A staple of science fiction is stories about alternate reality. In this type of story a minor change in the past causes a major change in the future. At many points in our past, a decision we made, or that was made for us, changed our future. The following addresses a situation where a minor change in the past caused an insignificant change to the future of the world but a major one to a certain individual.

It started when a young college physical therapy student had a job as an “assistant” at a physical therapy clinic on…