Kelly Slater

So the blood flow was obviously not very good.

Yeah, plus it probably shattered a lot of blood vessels.

The doctors who did it were a little concerned.

Actually, my normal surgeon, he sent me to someone else.

He goes, he's like, I could probably do it, but these guys are really good at it, and I'll send you to them.

So these two doctors in Burbank did it.

Yeah.

they said they were basically like taking tweezers and putting a little piece of bone back together and trying to like glue them back together.

And they weren't sure that my foot would, they weren't sure if the bone would sort of like heal properly.

And then.

No.

Still haven't.

You still haven't?

Yeah.

So then 10 months after my original injury, so this is May of the next year, 2018, I went to Fiji and I was surfing.

It was a really big swell, so I went to chase big waves.

No problem on the big day.

The next day was kind of small, and I just did something dumb on a wave, and I hurt it all over again, and I tore the plantar plate between my first and second toe.

Just like ripped it because there was so much scar tissue.

That ligament, right?