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• Intro (0:00) (Now newer and shorter!)
• News and Views (0:40)
  • Stacy and Sarah discuss how their Seinfeld hello is not their natural way to talk to each other.
  • Stacy is nervous about this show, but Sarah is confident it will be amazing
  • Stacy's injury
    • Last summer she hurt her back and has had a lot of false starts and dead ends in her healing.
    • In the end, she was diagnosed 11 months after the actual injury.
    • Surprisingly, it wasn't Strongman that injured her. In fact, it was wrestling against United States Strongest Woman Viv in a different sport (MAS Wrestling) and lifting a bag of concrete in a garden that did it.
    • Backs like to be moved up and down, not side to side and twisting. And the MAS wrestling is a LOT of twisting.
    • Stacy was recovering from that original injury and lifting again, but her pride in a community garden event got the better of her and she decided to try to lift a waterlogged bag of concrete to prove a boy wrong. That was the biggest injury.
    • Her diagnosis in herniated discs in her 4th and 5th lumbar discs. The fifth lumbar disc is impinging a nerve on the right side. This is a very common "gardening" injury.
    • Because of her "redhead" mutation, Stacy has a high body pain tolerance and a resistance to many pain killers (This is true!). So part of what made her treatment delayed was downplaying how much she was in pain.
    • Her injury ended up flaring severely after she returned from Europe after a 12 hour flight, travel stress and unusual diet. This led to a freak out in the doctor's office, which led to her actually getting the MRI and the diagnosis.
  • What happens to your life when you have a bad injury that changes your life?
    • Stacy had really built her life around strength training. She gave talks, made friends, got a lot of benefits from it. She went from entering a competition she had a great shot at winning to not lifting for a year.
    • Her quality of life wa