I know you’ve kept in touch with Danny, but how up to date were you on the other castmates? Were you even following each other on on social media? Isn’t that strange? As you’re asking me, I’m thinking, this is so weird. I didn’t have a lot of people that even mentioned anything to me. I guess I also thought like, you’ll go consecutively, right? So this isn’t even going to be a thing for quite some time. But it has been so far from the conversation that I don’t think people even knew. Most of my audience - which is a small but mighty audience, we’re a tight community - they didn’t even know I had been on “The Real World.” That sounds wild. And subsequently, maybe it was subconscious or conscious or probably a little bit of both, I have completely pulled that away from my world. I was probably the least visible person the first time around, in terms of how much I was there and on the show. How much were you hearing from people in your life about whether you were going to do a reunion? Your season of “The Real World” was my favorite, and when I heard about the first reunion shows, I was very hopeful your cast would do it as well. Can you tell I don’t do a lot of homework? They sent me maybe one of the New York episodes, I think - like, a link to watch it. And I don’t think Paramount+ has been available in Canada for quite some time. Had you watched any of the “The Real World: New York” or “Los Angeles” reunions before you did this one? My quality of life is, in a word, excellent.As such, Wolf detailed the immediate tension between Julie Stoffer and Danny and Melissa Beck (née Howard) over how Julie had treated them on the lecture circuit after the show her surprising connection with castmate David Broom, who now goes by Tokyo and why she saw herself as a “supporting character” in Danny’s story. Woll told me to avoid (ex: racket sports), but I basically do anything and everything I want. To conclude that the operation and post-operative results have been life-changing would be an understatement. Woll returned from service in Afghanistan, I was walking without a limp, working full-time without mechanical aid or pain medication, riding my bike, driving…in short, living life to the hilt. With each and every visit to any of the Rebound offices, I was met and assisted by distinctively pleasant, skilled receptionists, patient services representatives, x-ray and cast technicians, medical assistants and medical providers.īy the time Dr. Pierce and the Rebound staff, all of whom did a phenomenal job in my post-op care. Woll was on orders with the US Army to return to Active Duty (for his fourth deployment overseas!). I knew, when I requested surgery, that Dr. Seven weeks after surgery, I was off all pain medication. Six weeks after the operation, I was back to work (on a knee scooter, for sure, but working). At 11:00 AM the next morning, I was in a friend’s car, discharged home, in far less pain than I’d lived with for the past 27 years. Ten days later, I was admitted to the hospital for surgery. It had indeed been five years since my last visit. Woll saw me in clinic a few days after my call for an appointment, he smiled when he heard my request and told me he was very pleased with the newly FDA-approved STAR ankle prosthesis, and offered me a joint replacement surgery. Woll’s estimate, I concluded that amputation was my only viable option. Thinking that it had only been three years since I’d heard Dr. Woll, he had estimated that ankle joint replacement surgery was still five years in the future. I hurt so badly, so much of the time, that I decided I would rather get by on a prosthetic leg than to suffer any longer with grinding, shooting pain all the time.Ī major concern was that the last time I had seen Dr.

The pain was so severe that it kept me awake each night, as I twisted about, trying to find some position of comfort. By the end of 2013, my ankle pain was so severe that I hobbled through work each day leaning on a cane, and had stopped exercising. I had broken my ankle in three places in 1974, had been in a posterior splint (to immobilize the ankle from the movement that caused so much pain) since 2005, and had been taking opioid medication for many years in an effort to keep working full-time despite “severe post-traumatic arthritis” in the ankle joint. Woll to do a below knee amputation of my right leg. In January 2014, I called Rebound Orthopedics to ask Dr. Athlete and Parent's Online Guide to Sports Medicine.

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