I broke my fucking leg again!! (In Europe this time)
March 4th 2009:
6 weeks, 10 countries…..the last fucking show of a European tour of
England, Ireland, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Slovenia, Croatia and Italy.
We pulled into a gas station in South France on our way to Orleans from
Montpellier. It was raining. We pulled into a station just outside of a little town called Milau I think. I stepped out and started grabbing trash out of the back to clean the van up a bit. I dropped a trash bag and tried to grab it before the wind rushed it away. I tried to step on it with my left foot and slipped. I kinda laughed and said “whoa!” and stepped down with my right onto the gas pump island. The floor was tile and wet.. so my right foot slipped. My right was up on the island sliding and my left was down on the ground up against the curb. As I fell forward with all my body weight, I was still kinda laughing at myself for eating shit… Then I heard the snap and felt my lower left leg go jelly and bend in a way that it had never bent before…
I knew before I hit the ground that my leg was broken….It was the leverage of my left leg planted up against the curb that made it snap over the edge of the curb. I hollered “I broke my leg” several times and laid down on the pump island with my broken leg hanging off the edge sideways for a minute. Justin was like “let me see” and when we pulled my sock back you could see the bone wanting to push through the skin.
I laid back and they called an ambulance. After a minute the pain got better and I started shaking from the cold and shock.. It was near freezing and I was laying on the cold concrete. Then I just shook my head and said “C’est la vie.” I laughed and started yodeling real fast.
It sucked. It hurt really bad. I was at the hospital at least 2 hours before they gave me anything or took me into surgery. They put a rod and 4 screws thru the center of my bone in my lower left leg. I already had one in my upper right as well as 8 screws in my left knee and a plate with 6 screws in my right arm and 3 screws in my right foot from my wreck in 2003.. So, yeah, fuck that shit.
Here I am doing the same shit I did 6 years ago. fuck it!
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Dammit man! If it wasn’t for bad luck, as they say, you’d have none at all. Your in our prayers up here in Oklahoma. look forward to seeing you in july. Not trying to kiss too much ass but your inspirational in more ways than one. Keep on truckin bro!
Shit dude, your like the bionic man! with all that metal, get well soon! Craig England
Shit Biram, you know how to go big.. Hope you can still make it to Salt Lick City and close out the show in similar fashion as last time.. the bar maids loved your ass!
Keep on smokin’ that whisky down and heal up fast!
The Tbird SLC
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