Meet Flip, a retired fire fighter who participated in the Rescue 1 unit that was called in after the World Trade Center collapsed. He lists his many physical ailments and explains how he went about treating them.

Flip:



I was told that I wouldn't be walking, I wouldn't be doing a lot of things, by the time I was fifty or sixty. My name is Flip Mullen, I'm a retired firefighter for NYC, I have a wife, seven healthy children, and 11 grandchildren.



Barbara:



He was a firefighter, a NY firefighter, Rescue 1. The twin towers? Was his.



Flip:



I've got everything. I have seven herniated discs, I had no feeling in one leg for well over a year, I was just dragging it. And I had a doctor tell me, I asked him for what the guarantee that I wouldn't be dragging my leg after the operation was. He said if you want a guarantee go to a muffler shop. I wound up getting into a pool and learning how to float first of all to get my circulation going, tread water, and then I had to learn how to swim and do exercises without lifting weights. Check everything out, check it out, get a second opinion, you'd do that if you were buying a used car.