I Broke My Arm

this is going to [Music] suck yeah guys um if the the title and thumbnail didn't give it away enough I broke my elbow I broke my elbow I'm going to give you a little bit of timeline just on how these events took place January 26th Phoenix Arizona I was away from my bachelor party and the Royal Rumble weekend and uh after a night out not uh not not a drunk night out but a night out I took one of those lime scooters I'm home from where we were and it was 1.7 miles made it all the way back no problem about 100 y from the house the Airbnb we were staying at trying to get on the sidewalk my wheel grabbed the low water collection drain and I hit the curb and just flew over the handlebars and landed very hard on my right elbow immediately it was like huge just taped it up for the weekend and luckily I was flying up to Winnipeg on the Monday so I could at least get it checked out there because as you most know I am Canadian so needed to go to a Canadian Clinic because my insurance in America would only cover me if I needed Sur or something it would bring me back to Canada so it worked out okay that I was going to Canada fly up to Winnipeg and my arm that was like looking like popey the air pressure of of the plane the flight just made everything like swell up and yeah so January 29th I go to a clinic in Winnipeg and it's broken my oloc cranin is off my elbow just this is what it looks like right now and today is February 5th so here regular elbow you know just fine looks okay here I don't know how well you can tell oh there that that shouldn't look like that it's broken and I need to get it repaired my arm actually looks drastically better than it did about a week ago it was like purple all the way up to my fingers you can kind of still see the bruising in my hand cuz when you have a broken bone it's just uh yikes so yes today is February 5th I have surgery in 2 days February 7th you're seeing this video on February 14th so romantic don't you think uploading such a great story on Valentine's Day recovery is not awesome for a golfer it's 6 weeks till I can really start kind of any intensive physio maybe the 8 to 10 week window till I can start swinging a golf club and about 12 weeks till I could fingers crossed play golf that really sucks but what does this uh mean for myl golf well I'm going to check back in with you guys post surgery and we can talk about that so uh I mean I I I won't be able to clap and cut into me with a repaired arm so we'll see you after surgery I back from surgery surgery was actually 5 days ago so today is February 12th I just had my first postop appointment with my uh surgeon and looking good the first 5 days have took really well the pain was pretty minimal I opted to go with just a nerve block as opposed to being knocked out during surgery made the recovery a lot easier no nausea no nothing took it like a champ just slept through surgery and um went pretty good it was weird not being able to feel my hand and arm for solid 36 hours that was super super strange things are looking good my elbow has um healed nicely so far thankfully be out of my full cast and now this is just a splint that I can take off three times a day and start some exercises to start the motion and start this road to recovery and getting my elbow back ready to play golf my surgeon knows this is my job so he's doing everything he can to make this process quick yes what does this mean for a golf going forward unfortunately I had to pull out of Q school I got my site I got the mission Insight that I wanted the first week of March but there is no no possible way I'd be able to play in that Q school so I had to pull out and the Mackenzie tour was fortunate enough and gracious enough to put me on the alternate list so that maybe I have a chance of getting into one of the late sites but the two late sites are my wedding week and my honeymoon week and even those are going to be pushing it as it pertains to being able to fully golf so what does the timeline look like it's 6 weeks like I said earlier and an 8 we and 10 week and 12 week Mark no Mackenzie tour school had to pull out of the three web qualifiers that I had planned to play in and I think there was two Florida elite events that I was going to play one in April and I believe one in February so it sucks it sucks so much to have to have my season start like this and the the the motivation and the drive and the determination to get back on the Mackenzie tour has really been derailed and it's going to take some some creativity it's going to take some amazing play it's going to take some luck to get some starts on the McKenzie tour I'm going to have to ask for some sponsors exemptions and maybe go out and try to Monday qualify some of the events throughout the summer and also web.com the events that I had planned to Monday in in February and March can't do those so I'm going to have to look at some in May and Beyond so it sucks my competitive season will not start now until basically the second week of May with us open qualifying Canadian and qualifying things happen things happen it's been it's been a tough 2 weeks I've been trying to stay really really positive really really busy but this is testing my faith this is testing my faith quite a bit but I'm trusting uh I'm trusting that God's got this got me so there's going to be low moments there has been low moments but I'm trying to keep my chin up and I'm trying to stay motivated determined and and driven on this path to recovery and coming back stronger because of this luckily I filmed a bunch of videos at the PGA show week so you've been seeing some of those I haven't posted anything on Instagram about my arm but now it's in the open I broke my arm we can talk about it and we can talk about this road to recovery so I'm going to document this now I'm going to document a little bit of my physio my training my thought process for getting back on track quickly so the Channel's taking a little bit of a of a a det sure but it's okay it's all good luckily I filmed a bunch of stuff at TPC sagra so you're going to start seeing those videos on my channel and George Bryan's Channel Brian brothers so there's still a lot to come on the channel and there's still a lot of great things to come as it pertains to golf yes obviously I can't do a whole lot I I can't go to the kingdom like I had planned was going to the kingdom can't do that can't get fit into my new tailor made clubs until May so obviously the next few weeks are going to be golf list which really sucks it's cold it's snowy up here I have an appointment in two weeks and then after that appointment I'll be able to head back down to Florida and then just fly up for my next one four weeks from then and once I get back down to Florida get chipping get putting get my physio going get in the gym I miss it so much I miss it so so much we're going to get through this guys I cannot thank you guys enough for for being there obviously being able to vent and open up and share with you guys this experience this journey is has been very helpful for me and I look forward to sharing more of it with you guys and let me know down below if you've been through some some broken bones some surgeries and some of the tips and tricks that you have used to get through it cuz it's tough it's physically tough it's mentally tough it's emotionally tough but it will not be the end of me 2019 is going to be the best year ever guys that's I think that's the best way to end it that's a great way to end it end it on that note this year will be amazing even though I broke my elbow in the first month of the year it's going to be okay ah give this video a thumbs up because you want to you're not thumbing up the fact that I broke my elbow but you're thumbing up the fact that we're going to get through this we're going to document this recovery and we're gonna we're going to kill it we're going to crush it subscribe if you haven't because you definitely want to see this road to recovery and see how I get this arm back to 100% turn your notifications on and I'll see you guys on Monday peace [Music] [Music]