Kelly Slater
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Second, third, fourth metatarsal in a line diagonally, and then the fifth one cracked up over here, high in the metatarsal.
It was a really bad injury.
Yeah, how long did that take you out?
About a year and a half.
Year and a half?
Yeah.
You had surgery?
I had surgery on it like two weeks after it happened.
Cause the foot swole.
It must've been the gnarliest x-ray.
The foot swelled up so bad.
Yeah.
I'll show you the x-ray.
The foot swelled up so bad that I couldn't fly because it was like the foot expanded so much.
So my doctor basically said, look, just like let the swelling go down a little, ice it for a few days before you fly.
I was in South Africa and I had to fly double red eye to get home.
Oh, my God.
So elevation for 10 hours, elevation for 10 hours.
Right.
And when I got home, my foot was even bigger than right after the injury.