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Three broken fingers, broken toe, broken
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nose, broken collarbone, uh ribs, 12
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ankle operations.
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>> Yeah.
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>> ACL reconstruction, teeth knocked out.
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And that's from the neck down and then
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the neck up. 30 to [music] 40
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concussions. Uh I'd say comfortably I'd
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say comfortably 30 to 40. Yeah. Like at
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my worst, I was um 4 days a week in bed,
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curtains [music] drawn, uh lights out,
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you know, post my last uh hit to the
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head. That was essentially 2 years. I
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was that bad. [music]
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I woke up in my car uh between rugby
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trainings. Like I I drove home between
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trainings and I just woke up in my car
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in my garage cuz I was I just fell
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asleep. I was so tired. I remember
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sitting down with my doc and just going,
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"Doc, I like I literally I don't know
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what's wrong with me, but I know there's
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something seriously seriously wrong."
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And I [snorts] don't remember anything
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of my first test match. Was knocked out
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twice. You know, we have to be able to
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ask to help. And, you know, I hope my
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boys watch this and understand [music]
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that.