2 years, 3 surgeries, and 400+ treatments later

The patient experience that changed the course of my life and led to IKONA

The end of the beginning.

In June of 2015 I was officially discharged from the United States Navy.

For eighteen months beginning in 2013, I was a patient in the VA hospital system. Three lower back surgeries, too many months on end lying near-motionless in isolation, and hundreds of excruciating wound care treatments later, the hospital corpsman finally h…