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Aurora teacher suffers 3 strokes - FOX 31 - KDVR LOCAL NEWS

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Fox 31 - KDVR LOCAL NEWS (Link Below) Aurora teacher suffers 3 strokes in 5 days due to neck injury by:   Maddie Rhodes , Digital Reporter  peer reviewed: David P. Justus, Ed.D. photography: David P. Justus, Ed.D. & Heather L. Justus, Professional Geologist  Fox 31 - KDVR Article found here: Aurora teacher suffers 3 strokes in 5 days due to neck injury.  An Aurora teacher went from seemingly perfect health to multiple strokes within a week of each other. Dr. David Justus, 55, moved to Colorado at the age 24 to attend  Adams State University in Alamosa . Since then, he’s spent much of his time in the mountains. From biking up Mount Blue Sky to rock climbing to white water kayaking, Justus did almost every activity imaginable –  including the Ironman  six times and  Colorado’s Triple Bypass  three times.      The activities didn’t stop once he turned 51. Just last summer, he raced in Steamboat and climbed 13ers and 14ers...
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An Unlikely Stroke Victim

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  SIX-TIME IRONMAN A STROKE VICTIM FEBRUARY 24, 2024  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Dr. David P. Justus, an educator with Aurora Public Schools, Aurora, Colorado, suffered three strokes in five days due to a neck injury.   David is an accomplished athlete in numerous sports but is mainly known as an accomplished six-time Ironman age group athlete. He is also a cyclist, runner, and swimmer in individual events. He is an accomplished rock and mountain climber in his twenties and thirties, an accomplished white-water kayaker, and  belts in two martial arts. He is highly regarded, committed, and relentless in his education career. He finished his doctorate and graduated from the University of Colorado in December of 2022; and he previously completed his master's degree from UCD in 2013. He moved back to the Aurora Public Schools district after helping to restart a rural secondary school that had closed for over a decade in Agate, Colorado.    “I felt a calling a...
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