[EDITOR’S NOTE: Jeff Nunn is a writer for Extol
Sports and a senior contributor for Cardinal Zone
Sports. He didn’t set out to pen this first-person
account and was reluctant to do so until talking
it over with those closest to him and, ultimately,
deciding he was willing to share his story in the
hopes that he might convince someone out there to
realize what he has: that life is not to be taken for
granted and is meant to be lived.]