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The scariest injury for me was my back. It was after the Casket match with Undertaker at the Royal Rumble in 1998. I was fine after the match, did the TV show the next day, went home the next morning, went to sleep that night. But when I woke up Wednesday morning, I couldn't move in bed. I couldn't even turn to get to the phone. It was like the world's hottest knife in my back. I couldn't move my legs; I couldn't even turn my upper body. Every time I tried to move, it was just searing pain down my legs. All I could think was, "Make the pain go away." I was living alone in this big house, so I was stuck in bed, one of those huge four-poster beds. I had to roll myself off the bed to the floor, which hurt like you can't believe. Then I reached up and managed to grab my phone, and I called my parents and said, "I'm on the floor in my bedroom and I can't move. Call me an ambulance." It took the ambulance 20 minutes to get to the house, and my parents probably 30 minutes. From where I was on the floor, it was no more than 12 feet to my front door, and it took me 20 minutes to crawl that far, on my stomach, inch by inch. I was stuck in a flat position. I couldn't bend to get my hands up underneath me; I couldn't grab the wall to get up. I was crying; I was calling out to a God I didn't know, "Make the pain go away!" I'd never, ever felt that kind of pain in my life; every time I moved, it just shot through my body. They had to shoot me up with Denerol to get me on the gurney for hte ride to the hospital. That eased everything up, but I knew something wasn't right. I found out I was going to need surgery to fuse vertebrae in my lower back. Before I could get that done, I still had to wrestle at Wrestlemania, get through my match with Steve Austin. That was in January; Wrestlemania was in March. They let me off of the February Pay-Per-View so I could just make it to Wrestlemania and do the job I needed to do. About halfway through that match, I was in awful pain again. There are just some things you have to do for the business. I knew Steve was where we were going in the future, and I knew I had to go in there and make that happen. So from that standpoint, it was very noble. But I certainly can understand why somebody on the outside would say we're just incredibly dumb for taking chances like that. In my condition, if it were any other show except Wrestlemania, you might not do it. But this was for the world title, the main event at Wrestlemania, all those things that very few guys get a chance to do. Here you are, you've had a chance to do it a couple of times, and now you're on the other end, the part where you've got to hand that baton off; you've got to do the noble thing. And you say, "I've got to do that. I would want somebody to do that for me.



I'm an egg-whites-and-chicken-breasts guy, and a low-carb guy. I could probably be a little bigger, but at this age, if I carry a little less weight than I used to, it's better for my knees and my back, and keeping a low-card diet helps me do that. The way you look is so important now, more so than when I got into wrestling; there were a lot of big, fat guys in it then. Now, it's a very asthetic business. It demands more, too; the athletes are just getting better.

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