Candice LeRae Provides Injury Update

I was like, this is definitely broken, we went to the ER, got x-rays. Even our medical team looked at it, and I want to say within 24 hours, I was able to pretty much use my arm and my fingers all again – obviously tender.

Right after the impact, my ribs immediately hurt, and I’m a pretty stubborn person, so I usually try to wait a second and go “Oh, I’m probably fine,” and I told the referee that was in there with me, “I think the doctors need to check on me just in case,” because I’ve never had a rib injury so that freaked me out, and I went to check my ribs myself to see how everything was, and I just completely couldn’t use my arm, and I was like “Oh no.” They were trying to get me to leave the cage, and I was like, “I can’t leave the cage because we lose if I leave the cage, so just give me a second,” and so by the time the match had ended, my ribs had started to feel better, and I could breathe normally, and everything was fine, but there are so many things I can’t do with my arm right now.

It was a deep tissue…all the cartilage and stuff just got mushed, and I mean, for days after, I went up to people like, “It’s not broken,” and medical staff were like, that’s so crazy because everybody was convinced that it was broken.Candice LeRae