You may or may not have stopped screaming after watching yesterday’s video of ex-NRL player Ben Ross snapping his arm live on The Footy Show, during a bout of arm wrestling with Wendell Sailor.
Ross is currently recovering from a “severely broken humerus bone” in Royal North Shore Hospital, and has given an account of the situation. “I heard a snap and I didn’t know what had happened,” he said.
“When I looked up, my arm was at a different level. But then I looked at Wendell’s face and I knew something was wrong. Wendell and I were attached together. His face, if it’s possible, turned white.”
Ross says that he has had bad reactions to painkillers in the past, so laid off them in the immediate aftermath of the incident. “This is probably the most painful thing I’ve ever had, by far actually,” he said.
“To have your bones at different levels and your muscles spasming for 40-minutes, before getting into an ambulance, it’s something that I don’t wish on anyone.”
The arm wrestle-gone-wrong was in support of the Men Of League Foundation, which supports members of the rugby community who have fallen on hard times, and Ross says that if he had to, he’d go through it all again.
“It was a complete accident,” he said. “We were doing it for a great cause and to try and get awareness for people and if you said its going to happen again I’d still do it.”
“It’s just something happens. I’ve been accustomed to [injuries] from playing footy.”
Ross suffered a neck injury while playing for Cronulla in 2009, and after surgery and almost two years of rehabilitation, he returned to rugby, before retiring officially in 2013.
Men Of League is one of the largest sporting charities in the world, and Ross currently has a welfare management role there.
via News Limited
