Confidential Transcript March 1, 2003

Terry Rhyno Gerin Obviously the injury sucks! I think, uh, more or less wear and tear, you know. Chair shots, and you know, landing on your head, being dropped on your head, Im sure it takes a toll. But theres a couple a like hardcore matches I had; one with Justin Credible, on a house show. And basically I went to gore him and he leap frogged, I come up, I caught the middle turn buckle with my head. I had a huge stinger, where your arms go numb. Really thought nothing of it, you know, but because I put it off, to go to the doctor to get it checked out, a lot of wrestlers do. After 2 and a half, 3 months, it was like, I couldnt sleep at night, you know, nothing. It was just, I couldnt work out, so I had an MRI done, and it showed the hurniated disc pinching the nerve. Because I didnt go and get it checkout out earlier, um there was some atrophy with the tricep. Mentally, for the first 8 months, I was just beating myself up, you know, miserable. Everything you worked for, for 6, 7 years, you know, your dreams are coming true, everytime you go to work youre so happy cause its what you love. Its seems like you have everything, and one day it comes to a screeching halt. And its just like, you know, a couple months, one thing, but a year?
This has probably been the hardest thing I've ever had to, you know, deal with. You can't get in there and train and you see your body change, not for the better, but for the worse. I mean It's so hard, especially if you love the business and you know, you're backed out of it. I think that's what hurts the most.
And then as time went by, and uh, you know, that light, you know, you start to see it, and it starts to get brighter. And its like man, time is going by fast. Ive only got 4 months left 3 and a half months left!
When I come back, I definately want to be better than ever. The only thing I can't do is run head first into the turnbuckle. You know, I'm definately going to give them something to cheer about."