00:00Well, guys, after two weeks, I finally made it out of the hospital.
00:04It has been quite the journey and by far the most extreme and painful and challenging injury I've ever faced
00:14in my entire life, times 100.
00:18I'll give you the full rundown.
00:21Basically, I had a complex tibia fracture.
00:25I also fractured my fibular head, my tibia plateau, just kind of everything was in pieces.
00:33And the reason why it was so complex was because I had compartment syndrome.
00:40And compartment syndrome is when you have so much trauma to one area of your body that there's too much
00:47blood and it gets stuck.
00:49And it basically crushes everything in the compartment.
00:53So all the muscle and nerves and tendons, it all kind of dies.
01:00And Dr. Tom Hackett saved my leg.
01:04He saved my leg from being amputated.
01:07He did what's called a fasciotomy where he cut open like both sides of my leg, kind of fellated open,
01:15so to speak.
01:17Let it breathe and he saved me.
01:22And it's going to be a long road.
01:24I'm in a wheelchair right now.
01:25I'm very much immobile.
01:28I'll be in a wheelchair for a while because I also broke my right ankle.
01:37So I hope I can be on crutches in a little bit, but we'll see and probably at least be
01:43on crutches for two months.
01:46But I'm going to get right to work on rehab and see what I can do and take it one
01:54step at a time like I always do.
01:56But it's been, I can't tell you how painful it's been.
02:02It's been really hard.
02:03And it was definitely not the way I wanted to end my Olympics, but it's been really inspiring to watch
02:11my teammates.
02:14Everyone's just been incredible and watching Team USA dominate has been really uplifting.
02:20So I'm really proud of all you guys.
02:25And yeah, I'll keep you guys updated.
02:28It's going to be a long road.
02:31But I always fight.
02:34I'll keep going.
02:35No regrets.
02:38And I just appreciate all the love and support.
02:40It's been really amazing.
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