, life has been intense lately. It’s been distracting and all consuming. Doing what I needed to do to raise this money in a short amount of time made me feel more than not good enough and completely overwhelmed. Sometimes, it doesn’t always have to be someone else telling you that you can’t do som**hing, because the voice in our own heads are way louder and way more convincing than the voices outside. But I was ready to press on regardless because I’m stubborn and I love risk.
But instead, the God who designed the LECS, the Savior who cares about the kids like Levi, and the all-knowing and all-powerful God that knows the beginning and the end told me to sit down, chill and listen.
He said, “Hey Sarah? I see you. You know what you feel is impossible and daunting? Well, it’s not to Me. Not even a little bit. I want you to sit down and wait. Just wait. I’m gonna show you what I can do through the people I’ve chosen to step up and help because I’ve chosen to bless them in advance. Sit down, wait and watch.”
Waiting and watching are NOT the comfortable things to do when there is a massive task in front of you and a very short amount of time to get it done in.
But I’m happy to report that what needed to be raised in two weeks to finish prototyping for human trials was raised in two DAYS. And it was raised all while I sat here and waited and watched my Father come through on His promise to me.
All glory to Him and not this feisty, stubborn momma. All praise and adoration to the God who never breaks His promises. He deserves the credit for every piece of every part that’s been accomplished. Not me.
Also...a massive and incredible thank you to my Levity team who continues to have my back even when what I decide doesn’t always make sense to you. I’ve surrounded myself with people that are billions times better than me. You deserve so much more than I’ll ever be able to give you.
And thank you to every investor who has blessed because you are blessed. You will go down in history as world changers who left your mark on a planet that needs you to do exactly what you’ve done. You are all heroes.
As many of my investors know, we had a two month delay in human trials because my amazing patent attorney found some potential problems with the possibility of infringing on another patent. The words that were said to me were, “we could continue on and hope that nothing happens later, or we could delay and add more cost which would also mean we don’t finish at the time we thought.”
Decisions. Do we continue on and pray that nothing happens even if there’s a slim chance that som**hing happens? Or do we stop, make adjustments, push the finish time back, and tack on more expenses that could be well into the tens of thousands just because som**hing MIGHT happen later?
Easy answer. We stop. We do this right. We work harder. We raise more money. We stay focused on integrity and character of the company. We focus on the faces that we need to help who are praying for answers. We forget about the fastest finish time. We forget about the challenges that come with delays. We do things right.
Every. Single. Time.
Happy 7th birthday to the reason for my fight. We love you, Levi Matthew!
UPDATE ON LEVI: (for those that saw my post yesterday)
Levi is in his sedated MRI right now. Usually he deals with lots of fear, crying and anger with the sedation m**hods. With Zakary’s invention today, there was NO FEAR! Levi was literally laughing as he drifted off to sleep! The doc said, “I’ve never seen this before and it’s BRILLIANT! You should patent this idea!”
Heard that before 😊. Like momma like son. That’s my boy! I’m so flipping proud!! I cannot wait to tell him!
Two years ago, I started Levity Products with one idea/invention: The LECS. It was developed to help ease the pain my son, Levi, was in from a Foley Catheter.
Fast forward to today, Levity Products is a company that now has 3 devices with 2 more in the beginning stages of development. We are building a medical device company that is focused on patients and patient caregivers. Why? Because Levi is a patient and I’m his caregiver. We KNOW what it’s like to need solutions and not have them. We KNOW there are many more patients and their caregivers with problems they wish they could solve. They are desperate for help and we want to be their hope.
Someday very soon, we will be hosting brainstorming sessions for those that also have issues they would like to see solved. I’m excited to empower patients and their families to be a part of solutions instead of having to be at the mercy of large medical device companies to come up with solutions for them. Levity Products is focused on being a company who gets in the trenches with patients and their families to provide hope. It’s extremely important to us to create solutions to ease the lives of those that need help most. If you’d like to be a part of a discussion/brainstorming group in the future, message me privately.
With that said, there’s someone else in my house that’s just as close to the intensity of spina bifida. He shares a room with Levi and grows up right along side him. He hears the screams and witness the fear and agony Levi goes through. While he might not go through it physically in the same way, it’s traumatic for him too. So today, after discussing a hospital visit Levi will have tomorrow and the things he will have to do, Zakary blurts out, “MOM! I think I have an idea that could make it less scary for Levi!” And out comes his idea. After asking lots of leading questions to help him develop it in his head and put it to words, Zakary invented a concept that will be Levity Products 6th project. And let me tell you, it’s GOOD 😁. Zakary gets it. He needs solutions too! He needs life to be easier just like all families of patients. We must work together to accomplish this.
Together, we will elevate peace and well being both in hospitals and the homes of those that need us most.
Everything we do, we do it for the little faces who’s lives deserve to be more pain free. Money is cool. Success is cool. Breaking records and making history.....cool.
But this little face means more to me than all those other things times a million. His face and the other faces I see in my mind of the kids around the world. Kids of all colors, with different languages, with different cultures, but kids who all suffer the same.
They drive me. There’s a burning fire in my heart for them. I will fight for them until Jesus takes me off this planet. Lots of people ask me what I’ll do when the LECS sells.
That’s easy. I’ll keep going. And then I’ll go again. And then again. Posting this picture is to remind everyone who has asked me what pretty things I’ll buy when the LECS is completed what I feel about that question. I don’t see dollar signs. I see faces.
After biocompatibility testing was completed for the LECS, I was told there were three approval committees we needed to pass through to solidify human trials at the hospital we’ve been working with.
The first one we passed through. We had some revisions to make, but we passed. After we passed that one, I found out that the second committee is nearly impossible to pass through the first time or sometimes at all. And that isn’t for some chick from Minnesota who is helping her kid, that’s for medical device companies that are established, have credibility and do this all the time. Before this approval, there is about a 30% chance of making it. After this approval, there’s a 95% chance of making it. This approval is EVERYTHING. I anticipated the day the committee met about my device with insane anxiety and fear. I have so much on the line. So many people have invested in me, believed in me, given money to me and have followed me. My reputation, my name, my credibility and my mission was riding on the day this committee met. I was told the chances of us passing the first time or at all was almost nothing.
Now pause for a minute.
What would you do? If you were me and made all the final decisions and knew that hundreds of thousands of dollars of other people’s money and your entire reputation was on the line and the odds were SEVERELY stacked against you, what would you do?
My heart was probably 120 beats a minute non stop for the week leading up to this day. I hardly slept. I cried, I prayed, I begged and I decided to hide it all in my heart and not let anyone know. I wanted to carry the weight of this burden. Just Jesus and I. I have known without a shadow of a doubt that we would finish from the moment we started, but the fear of “what if I’m wrong” was enough to make me want to throw up. Especially in the wake of constant criticism and discouragement along the way. “Who do you think you are, Sarah.” If only I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard that. Scary stuff. I mean, SCARY stuff. My life, my name and the huge responsibility to lots of investors is riding on a project that should be impossible for me to complete.
Un-pause.
The day came. I could hardly think straight. I probably wasn’t the nicest mommy and my conversations with Jesus were a little, “don’t You dare let me down”, like I deserved to have the God of the universe answer to me. Ha!
Then my phone rang. Frank’s name popped up on my screen and my whole body went numb. I was scared out of my mind to answer, but I took a deep breath knowing that I was probably going to get a, “sorry Sarah. We knew this would happen. We need a plan B.” type conversation.
“Frank. Give it to me straight. Just say it. Don’t protect my emotions. Just say it.”
“Sarah. I have never in my whole life been a part of som**hing like this. Get on your knees for you stand on holy ground. The Almighty God sees you. He’s using you. He’s doing the impossible through you. There is absolutely no other explanation for it because what has happened today isn’t som**hing I’ve ever been apart of or witnessed before. You passed. Sarah, you passed three protocols through the committee that doesn’t pass three protocols. This doesn’t happen. It doesn’t happen for medical device companies let alone a mother from Minnesota. This was everything. You are making history.”
I literally fell to the floor and sobbed. I could hardly gain control of my breathing. The pressure, the fear and the weight that comes with following the voice in my head and my heart was taken off my shoulders. I felt like I was picked up and placed on the lap of Jesus as He whispered, “I told you so” in my ear.
Say it with me, “For NOTHING is impossible with God!” He can take a boy and a sling shot to kill a giant. He can take a stuttering, scared man and free an entire nation out of Egypt. He can take one man and 120 years to build an arc to preserve mankind from a flood when rain wasn’t even a thing yet. If He can do all those things and accomplish all that He has, why not this? If He can do this, why not you? What are you being called to that’s scary and big, but your gut is telling you to move? Say yes to it. Try it. Say yes and move.
2019 will be a year of many more trials and fear and anxiety, but we will anticipate it, prepare for it and march into battle stronger than we were in 2018.
I’m ready. I’m so ready.
MERRY CHRISTMAS from the Levity team!! ❤️❤️. May we be reminded of the goodness and faithfulness and undying love of our Savior who came as one of us to relate to us and to love us.
May 2019 bring new beginnings, new lessons and a fresh perspective on your purpose driven journey. We love and appreciate you all.
I can’t stop staring at it. I literally carried it around with me all day 😂. UNITED STATES PATENT! 2 1/2 years in the making and it’s finally here! 1 down, MANY more to go. We aren’t done. We are just getting started.
Quick update:
With a stoma revision surgery like Levi had almost three weeks ago, a Foley catheter is usually placed and kept in the stoma for about 3-4 weeks until the stoma heals. For Levi, those 3-4 weeks were HELL. Because of the Foley, he suffered from infections, insane bladder spasms, was on medications like dilauded and Va**um and had lots of doctor/hospital visits.
This time, instead of the Foley, we used the LECS as most of you know. I’m so incredibly happy to report that the LECS was on for a total of one week and three days and then removed. His stoma is completely healed and it’s wide open like it’s never been before. Zero infection. Zero bladder spasms. Zero pain. We even got to cancel his post op because he was doing so well. 😊
I’d say we accomplished what we set out to do 😁. All praise and glory goes the the actual Inventor. For we are merely pawns in His grand story. What an honor it is.
Whether it’s a person or a Foley catheter.....Mamas, am I right?
One of my biggest dreams since I was a kid came true today. *happy tears* 😢😊
We have worked so dang hard and been to hell and back in so many ways, but Jesus has been so faithful to us as this mission continues on.
This one deserved our voices and not a text post. Please watch.....😁😁
Levi has his 17th surgery today. It’s the first time that the LECS will be used on a human body for surgery in its finished form.
This is it. The moment we’ve been waiting for. Is it all we believe it is? It’s one thing to use the device in every day life. It’s a completely different deal to use it on a vulnerable body after surgery. It was because of surgeries like these that I created the LECS. If I hadn’t created it, we would be going home with a foley implanted in Levi’s bladder and a whole lot of pain killers and antibiotics. Today, it’s just the LECS and our faith.
I’ll keep you posted. It’s go time.
To start testing on humans at the research hospital, we have to pass through three investigation advisory boards. They meet once a month, so if we don’t pass the first time and have to make any fixes, it sets us back a whole month. We just had our first presentation in front of the first board and we PASSED! One down, two to go. I’ve heard to not get my hopes too high for the next board presentation because 99% of the time, devices don’t pass the first time. We’ve even allotted extra time for this to happen, but you know me....the 1% is my jam. 😉
We’ll see. I’ll keep you posted!
Throughout this whole project, I have made it pretty well known who my faith is in and that this was not my idea. It was given to me like a lightning bolt straight from heaven. I’m not sure what everyone who reads this believes, but it’s my story so I get to be the one who says where it came from. I cannot take credit or glory for any piece of this. My only claim in this is saying yes to a divine mission and continuing to say yes no matter what fear or risk may arise.
So many people have said, “how cool to be chosen. I wish I could be chosen for som**hing like that.”
Ah hem....
It’s about to get real now, so I’d encourage you to stop reading now if you’re not into that.
#1.
Every single one of us was chosen for som**hing. Want proof? Put your hand over the left side of your chest. Feel that beat? You’re still here. You wouldn’t be if you had no purpose or if you weren’t chosen for som**hing. Quit getting sucked into the high light reel of this or any other story and stop diminishing your own. STEP UP. We need you, dammit.
#2.
Speaking of the high light reel....
Let me tell you som**hing...left to myself, I would have quit this story a long time ago. When I said yes to Jesus, I immediately made myself an imminent threat and an enemy to God’s enemies. Life has gotten pretty messed up. This has been the absolute hardest task of my life. I have been broken down and destroyed in ways that I thought only existed in the movies. This is not a highlight reel. This is HARD. It hurts in ways I’ve never hurt before. It has felt so suffocating that I thought I’d lose my life. When I say that I keep saying yes, I am not just saying yes to the beauty that you’ve seen on Facebook. I’m saying yes to constant discouragement and pain.
Here’s my highlight reel for you today:
-I discovered that my bag that contained everything I need on a daily basis and key things I needed for this project, was stolen out of my car. It had everything. My business cards and every card I have gathered over the last two years of contacts that I desperately needed are gone. That bag had over $200 worth of stuff in it and personal things that can never be replaced.
-I’ve been waiting for very important phone calls for awhile now and guess which features of my phone decided to just stop working? My calls and texts. I cannot see when any calls or texts are coming in. The Apple tech had no idea why. I missed all the phone calls I was waiting for.
-I was at a store replacing some of the things that were stolen and this random stranger started harassing me for no reason. He just followed me around telling me how terrible and disgusting I was. He even parked next to me and laid on his horn while following me. He looked at me and I swear his pupils were red.
And this was just today. I’m two years in to the type of stories that would make someone think they are living in The Truman Show. I could write a book of the insanity of the last two years, but this is what I expected and I don’t expect it to get easier. You want to be chosen for a specific task? Then you better get your game face on because you will be attacked from every angel and terrorized until you feel like you’re going to lose your mind. It’s not all fun and games, so be ready for what you wish for. Once again, when you willingly say yes to Jesus, you willingly step into battle as a direct enemy of His enemies. Buckle up.
*I hope by now, big boy, that you’ve figured out that it’s gonna take everything you’ve got to take me down. I might be crawling and barely breathing by the time you’re done with me, but MAKE NO MISTAKE I will not lose to you. You will NOT win this one. Scare me, terrorize me, take from me, cripple me....you’ve met your match, you as***le.
See you at the finish line.