After Sarah's miracle recovery, word spread fast.
My neighbor Jim - construction worker, 6'4", tough as nails - knocked on my door at 10 PM.
"Whatever you did for Sarah... I need it. NOW."
This man hadn't slept through the night in 2 years. Sciatica had him popping Percocet like Tic Tacs just to swing a hammer.
15 minutes on my prototype device.
He cried.
Not from pain. From relief.
"It feels like my spine was freed after a 30-year prison sentence.," he said.
Within 48 hours, I had a line of desperate people outside my garage.
Teachers who couldn't stand in front of their class... Truckers who wanted to quit because sitting was torture... Moms who couldn't pick up their own kids...
Every. Single. One. Got. Better.
Not "controlled by my pain" better. Not "learned to live with it" better.
ACTUALLY BETTER!
That's when the threats started.
WHEN YOU MESS WITH $47 BILLION, THEY COME FOR YOU
First, it was "friendly" warnings.
A spine surgeon I'd known for years pulled me aside at a conference:
"Brian, what you're doing is dangerous. People need REAL medical treatment. You should stop selling trash from your house before we lose our jobs... "
Then came the cease and desist letters.
Three law firms. All representing "concerned medical professionals" who claimed I was "practicing medicine without proper authorization."
The final straw?
My biggest equipment supplier - a company I'd bought from for 10 years - suddenly couldn't fulfill my orders.
"Sorry, Brian, corporate decision. Nothing personal."
They wanted me gone because I'd created something that could make their entire business model vanish.
A device that:
Fixed the ROOT CAUSE of sciatica (not just symptoms)
Worked in 15 minutes a day (not weeks of appointments)
Costs less than ONE cortisone injection (not thousands in procedures)
Let people fix themselves at home (not in some $3 million clinic)
But here's what those medics didn't count on..
I'd already partnered with a team of biomedical engineers who believed in the mission.
And we'd turned my garage prototype into something even better.