It hasn't really sunk in yet. I haven't consumed much of the coverage because I was in a bubble. Yet all the things I've seen and the feedback I've received from those back home following or watching have been exceptional.
If you had told me medaling, let alone competing at the Paris Paralympics, was in my future, I'd have laughed you out of that hospital room. And now here I am, a three-time Paralympian and two-time medalist.
To be three-hundredths of a second out of the silver-medal position was tough, but I had a really good race in the VL2 200-meter canoe event. Coming into the final, I was seeded third, and that's where I ended up.
I'm going back to my office job. Now if Sunday had been my last race and I was sitting here at 33 years old doing this sport as my whole career, it'd be a dramatic shift back to the US.
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