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Less than a week into all days, a small stress fracture I unknowingly had in my cuboid bone of my right foot (I thought pain in my foot was from my tendonitis in my ankle), gave out and split across my bone. This made it a full out fracture. When I went to urgent care a day later, I was told it was nerve damage in my foot and was sent to do electrical stimulation on my foot for 2 weeks. During this two weeks of continuing spring training and doing physical therapy, I was getting to a point where I could no longer walk on my foot and it was clearly getting worse. It felt like a knife was being jammed into the top of my foot. On a scale of 1 to 10, the day I had to go to a foot specialist when I couldn’t take the pain anymore, I was at a 9 and I don’t say that lightly. When the foot specialist showed me the x-rays, it was painfully obvious that I fractured the bone in my foot, and had I kept going much longer, I probably would have broken the bone completely. 

At this point I was told I was supposed to be non-weight bearing for 2 weeks, which I told the doctor I could not do because I needed to rehearse. He put a boot on my foot and told me that I was risking the possibility of my bones shifting and me needing immediate surgery. I decided to take that risk and go up to Eagar, AZ with Academy. While up there, despite the fact I could not participate in any aspect of visual rehearsal, I was still walking and standing on my foot too much. When returning to the doctor after coming back to the valley for a day, I found out that my foot had hardly made any progress healing. At this point I was told that options were take 2 weeks off to be non-weight bearing, ask for a non-marching position, risk permanent damage to my foot and march on it, risk my foot not healing in a few weeks, or quit all together.