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And when they had to move me, especially onto a stretcher, the majority of my leg is just dangling.

So someone else has to actually support it and they're jostling it.

And it was...

It was so intense that I feel like I kind of went somewhere else.

And then going to the hospital, obviously they give you IV and your own painkillers.

But then moving me to the x-ray machine was the second most intense pain I've ever felt.

Yeah, that was, I mean, I think the...

breaking my pelvis set me up for that and understanding of like, oh, this is the kind of pain where you can't move your body at all.

I mean, on my pelvis, because when you have a femur, when they fix it,

they want you to get up and they want blood flowing immediately when you break your pelvis you just sit and if you sneeze if you cough if you have to go to the bathroom it's traumatic so the recovery was was daunting tricky painful but the the femur was kind of everything

Yeah, but nothing has been so debilitating that I wasn't able to recover from it for the most part.

I mean, since I broke my leg, there are a bunch of techniques that I just had to let go of.

Some because I can't physically do them.

Some because they're not worth the risk anymore.

I think it was a hard lesson, but a necessary one.

But yeah, I mean, I could have done without a couple of bad concussions and some silly incidents of just...

fucking around and finding out.

There's stuff that I did, like I was on Wild Boys, the jackass MTV show, and we were dressed up as monkeys skating because they had a chimpanzee that could skate.

So they brought this chimpanzee to the ramp, Bob Burnquist and I dressed up in monkey suits, we're skating.

We ended up going into his full loop ramp, which is something that we had done before, but