(NOAH) Yoshiki Inamura's injury story (part 2)
15th July 2022
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It was decided that I would miss the Fire Festival, and I went into hospital that Monday morning. I had been told that if I had surgery I would be hospitalized at a later date depending on the hospital schedule, but I was hospitalized as an emergency that day. I wasn't prepared for it, so I asked Yasutaka Yano to bring me what I needed from the dojo.
"Bring only shoes for my right foot, I need them for rehabilitation".
Yano bought my left shoes.
I felt like I was being tested when I contacted him and asked him to bring me the right sided shoes.
After a twenty-four hour fast, I went into surgery. In any case I was hungry.
It was my first time having surgery, so I was a little nervous. When I heard I was going to have surgery with a lower body anesthesia, I was worried about two points that my mother had said previously; "the injection for lower body anesthesia is very painful" and "the urinary catheter hurts a lot". In the event of things, neither of them hurt at all.
Because I was anesthetized in the lower body, I was conscious, and I found that the sensation in my lower body gradually disappeared. I was worried that it would be painful for the skin to be cut and the plate put in the bone with only an injection, but when I noticed it was happening, it appeared that the surgery had begun. Of course, I didn't feel them cutting me, but there was an indescribable feeling of a similar "crack" sound in my head for a moment like at the time of the break.
After the surgery, the doctor said "For the first time with heavy legs, the bones are not thick, but they are very hard." When I heard that, I thanked my bones saying, "Thank you for supporting such a heavy body..."
After the operation, when I had returned to the hospital room, the doctor warned me that it would hurt somewhat when the anesthesia stops. However, I heard from a friend who is a nurse that, "When the anesthesia runs out, it's hell". While I was worried about which one it would be, a pain that I had never felt before spread to my leg as I was falling asleep. To describe the sensation, it was like my bone being gripped with a tremendous force.
"It's hell!"
I was desperate and decided to take the painkillers and go to sleep, but they didn't work at all. I pressed the button for the nurse, and got a painkiller drip, but it didn't work. It hurt so much that I wanted to say, "Please give me another anesthesia!", and after about two hours I called the nurse again and asked "Is there anything stronger?"
I was offered a suppository.
I didn't care about the embarrassment of that anymore, so I asked them to put it in immediately. Then the sensation of the pain gradually faded, and I was finally able to sleep that morning.
While waking up and enjoying a meal for the first time in a long time, I thought that this was the "tenderness" that had been written about in Baki The Grappler when Jack Hammer had bone extension surgery. I thought, "I can't do anything with my whole body, as every single bone hurts so much, just like Jack".
As an aside, the skeleton of the life-sized Jack Hammer at the Baki 30th Anniversary Exhibition was not human. I want to be like that.
Following this, I felt more pain as I rehabilitated on my crutches, and after being hospitalized for about two days, I returned to the dojo. I never thought that that post-operative pain would be more painful than the pain when I broke the bone. Considering all the post-operative pain, the inconvenience and how I could not do anything in my everyday life, I didn't want to get seriously injured anymore and to prevent this from happening, I would build a strong body that would not break under any impact.
Thank you for reading the story of my injury, twice.
The fierce and tough battle continues at the Nippon Budokan event and the Fire Festival! Fight hot and strong!
Yoshiki Inamura
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