His birth was traumatic and dramatic. Dreams bit off most of his toes during the breech birth and sliced him open from belly button to mid back. He nearly didn't make it.

Doctors in Cranbrook, 45 minutes each way from where we lived at the time, stopped charging us fees after a few weeks of 3 x a week visits. He was named for his 'fight' and because he was the first to be born in BC.