Injured WWE superstar Kevin Owens appeared on Cody Rhodes' "So What Do You Wanna Talk About?" podcast and discussed how his rehab is going from a serious neck/spine injury requiring surgery, which he revealed in early April that ultimately kept him from wrestling Randy Orton at WrestleMania 41.
In the weeks that followed, Owens updated the situation saying he still hadn't undergone surgery as doctors were still trying to figure out the best course of action. In his talk with Rhodes today, Owens shared that the surgery is still pending as doctors have decided to let his spine heal on its own as much as it can before he goes under the knife.
“It’s been such a frustrating process. We’re letting my spinal cord heal as much as we can on its own before we go in for the surgery because how extensive the surgery will be depends on how my spinal cord looks when we go in there. We’re waiting till mid-July to do the surgery. Hopefully, it’s a normal neck fusion. It might not be, we don’t know.”
“So since then, I felt fine. My neck’s been fine. I’m not in pain. I have no symptoms of what you would expect somebody with spinal cord injury have to have. In the last week, for some reason, the symptoms all came in one shot. Every symptom you’d expect me to have, the pain in the neck, the stuff going down the arms, the legs not really responding, it’s all been happening. So it’s been pretty f*king brutal. I can’t wait for the surgery. And then to move forward, whatever that looks like but it’s been very frustrating.”
