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Fundraising Kick-off Day 1! (The Lowdown)
I'm totally new to this so bear with me.

I'm one of those statistics you hear about on the news made real. I had health insurance just last year and I will have health insurance again in September but as of now I am uninsured. Lo and behold, I get a debilitating injury on the one gap year that I am uninsured.

What Did You Do?

Completely Ruptured Achilles Tendon (Right).

Long story short – plyometrics; specifically, from doing high-rep box jumps while participating in WOD 12.3 of the CrossFit Games Open Qualifiers (2012).

Now just mentioning those 2 syllables either brings confusion or causes an inadvertent gut reaction to defend the exercise regimen. I completely understand both sides since I've been doing it for around 3-4 months (known about it for 6 months or more) but still remember the days when I was skeptical of exercise/training as a competitive sport.

I'm not here to criticize or defend the protocol. I just want to want to be back on my two feet again!

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Why Don't You Get Help From Official Charities or Companies? I'm Poor, Yo!

I've tried. I reached out to some Catholic Charities and are waiting for their response. I think a measly achilles tendon surgery isn't even a blip on their radar. They want the sad leukemia child with the shiny, bald head. All I can do is hobble around and look pathetic (or in my book, totally badass with my pimp limp). No one would even bat an eye.

Oh yeah and a good friend of mine told me it would be great if I could get CrossFit HQ to provide a substantial donation or pledge to match the amount that is raised from this fundraising effort, especially since there have been a large number of identical injuries related to the Open WODs both last year and this, involving high-rep box jumps and I believe I could raise awareness in preventing future recurrences. (If you are interested in this, you can read a (controversial) article by Beast Modal Domains here. I won't delve into that here. Beware, it's a hilarious article but it's got some language.)

I would hope that CrossFit HQ would want to make a strong effort to show they want to prevent future injuries in the sport and to shed the negative media attention surrounding the controversy over its safety.

I am planning on writing a letter seeking assistance from HQ but if anyone has any connections with HQ that would be of great help.

it would be great if I could get CrossFit HQ to provide a substantial donation or pledge to match the amount that is raised from this fundraising effort

Sandman wrote:The solution to this xfit victim's problem is simple. Talk to the surgeon and tell them the issue and work out a payment plan. Pay them 100 a month or something and work out a deal with the surgicenter and anesthesiologist. It is that fucking simple. As long as you are making payments no one is gonna sack your credit rating. This is not rocket science.

Sandman wrote:The solution to this xfit victim's problem is simple. Bullet to the fucking head. This is not rocket science.

Simple Reminder: NEVER GIVE UP.
Easy day never came, hard long hours and devotion- champion blood.
Not every win, but all guts and some glory.- champion blood.
Skinned knees and bruises just a part my journey. Champion life.
You ask me what makes me bleed CHAMPION...
More heart, fierce courage, indomitable resilience, and a simple
quest in life to Be BETTER Everyday. Without Letup... I am. -Champion

Be that sort of strong that strength grabs hold to when weak approaches.
Now... that is what it takes. Go GET it.

What a duck says wrote:The money he should be able to save by deferring his @F membership for the time of his recovery should more than cover his payments!!! A short bit of research found that his affiliate runs $125/month.

Also, he might want to re-evaluate how his reliance on couch's wellness/fitness spectrum is working out for him, since he has obviously chosen to pay for his @F membership instead of health insurance...


EDIT: Also, WTF is with every T-Nation article these days using a picture of an @Fer with shite form?

Jay wrote:
Because pics like that make their groupies moist

lasalle wrote:That weakling didn't have CHAMPION BLOOD

Simple Reminder: NEVER GIVE UP.
Easy day never came, hard long hours and devotion- champion blood.
Not every win, but all guts and some glory.- champion blood.
Skinned knees and bruises just a part my journey. Champion life.
You ask me what makes me bleed CHAMPION...
More heart, fierce courage, indomitable resilience, and a simple
quest in life to Be BETTER Everyday. Without Letup... I am. -Champion

Be that sort of strong that strength grabs hold to when weak approaches.
Now... that is what it takes. Go GET it.

https://www.facebook.com/RXSTARS

kreator wrote:

lasalle wrote:That weakling didn't have CHAMPION BLOOD

Simple Reminder: NEVER GIVE UP.
Easy day never came, hard long hours and devotion- champion blood.
Not every win, but all guts and some glory.- champion blood.
Skinned knees and bruises just a part my journey. Champion life.
You ask me what makes me bleed CHAMPION...
More heart, fierce courage, indomitable resilience, and a simple
quest in life to Be BETTER Everyday. Without Letup... I am. -Champion

Be that sort of strong that strength grabs hold to when weak approaches.
Now... that is what it takes. Go GET it.

https://www.facebook.com/RXSTARS

I thought in order to be a champion you have to actually win something... ?

What a duck says wrote:Oh yeah and a good friend of mine told me it would be great if I could get CrossFit HQ to provide a substantial donation or pledge to match the amount that is raised from this fundraising effort

Five rounds for time of:
Underwater swim 25 yards
50 Squats

What a duck says wrote:A short bit of research found that his affiliate runs $125/month.

kreator wrote:Hey guys, how did we all miss the April fools day workout?

http://www.crossfit.com/mt-archive2/008279.html

Five rounds for time of:
Underwater swim 25 yards
50 Squats

But it's okay, because they posted a link to a wikipedia article about drowning.

kreator wrote:Hey guys, how did we all miss the April fools day workout?

http://www.crossfit.com/mt-archive2/008279.html

Five rounds for time of:
Underwater swim 25 yards
50 Squats

But it's okay, because they posted a link to a wikipedia article about drowning.

A shallow water blackout is a loss of consciousness caused by cerebral hypoxia towards the end of a breath-hold dive in water typically shallower than five metres (16 feet), when the swimmer does not necessarily experience an urgent need to breathe and has no other obvious medical condition that might have caused it.[1][2][3] It can be caused by taking several very deep breaths, or hyperventilating, just before a dive. Victims are often established practitioners of breath-hold diving, are fit, strong swimmers, and have not experienced problems before.

Many drowning and near drowning events occur among swimmers who black out underwater while free-diving or doing breath-hold pool laps. Blacking out, or greying out, near the end of a breath-hold dive is common. Although the mechanism is well understood, it is not common knowledge among breath-hold divers.

What a duck says wrote:http://repairkylesachilles.blogspot.com/

Fundraising Kick-off Day 1! (The Lowdown)
I'm totally new to this so bear with me.

I'm one of those statistics you hear about on the news made real. I had health insurance just last year and I will have health insurance again in September but as of now I am uninsured. Lo and behold, I get a debilitating injury on the one gap year that I am uninsured.

What Did You Do?

Completely Ruptured Achilles Tendon (Right).