Adriana Chechik She made headlines earlier this month after she broke her back in two places at TwitchConhas returned to streaming with some updates and an in-depth look at how her recovery is progressing.
In case you haven’t seen the incident, Chechik broke her back after jumping into a foam pit at TwitchCon. It was a seemingly harmless move, thanks to the reported shallowness of the pit. Slamming her tailbone into the floor “completely crushed the bone”, fusing multiple vertebrae together and suffering “nerve damage”. [her] bladder”.
her recovery process rough. This is what she wrote after a physical therapy session on October 13th:
I tried to get up in PT today, but I’d rather die than repeat the same thing. I hate this and I hate my whole body. I don’t want to be tough I don’t want to be brave.I’ve been crying for an hour.I don’t know if I can do this. I cannot explain this pain.
Back home after multiple surgeries (which lasted over five hours), Chechik returned to Twitch over the weekend to update her on her injuries, the consequences, and the weeks following the accident. I was.
In this clip, Chechik mentions being still out of breath after doing the simplest of everyday tasks before revealing a large scar running down the middle of her back.
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While playing later, she was revealed during an examination performed while in the hospital that she was unknowingly pregnant at the time of her injury, but lost her baby due to surgery required on her spine. rice field.
In the wake of injuries from this event, do not have Twitch (the organizers of TwitchCon) or Kairos Media (the creative agencies that actually run the booths) have publicly commented.
