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 a hundred.
00:16Basically, I had a complex tibia fracture.
00:20I also fractured my fibular head, my tibial plateau, just kind of everything was in pieces.
00:28And the reason why it was so complex was because I had compartment syndrome.
00:35And compartment syndrome is when you have so much trauma to one area of your body that there's too much
00:42blood and it gets stuck.
00:44And it basically crushes everything in the compartment.
00:48So all the muscle and nerves and tendons, it all kind of dies.
00:55And Dr. Tom Hackett saved my leg.
00:59He saved my leg from being amputated.
01:02He did what's called a fasciotomy where he cut open like both sides of my leg, kind of fellated open,
01:10so to speak.
01:13Let it breathe, and he saved me.
01:18And you know, I always talk about everything happens for a reason, but if I hadn't torn my ACL, which
01:24I would have torn anyways with this crash, if I hadn't have done that, Tom wouldn't have been there.
01:29He wouldn't have been able to save my leg.
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