Trace Adkins

You know, anytime you wake up and your head's in another guy's lap.

Yeah.

This is not how this was supposed to, this day, this wasn't on the bingo card.

They took me to Williamson Medical at first and they just took a look at it and went, whoa, you need to go to Vanderbilt because there were bones sticking out of my pants.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

And did that freak you out?

Well, it didn't freak me out, but I just passed out.

That's the only time I think I've ever done that looking at an injury.

I've had a lot of injuries over the years, but that one is like when you look down and you see that, I just went back out.

man I must have been in there a couple of weeks or something because there was yeah I mean they didn't know you know they thought they might have to cut it off and when he told me they told you they may have to cut it off like amputate and I asked them to

Because when he told me what the recovery was going to be like and how long it was going to take and that, you know, the damage to the nerves and all that kind of stuff, he said, you know, you're going to have trouble picking your foot up and blah, blah, blah, and all this.

And I said, just cut it off, man.

How long will the recovery be if you cut it off?

Because it was going to be below the knee, so it's not like up here, you know, so.

Anyway, and this knee's fake anyway.

I mean, I had a total knee replacement years ago, but my wife wouldn't let him do it.

And all the work that I've done with vets over the years, I've seen the advances that they've had in orthopedics, and it's like, you know, they got some good stuff, you know, so...

Yeah, I thought if the recovery would be shorter, just cut it off.

Yeah.