Mike Durant
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Like the cyclic didn't hit my leg.
I don't know.
I mean, you can't explain everything in a crash.
And my vertebrae were crushed.
Not the discs, not the squishy things, the bones themselves.
One crushed 30%.
And because of the spin, they're crushed in a doorstop-like shape.
So if you saw an X-ray of my back, which I have,
I mean, I don't know how I can do what I can do.
I really don't.
They're disfigured and crushed.
And I have what's called a kyphosis in my back.
It turns 32 degrees at one point and then 13 degrees forward at another.
Because when we hit, we're spinning.
So I go forward and sideways with enough force to smash the bones.
And I mean, that's what hurt.
I mean, when you have a femur fracture and you can't feel it,
Not because your nerves are severed, but because your back hurts so freaking bad you can't feel it.
That's freaking being in pain.
And it hurt.