I ran 1 mile today. It's been almost 2 years since I had to stop running due to my injured hip. It's been 7 months since my hip resurfacing surgery and 1 month since I was cleared to return to full activity - including running. So I want to express my immeasurable gratitude to my brilliantly talented surgeon, Dr Tom Gross MD, and his fantastic team at Midlands Orthopedics in Columbia, SC for fixing me and giving me this unbelievable opportunity. I was told I would never run again. As it always has been in this country, we live in an age of remarkable medical innovation and advancement. Let's hope and pray that these creative and gifted Medical Professionals are allowed to continue to operate and flourish in an environment that nutures their goals and not in one where a group of unknowledgeable and misguided bureaucrats extinguish this spectacularly creative process forever.