Kelly Slater
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So then... Had you had the surgery?
Or no?
No.
You had the surgery when you got back?
I was going to fly home and see my surgeon.
He's a good buddy of mine.
He lives right near me.
And so he came over to my house to see my foot and he's like, I'm gonna have to wait because when I do surgery, it's gonna blow up again and it's gonna... Your foot's so big, it would rip the stitches out.
You know, it'll rip them through your skin.
So he's like, we're gonna have to let that thing settle for a few days.
Yeah, basically.
So it was basically like a good two weeks before I got surgery and then it blew up again and then I had pitting edema for like three months.
It was terrible.
And...
And then I started surfing a little too soon on that one.
I did that in July, and I surfed a contest in December.
I actually did all right in the contest.
You did that injury in the contest?
No, I did the injury just before I had to compete, like an hour before I was going to compete.
So I was out of that contest.