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Chapter 1: Who is Jeremy Renner and what is his recent journey?
Boy, what a journey you've been on.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I started listening to your audio book. It was giving me anxiety.
It gets better, right? It takes a minute, but there's a relief for the reader.
Well, the relief is seeing you healthy and walking around.
Well, the relief is also you kind of know the end of the story before you go into it. So then you can really kind of dive into the actual...
detailed narrative that i put out yeah there's no other way to do it but um but yeah it's it's tough for a minute it's like i was like wow my sister it took her a while to read and anybody that was kind of involved in the incident takes a minute you know it took me a long time to kind of get through it right yeah it's anxious for me too so how long was the actual recovery because you don't even walk with a limp
Yeah, yeah. Some things are pretty miraculous. Some things can be explained. And I tried to figure it out as I was writing the book. A lot of people ask questions. I ask myself questions. Some things were on my own will. Some things were otherworldly of some sort. But yeah, I was supposed to walk with a limp because pretty much a lot of titanium. And then it was certainly not running.
And I'm doing far beyond all those things. I don't know exactly why. I can pontificate on why. What do you think of it? I think it's – will is a really special thing. And the love and fuel to fuel your will, I had in spades. I can – I feel like I can pretty much do anything if I set my mind to it. When it was my essential part of my life, my recovery, was a 24-hour –
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Chapter 2: What happened during Jeremy Renner's New Year's Day 2023 accident?
type snow event that shut down the mountain that I live on at the top of Lake Tahoe at about 8,000 feet elevation. And we got just tons and tons of snow. But it happens often, maybe not that intense of a storm. But so much so where we were cut off from anywhere else. We're snowed in. Fine. I'm prepared for that stuff. Three days without power. Prepared for it. It's fine. We can have fun.
It's actually a relief. All the cell phones go off. All the iPads go away. Computers. And everybody's just playing card games with headlamps on. I mean, it's a riot. So we had a good time. You know, the food supply was still good. But, you know, it's New Year's Day and we're getting a break in the weather. So I decided I needed to clear the roads and see, come out for air, essentially.
And in doing so, that's when the accident sort of transpired. And it's more of a routine type of thing to have a half-mile-long driveway up there. And I have to maintain it myself, so I have a snowcat and a bunch of other snow removal type equipment. There was a bunch of vehicles, snowmobiles even, things that got stuck in the driveway because it was a lot of extra snow.
And some of it was very light. And then it got very icy and hard. So you're sinking down like three or four feet into it. And it was a hot mess. So I had to try to dig all that stuff out using the snowcat, pulling this stuff out. This thing, a snowcat, to describe it in words is pretty difficult. But it's like a tank. It's probably, I don't know, 12 feet wide.
The track's on each side, so it spins like a tank, like a skid steer. There it is. Yeah, there we go. That's a small, tiny version of one. But, yeah, it's something kind of like a Star Wars, you know. But this minor or metal track is more like that one right there.
Oh, you got one like that?
That's it. That's exactly like the one I have. So it's about like 16,000 pounds or so. And it's very nimble on the snow.
Just to see it physically, put it back up, to see it physically and to know that that's what ran over your leg? Oh, my whole body.
Oh, God.
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Chapter 3: How did Jeremy Renner recover from his severe injuries?
Is that the only thing that they had to take out? Is the screws that were in your head? Yeah, yeah. Or did they take them out of your body as well? No, no.
They have to leave those in for the most part because why risk infection and open you up for something? But... Yeah, so all the rest of the stuff stays in until those screws come loose. At some point, they will. They start backing out, right? Yeah, yeah. You'd think you'd put in a locking screw, right?
I've had friends that have had broken arms and starts poking out of the bar. Yeah, yeah. It's what it's doing now. And they have to get another operation and get it removed. Yeah. Yeah. So how many different plates do you have?
I think I got, there's only a couple in my face, and they went in underneath my cheek. A plate for my orbital socket and then for the cheekbone. They put, I think, a plate or two over there to hold that bone in place. Do you feel it? I feel the lack of feeling in it. It's still numbness to this whole side because they had to cut all these nerve endings, right, to get in through your mouth.
So even the side of my face is a little slightly, a little numbish.
And the rest of them, how much do you feel in all your different bones and joints and all the different things that got repaired?
Yeah, there's lots of scar tissue to work through all the time. What's great is it's not any one spot. It moves around. Even if you're not injured, it's like if you just twist your leg wrong and then it goes up into your hip and then it's in your shoulder. It moves around. Your body kind of...
It moves it around, so you just kind of stay on top of it, and there's always something to work through, you know, in your body. Wow. And it's just, you know, look, I already have to do it anyway. I'm 54. I'm going to have to take care of my health. And I just have to make it a very central part of my life.
And so now do you have full range of motion, full mobility? Everything is back to normal?
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Chapter 4: What was Jeremy Renner's experience with pain management and opioid withdrawal?
you know, where my mitochondrial levels are at, anything was at. So it was really, really great part of my recovery. And that's what I'll continue to do, still continue to do today.
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Did you use a hyperbaric chamber? Oh, yeah. That must have helped a lot.
Yeah, yeah. What it did for me, it's not something, I don't think there's many things in my recovery that you do that feel good. It just doesn't make you feel as shitty. Right. It's like you're building a mountain one layer of paint at a time. Yeah. So – but hyperbaric is great. It helps with lactic acid when you're working out.
As you know, it's all the oxygen you put in your body is a great necessity. Again, they're the ones, things that are even age-reversing. It's also disease-preventative. Right. It's amazing. And I got one that was – You can sit in and do multiple things. I can't just sit there for an hour and a half in the chamber and, like, I'll go crazy. I have a busy brain, you know.
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Chapter 5: What role did hyperbaric chamber and other therapies play in his recovery?
It's just so impressive. Yeah, it really is. It really is amazing.
Yeah.
Because at any other time in history, you're dead. Yeah, yeah. Any other time in history. Oh, yeah. Connor. 20 years ago, you're dead. Connor. Yeah. You're a Connor. 20 years ago. It's insane, right? It's amazing.
It's amazing. What a great blessing to have. All those people that even the EMTs and all the people that were there, the life saving stuff that did all this stuff that they had to do, man, there's so much. And I'm really known in that community, especially in the EMTs and all that sort of stuff. I have a lot of firefighter friends and all that stuff.
So it's just like a – you're just getting a little extra juice and love from these people. Like I knew – one of my best friends is a firefighter in that area, Jesse, and he's just retired. He got the phone call from his buddy who had to like stab my chest and release the pressure from the lung and da-da-da, like on the ice. I'm like – and he's the one that says, look, dude, Jesse, Jeremy is in –
we did the best we could, dude. You don't want to get the hospital.
Wow.
And that's like code for like, he's gone.
Yeah.
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