Former WWE Star and current IMPACT Wrestling Star Heath (Heath Slater) recently made an appearance on the WrestleZone podcast, where he discussed the injury he suffered at the 2020 IMPACT Bound For Glory PPV, which happened just a few hours after signing his IMPACT contract, and how his diagnosis started out as just a simple hernia, but it would turn into COVID, so after being told to take a month off he ended up taking several months off also due to the holidays.
Heath said:
“So, I got hurt at Bound For Glory then next thing you know, I went to [TriStar Skyline Medical Center], went there and they just told me that I had a hernia, like ‘Oh, you just have a hernia, you’ll be back in a month.’ I’m like, ‘OK shoot, that’s easy.’ But them just saying that’s a hernia, well then why’s my leg turning every color of the rainbow and black and brown and purple? My whole left leg looked like it got frostbite and was about to fall off.”
“They told me to take a month off, so I was just chilling at the house for a month, but it just kept getting worse so I went to a hernia specialist.” “And the hernia specialist said ‘your rectus muscle is ripped also.’ He also said ‘your hernia is a sports hernia and I don’t fix those, you need to find a hernia doctor that would fix it.’ He didn’t even do any scans or anything, so that was a wash for me and then I went to another doctor and with all this COVID stuff going on, it takes even longer for you to get in and on top of that it was around Halloween, then Thanksgiving then Christmas then New Years, so there was just a lot of sh-t going on.”
Heath then revealed all the injuries and repairs his body has gone through throughout this past year.
Heath said:
“I had two different types [of hernia] on my pubic bone, rectus muscle completely gone and still don’t have it, the abductor muscle had to get re-sutured back.” “And then I have three pieces of mesh in my lower abdomen wall just to hold my sh-t together.”
