I felt it tear off my pelvis

I slipped and did a violent split.

I felt the excruciating rip of my hamstring as it tore from the bone in my pelvis.

It was 2020, Slide Rock, Arizona, and I slipped 😂 ironically, on a rock and collapsed into a snow-fed stream.

Clearly, my gymnastic days were over.

I remember sitting on a bag of ice on an eight-hour drive all the way back to Los Angeles,…