Russian fighter Magomed Zainalov told about the injuries he suffered after falling from the tenth floor.
On January 24, a fighter fell from the balcony of his apartment in Rostov-on-Don, saving a cat that had gotten out onto the windowsill and could have fallen. Zainalov came across a parked car and remained alive. The fighter is currently being treated at a city hospital.
— We started this interview a little later, because we had to take the scanner. What do they see on a scanner on the 20th day of hospitalization?
— My pelvic bones are broken without displacement. The femur is slightly crushed and a titanium plate is inserted. The bones were collected and examined to see if they grew together. I hope everything is okay. I have not felt and do not feel any pain in my hip. It only bothers where the nerve is damaged. If it hadn’t been damaged, I would have been busy developing myself 24/7, I know that myself.
I have a broken talus in my leg and a broken calcaneus. They grow together in three months. This period must pass and I will be good as new.
— Will you need another operation?
“Today we did a scan to see how the hip is healing, I hope everything is okay.” And if everything is fine, there is nothing to do.
—What do the wound locations look like now?
“There are Frankenstein points there now.” I have casts on my legs, they are bandaged every day, the wounds are treated, like the scar on my thigh. The pelvis is fine, but when there were interventions, we had to move from one bed to another. Then I felt it hurt.
— You said you had to stay in the hospital for about a month and a half. We are now on day 21. Does this mean most of the hospitalization is over?
“The doctor says I’ll spend about another week here, then three months at home, in a wheelchair. » I didn’t expect that, I thought I would recover in a month (as happens with arm fractures). In a month, I thought, I’d be back in the gym. But God has other plans for me,” Zainalov told .
Zainalov has been practicing MMA since 2020, he has won 5 victories and suffered 9 defeats.
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