“I was physically, mentally, emotionally, and sexually abused as a kid,” he said. “I tried to commit suicide twice when I was around six years old. I was exposed to the worst of humanity and it wrapped itself around me like a blanket trying to suffocate me. I always tried to do the right thing and live by a standard that was self-imposed. I escaped my reality by reading comic books, watching cartoons, and movies. Anything to get my head out of what was truly around me. I learned morals and values from Batman, Optimus Prime, He-Man, and Lion-O. I just wanted to escape my world. We moved frequently, I think I went to around 5 or 6 different elementary schools. I’m not sure, I don’t remember most of my childhood.”

“My wife and I were working out in our basement doing some light deadlifts when I felt the twinge in my lower back,” Corvin said. “Not too alarmed I continued the workout. Just two hours later I had trouble navigating the stairs to get back to the living room. Long story short, I found myself in need a of discectomy just months later.”

During rehabilitation of this minor surgery while heading out the door for work, Jim fell on some icy stairs and later found out he had broken his L5 and needed another surgery to clean up what the doctor later described as, “looking like a bomb went off in your back.”