I never got injured in high school or college other than maybe a sprained thumb
or a sprained ankle or something like that.
But in the pros I started having knee injuries and broke a few bones.
Every team had a doctor. Like, the short term pain they would prescribe, you know, uh,
Oxycontin or something like that if the pain was severe.
I always resisted taking that because I didn't like how it made me feel.
It kinda like, took me out of my head a little bit. Like, kinda like, made me feel like, uh,
I wasn't myself. You wouldn't feel the pain you basically wouldn't feel anything.
So it would allow you to play, but you also not feeling that joint you wouldn't know
if you had injured it further.
The injuries that I'm dealing with now are kind of cumulative.
If I have a particularly active day where I'm getting up and down off my knees a lot
during the day, when I go home it's really a part of my routine to put ice on it.
If I don't, the next morning my knee might be so swollen that I can't really do hardly anything.
Ice goes a long ways towards easing that sort of pain.
When I played it was taught that pain was just something you overcame, you know, like
you ignored it.
But, uh, I definitely now think that pain is something that you should listen to
that tells you that something's wrong something needs to be addressed
but then it might tell you that you need to back off a little bit, you know.
You need to like, uh, rest up you need to rehabilitate.