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   At the beginning of 2011, I was offered a position to become a University Professor in Bangkok, Thailand, and so I left New York City where I had lived, and I moved half the world away to accepted that offer.

   It was a great time doing that for a whole semester & then I accepted another position that let me go back to the hospitality industry in which I had worked under for many years.

   I became a Director of Marketing in The Unique Collection of Hotels & Resorts and I had to travel all throughout Thailand and Myanmar to open new

1. De Naga Hotel, Chiang Mai, I.jpg

hotels in cities, towns, up in mountains and in islands. It was a beautiful life that I did enjoy a lot for more then four years.

   When I was there I talked the Thai language, I had many close friends as well, I lived in a beautiful apartment looking out onto the ocean, but then on May 1st, 2015, something happened that has changed my whole life since.

 

  I was walking home at night and I was directly hit, and not by a car or by a truck, but by a Tuk Tuk, which is a taxi that's used throughout

Thailand and in Asia. I was hit so hard & was so badly injured that I was only 1% percent away from passing.

  But thankfully, I defied those odds and I lived, through it was not easy. I was taken to a hospital and was given a 5-hour surgery into my brain, & after that I was unconscious for 12 days.

   When I woke up I couldn’t walk, couldn’t talk, couldn’t eat, couldn’t read, couldn’t write, and so much more. That is why I

   




   I stayed in that hospital for three months and then I moved back to the United States, There I was in another hospital in Atlanta for two more months. And then finally on September 21, 2015, I moved back to New York and since then I have worked very much to become as normal as possible again and to start the new part of my life now.  

had to start all over again to learn each of these things, which is the same that I had to do when I was first born.

  Because of what happened to me, I have Traumatic Brain Injury & Aphasia, which is a language disorder that affects my ability to communicate, to express myself and to understand written and spoken language.

  But I also have another different part of me that has come out now that didn’t come out before. In the past I have been a businessman, but now I am a

photographer. I see things now that I didn’t see before, and so I capture those inside my camera.

   But more than anything I just want to say thank you to all of you. To my friends, my family, and to my father Harvey in heaven, for doing everything that saved me. And for helping me also to continue moving forward, and that is what I am doing right now.

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