A sidebar to the excitement naturally surrounding the Vegas arrival of Hussong’s (read more here): Titan Nightlife Group President Scott Frost remains wheelchair-bound following the May 10 accident that left him temporarily paralyzed from the neck down. Frost, 43, had just opened negotiations for Titan to buy the worldwide franchise rights to Hussong’s when his dirt bike took a perilous drop into a cement drainage ditch on Mother’s Day 2009.

Following successful surgery and a strict regimen of occupational and physical therapy, Frost—all 6’7” of him—is in shockingly good shape, having slimmed down from 265 to 222 pounds, as well as shed his high blood pressure. Beyond the physical, the lifelong entrepreneur is in soaring spirits, deftly aided by fiancée Megan Powell in the daily tasks associated with opening a new venue in a Vegas casino. “We’ve kind of morphed into one mega-human. She’s really my arms and legs,” Frost laughs. “Now imagine if everything you were doing went through another brain … and a female brain!”

Rehabilitation has become a second full-time job for Frost, and opened his eyes to the importance of his family, which includes two teenage children. “I have the rest of my life to open restaurants,” he says. “One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is to work in their business instead of on it. Being in this position, I’m forced to work on it, not in it.” To assist other families in similar situations, Frost has launched the Spine Injury Recovery Foundation (SIRF), a not-for-profit in keeping with Frost’s “every-other person theory” on the pervasiveness of his type of paralysis. “Everyone knows someone who knows somebody who’s been affected by spinal injury or traumatic brain injury ... everyone can identify." SIRF just recently received its non-profit status and even without trying, is already receiving donations and offers from volunteers. Efforts to raise funds for SIRF will include three sustainable events per year including a poker tournament and celebrity-driven gala.

In case Hussong’s January 21 opening wasn’t exciting enough already, Frost has also promised friends and guests a treat: “I fully plan to walk across this threshold with no mechanical assistance.” That’s right, Frost, who at present has the balance, he says, of a 10-month-old outside his wheelchair, plans to walk into his party. “It’s 20 steps from the threshold to the first barstool; I’m up to about six.”

For more about Scott Frost and SIRF visit healscottfrost.org.