I have to quit climbing #sport #travel #running

So I don't know how many times I've said that I've never been injured throughout like 25 years of climbing. I've never been injured. In the last video on the second channel I feel like I kind of jinxed it a little bit. If you take just a little risk many enough times eventually the statistics are going to catch up to you and you're gonna end up in an accident or even worse. I just feel like this is gonna be like a it's gonna come out after some tragic accident. So it finally happened. I broke my thumb and the doctors say that it could take up to a year before I can climb again and yeah it sucks and yeah it just really sucks. Yeah here we are my first injury and it could have been a lot worse. That's why I tell myself like even though it is the most important finger on your hand just to kind of function in normal everyday life and I've realized that already like it's a struggle doing normal things not having your thumb it feels like my left hand is completely useless. Getting dressed, making myself a cup of coffee, everything food related is a complete struggle and I feel so helpless. I need to ask my girlfriend for help doing a lot of like easy tasks that I normally of course would do myself. I also tried to do like my first climbing session. I went to the gym and just kind of to figure out what I can do. This is gonna be the first training session since my injury. It's been 10 days now without any training. I have to start training at some point. I can still train my right arm so I'll just do as much as I can. I'm probably gonna feel terrible though because I haven't worked out in like two weeks. It's weird that the thumb is so important for just hanging. Like it really hurts. I think the maximum pressure I can put on this is probably like 10-15 kilos maybe. This is not that much fun. I mean compared to climbing it feels weird. I haven't climbed in two weeks so everything feels kind of stiff and I should be careful not to injure my right arm too but it sucks that I'm not able to climb. When I look around at all these boulders that's pretty much what I've been doing the last few years is only climb but now I'm not able to do that. Now I have to do all these boring exercises instead. Freaking sucks. Okay so I think I should probably explain how the accident happened. So I was in the U.S. one of the first days of filming. So I used to be a big fan of Entourage. Yes dude I just watched that this year. Okay and it's based on him. Who do you think, what character do you think you are? And I did this challenge so it was a dumbbell like this. Just way bigger, way bigger than this even. It was 90 pounds. I was told that I should be very careful. So I had my thumb like here and then I turned it like that and then it crushed my thumb and the thumb was just bent kind of the wrong way. I panicked and with having a lot of adrenaline I kind of put the thumb in place and I was I asked if someone could drive me to the hospital. All right Magnus what just happened? I just broke my thumb. I crushed it with a with a dumbbell. Dumbbell. Flipped it and it landed on my thumb and it was like bent completely the wrong way. So now he's going to the hospital. Going to the hospital. Yeah. I just want to say it wasn't my video. It was someone else's. I don't care whose video it was. Yeah. I don't blame anyone but myself. It happens man. I mean I thought it was broken but I was like hoping that it might have been just dislocated even though I could hear the snap of the finger. Like I heard it break but after scanning my thumb they said that it's completely broken like clean off and I actually did a pretty good job of putting the thumb back in place. I was also a little bit afraid like going to the hospital in the U.S. I've heard so many horror stories of people getting charged a lot. Luckily though I had travel insurance that probably saved me a few thousand dollars. So when I finally got home I decided to go to a Norwegian hospital to get it checked again and see if they had sort of the same conclusion and I was super nervous to hear what the doctors had to say. I still had no idea if I needed surgery and if I needed surgery it could take even longer before I could climb again. One year. So after he said that my mind just went silent. I just completely zoned out and I didn't hear anything else he talked about. All I could think about was all the videos we had planned. I was planning to get back in shape competing again possibly. All that just went down the drain when I heard one year. So luckily though he mentioned that possibly I could climb after only three months but I would have to be super careful and definitely cannot like full pinch or anything. So at least that was nice to hear that I don't have to wait complete like I don't have to wait one year to even get on the wall but it's probably going to take a full year before I can pinch 100% on my left arm or left hand again. So the first cast I got on my hand after coming back from the U.S. was huge. It covered my wrist. I couldn't use any of my fingers so I kindly asked if I could get a smaller cast for the remaining three weeks and luckily they said yes. It's hard to even describe how much better this feels. The small little cast compared to the big one that was like super itchy. I also got a new appointment in three weeks from now. September 17th. So that's the day before my birthday. My birthday is 18th so I might be able to take the cast off completely in three weeks from now the day before my birthday. I'm going to do what I can to stay fit and at the same time be super careful. Yeah if I was a little bit younger and dumber I think I would just kind of ignore the advice a little bit and try to climb as much as I could but it makes no sense. Now I just want to make sure that in a few months from now I'm going to be completely normal. My thumb is healed and I can do whatever I want basically. The interesting thing about something like when you break a bone is that it doesn't really heal in the first like 10 days or at least that's what Chachi Petit said. It first like prepares to heal so the first 10 days the bone is still not attached it's not any stronger than it has been which is a little bit demotivating because I thought like okay every day now it gets stronger and better and it's it is healing but that's not really true or at least according to Chachi Petit and I think it's also gonna make me appreciate like being healthy and strong again when this eventually heals. When I start climbing again I'm probably gonna have like a like a new motivation. In many ways too I think that maybe it's good to give my body a break from climbing. I am though I am gonna climb with one hand. I'm doing that today actually. I gotta be careful though not to get too excited to do something stupid. Still early in the healing process so doing something stupid now would be very stupid. Not even sure how I'm gonna put on my shoes. The thing is now I am able to use my left arm a little bit. I wonder if there's a size difference between my arms. I usually don't flex on camera but now to see so this is two and a half weeks ago. The accident is two and a half weeks ago. See if there's any difference between my right and left arm. I don't know. Now there's someone looking. It looks weird to flex like this. It actually hurts my thumb a little bit too when I'm flexing. It's almost like using all the muscles but I don't know if you see any difference between the left and the right arm. Hopefully not. I was looking at this it might be way too hard to start on but it is a slab so hopefully maybe not. Okay not definitely not the intended way but I do kind of want to use my left arm even if it's just like five kilos pulling a little bit in with the left arm but I just have to remind myself it's not worth it. It's definitely not worth getting injured again. I'm definitely not a patient person though. Everyone who knows me can testify to that. Okay here's another one. I gotta be careful. I feel like I'm already too excited about this. Something like that I think. To me the top doesn't look so bad so if I can only do that first move. I didn't even think of that. Down climbing even is pretty tough. Also a fun fact about the injury is that the nail, the nail on the thumb, on my injured thumb, has not grown at all. I've had to cut the other nails two times and I haven't had to cut the nail of the injured finger even once. I used Chachi Bouti and asked why that was and it said that it's normal when you break something that it takes a while for the nail to start growing again. It said something about it being traumatized or something which sounds dramatic but I guess it is when I can actually match. It's a weird way of thinking. I have to think in a completely different way. Solving a problem or route is so natural with two arms and now it's kind of like I don't know my brain is not working. That is a little bit too hard. If I just do that move though I can definitely do it. I'll try it one more time. Not really sure what to do from here so if you guys have any tips or tricks on how this possibly could heal any faster if there's any like alternative medicine anything out there that could help me please let me know and also please help me come up with video ideas I can still do with one hand. Climbing related or not this channel is not only about climbing anymore which makes it a little bit easier now that I'm injured. Thank you for liking and subscribing and all that and I will do my best to get back as quickly as I can. Thank you for watching and I will see you in the next one.