Tom Green
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And they did skin grafts off my leg.
And they took skin grafts like the size of a football off my right leg and stapled 60 staples to staple the skin into my foot.
And then I come up out of surgery and the doctor says to me, which I think he was trying to make me feel better, but he said, well, the good news is you'll probably be able to live a normal life.
He says to me, it's the first thing he says to me.
And I'm, you know, I can't move.
I had a morphine going into my back.
Uh, couldn't feel anything below my waist.
I thought it was paralyzed.
They told me I would be, you wouldn't be able to feel anything below my waist while this, while I came out of it.
And then I'd spent two weeks in a hospital bed and, uh, I was not able to get out of the hospital bed for two weeks.
This is debatably too much information, but it's interesting.
You get very constipated from all the medicine that's going into you, and you end up not being able to go to the bathroom for about a week, but then you ultimately have to go.
And you can't get out of bed because your foot has to remain elevated.
You've got to drop a log in a diaper.
And someone's got to clean your butt?
And then these Costa Rican nurses come in and clean your butt.
And it was just a really interesting moment of clarity for me where you realize you're humbled as a human being and you realize, oh, this is โ I've lost all ability to look after myself.