One moment changed everything

Everything was fine in Jesse Raymond’s world just a little more than a month ago.

His business, Ace Moving, was really getting off the ground. He just bought a house. Life was going along smoothly.

Then one innocent dive into the Snake River changed everything for the 43-year-old Coeur d’Alene dad.

“He dove into the water and he was face down,” Jesse’s sister, Jeanine Raymond, said Tuesday. “They thought he was kidding.”

Jesse dove from a sandy beach into the river, where he collided with an unseen rock that crushed his spine, gashed his scalp and rendered him unconscious/ Devin Heilman , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here.