WWE Hall of Famer Rob Van Dam (RVD) recently updated listeners on his broken heels during an episode of his podcast, 1 Of A Kind.
RVD said, โTheyโre good. Theyโre real good. Iโm not going to win any foot races for a few more weeks, but Iโm able to walk around and theyโre better and better all the time. So Iโm walking now, slowly but surely. I can carry s**t up and down the stairs several times a day. I do walk a lot better if Iโm under medication, and that does include alcohol. So without that, a little slower. They kind of hurt; I donโt know if Iโve lost my arches, or at least one of them. I donโt think both of them, but I might have lost the arch in one of my feet. Which, if that did happen, then I will probably have a little limp moving forward. But I donโt think I really care, Iโve searched my f**ks and I donโt have any. Hopefully not. Hopefully I can get back to running and everything and not have any pain that slows that down. But I think that I will be fine. But if I had to โ if I couldnโt walk right again because I had to get on my feet when I was supposed to be off them to go and memorialize Sabu and s**t? Then totally worth it the way I see it.โ
On the longest injury he had during his career:
โMy longest injury, I believe, is my wrist. I broke my wrist in โ93 and I consider it still injured, because Iโve lost my range of motion in it. I canโt bend my wrist very much. So when Iโm lifting weights, especially with a bar instead of dumbbells thereโs a lot of times where that range of motion makes it impossible, or very difficult, to do certain movements. Especially to feel it where I want to. So that one, my left wrist here is โ letโs see, 32 years. But I just know Iโm going to always have that.โ
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(H/T to 411Mania.com for transcribing the above quotes)