A family friend made a comment to my sister that, "rupturing your achilles tendon is the kind of injury that only happens to people who go hard all the time!" Well obviously I liked the sound of that and had to use it again.
Yesterday was a really tough day after the local nerve block wore off and intense pain came on quicker than the percs could go to work. I literally haven't moved in over a day after trying to get up to go to the bathroom yesterday. Standing upright and moving my foot below my heart caused an inexplicably painful and dangerous level of blood pressure to the wound that I'm not willing to try again. I've resorted to hitting the bottle and am very thankful for those family members brave enough to help with the emptying. The pain has been more bearable today, but I'm still unable to get up at this point. Since injuring my achilles I've been told that I'm in good company, so I decided to see who else goes hard all the time!
In the last few days I have heard the name KOBE mentioned quite a bit. For those of you who don't already know, Kobe Bryant, of the L.A. Lakers, tore his achilles tendon on April 12th (15 days prior to my injury). Naturally, I've been challenged to "beat Kobe back" and naturally I've accepted the challenge and am ready to compete. For the record, I got surgery 17 days after Kobe so he has a two and a half week head start. However, chances are that Kobe doesn't know who he is up against (or that he's even in a competition) so I have the advantage there.
I was even more excited to recall two other famous Achilles'(es?) that tore. In an amazing coincidence, the two studs that I've always interchangeably used to answer the question, "if you could be any celebrity in the world... who would you be?" have matching scars. That's right! My man David Beckham and my boy Brad Pitt have both ruptured their achilles tendons. So, for me I guess it was just fate. Becks went down on the pitch while B-Rad ironically went down while filming the movie Troy and playing the character of Achilles... I couldn't make this up!
Representing the women... Kim Wyant a famous U.S. women's soccer goalkeeper (recently inducted into the Long Island Soccer Player Hall of Fame alongside my father, Shep Messing, and Chris Armas) tore her achilles tendon twice, and was quick to send her well wishes to me. Former professional beach volley ball player and three-time Olympic gold medalist Misty May-Treanor ruptured her achilles while competing on Dancing with the Stars in 2008. Side note... she recovered in time to win Gold this past summer in England! And here's an even more extensive running list of celebs with matching scars!
What kind of COMPANY do you keep?