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You are here: Home / Muay Thai / When The Doctor Tells You ‘You Can’t’: A Third Professional Opinion And Surprises

When The Doctor Tells You ‘You Can’t’: A Third Professional Opinion And Surprises

November 2, 2012 By Laura Dal Farra 1 Comment

 

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After even more foreigners showed up. An incredible night of fights at Wat Santai. San Kamphaeng, Thailand, 2007

 

 

Part 9

 

Saturday, May 05, 2007

 …The Verdict Is In….

 

I went to a Chiang Mai orthopedic specialist yesterday – something didn’t feel right about my knee, so I wanted a third opinion. He asked me a lot of questions, did some testing and wanted me to get x-rayed. Cool. While I was there, I thought, Yeah, maybe I should mention my back….

 

…Sitting in his office with my x-rays illuminated, he asks me “Did you have an accident, 2 maybe 3 months ago….maybe longer?” I mention my knee. He said, “No, I’m talking about your back.” This went on for awhile, because I was completely confused – I already told him what happened two weeks ago, about getting smoked by that kid while I was cycling and again about 8 or 9 days thereafter when that car didn’t yield and I bailed on my motorbike…and he kept saying, “No, not that. Before that.”

 

Bottom line is this….found out I fractured my spine.

 

He was completely confused because he can’t understand how I can walk, or have any of the mobility I have without being in hardcore pain. Trust me, he’s a good specialist – he’s better than people I’ve seen in Canada. Anyhow, I still can’t make this out, because the pain is about 1/3 of what I felt in my hip for about 4 years (until the Thai blind massage healed it). What? Exactly. Christ, I didn’t tell him I was at the gym lifting weights for the past 4 out of 5 days…. If I hadn’t seen him, I would have thought, ah, something’s out, probably just needs to be put back in place, whatever, got a few massages/my back cracked and went back to training next month. I saw my x-ray, it’s crazy apparent. And now when I run my fingers down my spine…..Yeah. Sexy.

 

Soo…..the hospital is currently making me a metal brace and I have to go see him next week. He told me, in all his years of practicing, he’s never seen anything like me. I still don’t get this shit, but it is what it is I guess. ?

 

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My going away party, San Kamphaeng, Thailand, 2007

 

The metal brace is temporary. Doctor prescribed it as a precautionary measure – I’ve been fine for about 2 weeks without it, but he wants to play it safe. He called me today about it. Still sounding confused about the fact I’ve been running around for 2 weeks like this. It’s actually bugging me out a bit that I feel fine. Not complaining (and no, I’m not chewing tons of pain killers, huffing anything…)….this is all actually making me wonder about my head. I didn’t even mention it. I bled a lot.

 

And what the fuck was going on with my hip for 4 years?

 

O, yeah – my knee seems to be fine, an internal sprain. If it doesn’t heal in 6 weeks, then it’s MRI time.

 

And despite all this shit, I’m still happier here than in the West. Trust me, I’m not living in some utopia – things are challenging and hard and I’ve been dealt some crazy shit I haven’t written about, but yeah, it doesn’t affect me the same way. Not even close. Interesting.

 

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Hope you’re all well and don’t worry too much about me. I just wanted to dial you in cause a lot of you have been asking. I’ll be fine.

 

I really believe the mental aspect is more than half the game.

 

XO

 

Another video of the gym, this one focusing on my friend Paul Lunney. I make an appearance in this video as well.

 

 

More on all of this in Part 10, the last of this series, next week.

 

Previously:

Part 1: Ailments, Injuries And Dreams.

Part 2: Impressions And Settling In.

Part3: Muay Thai Training And The Healing Begins.

Part 4: Muay Thai Training Video.

Part 5: New Injury.

Part 6: Sparring Injury Update.

Part  7: Disaster.

Part 8: Accident Number 2.

 

 

Filed Under: Muay Thai Tagged With: Injury, San Kamphaeng

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About Laura Dal Farra

After a six month adventure training Muay Thai in Thailand in 2007, Laura Dal Farra returned to her native Canada, sold most of what she owned, and boarded a plane set for Bangkok alone. She spent the next 3.5 years training in traditional Muay Thai gyms, pushing her limits, and embracing the unknown. Realizing little was being written on the subject, she began to blog about it. Laura Dal Farra is the founder of Milk.Blitz.Street.Bomb.

Comments

  1. Tommygun says

    November 8, 2012 at 12:49

    I seem to be having the same luck. I went to the doctor because of a pain in my left hip. Turns out I have a labral tear . However they also found a herniated disk happy days. However to an extent its mind over matter.
    If you just sit around doing nothing surely this will not do you any good.

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