"Coal & Diamonds"
by Tasha Simone
Tasha Provides an UpdateTasha Simone suffered a torn ACL in the ring and she fills in LadySports fans on her condition... I have always lived my life by the laws of Karma (anything we do, good or bad, comes back to us), and that can be tough, being the type of person I am. Karma can truly make some days diamonds, and some days coal, and Karma decided to bite me in the ass on December 9, 2005, and that day will forever be a lump of coal in my wrestling life. I tore my ACL during a match that night, there was so much force on my leg, that I also suffered stress fractures in the top of my tibia, but of course I had to be hard headed and attempt to wrestle on the injury the following week. My pain became so intense over the next several days, that I started to become very depressed, and for several more days, all I did was sit on the couch and eat, before I decided to stop feeling sorry for myself. I started going to the gym and working out everything but my legs, and began to feel a bit better, and then my surgeon gave me the word that I would definitely have to have reconstruction on my right knee. I was not a happy camper, but I am a hard person to keep down. During this entire time, we had also been on baby watch around the C4P camp, because our oldest daughter was preparing to give birth to our first grandchild, so emotions were running high, to say the least. On February 15, I watched coal turn into a diamond; as I headed for the hospital at 5:00 AM for surgery, I felt my day was nothing but coal, but as I was being wheeled to surgery, my ol' man received the call that our daughter was in labor. My surgery lasted for approximately 3 1/2 hours, both sides of my meniscus were repaired, a piece of my patella tendon was cut out and used to reconstruct my ACL, a few screws were placed in my knee, my incisions were closed up, a cryo cuff and brace was placed on my leg and an hour after that, I was on my way home. I had just enough time to nap after I got home, and then we headed to yet another hospital to watch a day that had started as a lump of coal become a diamond. The diamond came out as a 6lb 11oz little girl name Kayleigh Ruth, my first grandchild. I am still on crutches, and will not be allowed to start physical therapy until mid-March, so Kayleigh and I lay on the couch watching tapes, finding weaknesses in potential opponents, and Kayleigh is also teaching some interesting hair pulling techniques. I don't want anyone to think that I have become soft because of my surgery, or the birth of my granddaughter, because as I train to get back in ring shape and to make my knee stronger, I have one goal in mind: To come back tougher, stronger, and meaner than ever, and I intend to make a very brutal impact on ladies wrestling when I return. After all, I have a lot of pent of frustration and energy to get out of my system, and I have to set a tough example for my granddaughter, who already showing signs of her Grams's temper quite often.Until I return to the ring...
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