One month post operation

It has been exactly a month since the operation and this is what my hip loos like right now...I know, it feel like I am the Bionic man or something like that? Well, at least it is getting better and I am feeling stronger everyday. I would like to be able to drop a few pounds with all the exercises that I am doing, but then again you can't get everything at once. I can walk and get about my life pretty much like I want now, but getting up in the morning is still hard and walking up stairs is still a bit painful. But I am getting better everyday that is for sure, before long I will be back in running shape and that should make me a happy man. Never give up and never say no, where there is a will there is a way!




今日で一か月です、オペしてからもう普通の生活に戻りました。普通っていうのは、普通の人の普通の生活ですよ！ニコラスにとって普通はまだまだ時間かかります。でも、水の中で走れているし、自転車は外でもこけますし。どこがつらいというのは、朝一起きていきなり歩けないです、階段の上りはまだつらいです、片足立ちはちょっとしかできないです、二日前に自分で片足立ちでパンツはきましたけど。。。やっぱりつらかったです。でも、毎日は気合いです、毎日はあきらめないです、毎日は夢をあきらめずに前へ行くんだよ！

Photo Shoot for front cover !

There is a full blowing Typhoon on its way, and I had to make my way to the gym for a photo shoot. But that was nothing my car couldn't handle...

When I got to the gym there was a butterfly stuck behind the windows, and I thought that maybe the little bug that I spent two weeks in hospital with had grown up and flown over to my gym to see me.

Harajuku Yosakoi Fetival

This is another way of killing time at the red light...

This is my dog Tyson !

I tried to shoot a bilingual episode for my blog, but I was kind of distracted when Tyson started trying to eat my turtles...


これは、バイリングアルのテストですけど。。。まったく駄目でした！タイソンを外に出した瞬間、カメを食べよとしたときに飛んじゃったので！最後にちょこっと日本語しか出てこないけど。。。タイソンは可愛いから見てみてください！

Back teaching in my gym

I kinda missed my entry yesterday but that was because I was real busy
both trying to set up some small buisness, that I have trying to
establish. And also because I was doing my rehab. Rehab has been
turning into training lately and I am actually sore from the weights I
lifted the other day! My calf are sore from running in the pool but
it is a good kind of pain that I have missed for the last many months.
Once I am up and about I can work around the soreness and get on with
the daily workout. I am just about to go down to the local gym and
work out now!

Nicholas Pettas reporting after workout

I just realized that I had gained way too much weight over the last 3 weeks and although I have been doing my rehab it has been hard not to gain some. So I decided to start doing 2 work outs a day, and given the right amount of time that should do the job. But it is a lot of going back and forth from the house to pool to the gym, at least it is still really nice riding weather, not like the other day when I got caught in a mini typhoon!

Nicholas Pettas 3 weeks after recovery !

I was thinking that I might tell you about how my leg is getting along, it is getting along! :) I am going to the pool everyday and although I am able to even run inside the water now, once I get out I have some minor inflamation in my abductor so it is still hard to stabilize the movements. But I can tell that I am regaining a lot of the lost muscle mass and things are getting better. Sometimes I just get frustrated and just want to start running, but that is just because I tend to forget that it was just 3 weeks ago that I went under surgery. So everything considered I guess that I am making awesome progress, I riding my bicycle and going to the pool and swimming, running inside the water, watching movies...ups that had nothing to do with it. I would like the pain in my abductor to go away, because that would make it a lot easier to walk up the stairs etc. But everything in its own time, at least I a living an almost normal life!

足の調子っていうか、具合っていうのか？最近この一週間はあまり変わりがなかったようなきがしましたが！昨日はプールの中で走っていました！本当に気持ち良かったです、１５分間を歩いた後に１５０ｃｍの深さで１０分をその場で走りました。しかし、ぷーるからあがると、まだ足が不安定な部分があります。横に開く、むしろ横に持ち上げる筋肉はずっとなかったですけど、昨日から急に少し上がるようになった！あせっているって訳じゃないけど、横開きの筋肉は本当に一番大変でした。実際に切ったところの周りですのでとうぜん痛みやストレスはあるはずですけど、ほかのところと比べ治りが全然遅かったです。？遅いというか？昨日で３週間でした。。。それにしてはかなり早いペースではないか？今日もリハビリと仕事がんばります！

Mini Typhoon in Tokyo !

I was on my way to Tokyo Station when suddenly it came out from no where!!! It was unreal, within 3 min. I was soaked to the bone and although I was on my way to a very important talk show when it happened, but luckily I was able to get there in time. I had to drive home and change both car and clothes, in order to make my way up to Kooriyama. The funny part is that on my way to Tokyo St. in my car, it turned into a bright sunshiny day???

Baseball Part 2

Baseball Part 2

They even have fireworks during the game these days ! It was awsome !

Basebal Giants Vs. Swallows !

I can't remember how long it was since I went to see a game of baseball, but it was a lot of fun. And I might make this into a regular thing!

Velo Force Mark Ginther

This video shows it all, Mark Ginther was my trainer for the last 5 years of my career and his methods are incredible. Short super intense workouts designed for one purpose of just getting stronger and faster than anyone else out there!

これは僕のトレーナーのデモバーションですが、本当に懐かしいです。本人は一年間アメリカに帰っていたけど、来月にまた日本に来て一緒に練習するって！かなりいいタイミングと思っています！

This does not mean...

This does not mean that I actually fixed the problem on my account, it just means that I uploaded it to a different one and then pasted it here??? I wonder what is wrong with my other account???

Still no bug fix

I can't believe it, I still have not heard from them and I still am not able to upload any video's to Youtube from my phone. I can log in using Safari and do just about anything but upload...They told me they were going to call me back but I have not heard from them since yesterday? So I guess that they are still trying to figure out what kind of bug is wrong with their system. There is something wrong that is for sure, because I have not been able to log in since Monday now...


まだあれから何も聞いてないです！昨日は最初の４０分電話から、もう一回電話してみた。。。そしたら、もう一回手あげって言われて、こちらから連絡させていただきますので、もう少しお待ちなってもらっていいですか？って？あれからまだ連絡は来ないです。。。本当に悔しいです、っていうか何で？今までできたのに、何回か再ログインをしてくださいってあったけど、すぐに入れて問題はなかったですけど、今回は火曜日から出来なくって、つまらないな～いろんな楽しい動画が取れたのに！

Another IPhone problem

I am sitting here in front of my Iphone waiting to get a response from the guy on the other end of the line, I have not been able to upload my video's like I have done until now??? Suddenly one day I just couldn't send any more video's, and now I have spent the last half hour on trying different variations of how to log on???

But even with the assistance of a dude on the wire I can't do it??? Man, this is frustrating!

本当に悔しいです、この何日前から全然Youtubeに自分が撮った動画のアップが出来なくって！！！

これでもう担当者二人目でまだ分からないです。。。本当に出来るようになるのかな～、しかも？急に月曜日から駄目になった？でも、やっぱり、小さなパソコンですので以外に難しいかも？自分では分からないそうさをたくさんやられていますが、まだ出来ていないです。。。この話の続きは？今日？それとも別な日に。。。

Mr.Bike Interview !

Nicholas Pettas on his way to Fukushima

Today I got up early and finished my rehab, then I had to meet up with
my friend because we were going up to Fukushima for some buisness. We
ended up spending 6 hours driving back and forth for a meeting that
lasted about half an hour!!!

But like the Chinese say: preparation for a job that takes one hour
takes 1000 hours !

So there is still a lot more to go before we actually land this deal,
but at least we put in some serious hours today!

I think I might go to the pool this evening, should be good for my hip!

BBQ

This is how you light up the BBQ !

Simple and fast way to get it going, from here on it is just getting the meat ready and then digging in! :)

JEF CUORE UTSUNOMIYA HALL

This is the place for one of my projects, I am producing a new Martial Arts Gym in Utsunomiya! The place is HUGE ! probably the biggest gym in Japan...It is not open yet, but we are getting ready to open up by the beginning of September! I will keep you all informed about the project as we move along!

Goodbye my friend...

ちょっと話は噛んでいるけど。。。気持ちは伝えたかな～？

サヨナラ、腹ペコあおむしさん。。。


I had to say goodbye to my little friend, we spent 2 weeks in the hospital together and he followed me all the way home. But that was the end of the ride, I had to let him out in the open. So I released him in a tree in front of our house...I hope you grow into a great butterfly or something like that?

last video from the hospital !

Finally geting out of here

This is going to be last entry I will be writing from my hospital, I am getting out of here in a couple of hours. Yesterday they took out the stitches, and I am officially a human cyborg. I feel like one, walking is still painful but, I am able to move around the hospital much more freely than just a few days before. Last time I spoke to my Doctor he told me that no matter how painful I should start to walk without the cane, and since then I have not used it. But I have been wanting it for every step I am taking, because although I can walk without it. It feel so much more stable with it and I feel that I have a lot more control. But it is the loss of control that I need to regain in the left leg that has been operated on. Staying here in the hospital is like being in a very protected environment, and I am able to calculate everything. I know how far it is to the rehab center or toilet, and walking is done in short bursts. The real challenge will come when I get out of here and don't know how far I got to go in a any given situation. Once you are hurt you realize how much you actually walk during a day you might think you are not walking much. But this is all part of the process that I have been through before so I know there is a light at the end of the tunnel, and all I can really do is just push on forward and work towards the full recovery. I see myself running in my mind, and that is a goal not too far away, so that is going to be the first of many goals on the way! Wow, this entry got real long, I hope you didn't get bored reading it...:)

今日は病院からの最後の日記エントリーです、この後は最後のリハビリに行った後に部屋をきれいにしてから帰る！やっと自分のベッドで寝れる。。。今回は自分の枕は持ってきたけど、まくらはベッドと違う。まくらはただのおまけでした、やっぱり家にあるテンピュールマットレスは恋しいです。だいぶ歩けるようになっているけど、病院内ではトイレまでの距離やリハビリセンターまでの道は頭の中で分かっていて、頑張って歩くんですが。本当のリハビリは家に帰ってから始まる、社会人として復活すると以外に歩いていないな~と思っている日はかなり歩きます。そこでは本当の頑張りが始まるけど、自分はリハビリ初めてじゃないから大体分かっています。しかも、分かったいるからこぞ、トンネルの向こうに気持ち良く走っているニコラスが待っているので頑張りたいです。今日はなぜかたくさん書きました、つまらなかったら。。。ごめんね！　：）

Belgian Friends in my Hospital !

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Lot's of friends !

Yesterday I actually had friends coming in all day, it was great I am in hospital and I was busy meeting friends! The best of them were Spitaels Koen and Bart Kuppens from Belgium. They are here to fight in some Karate tournament in Fukuoka, and still made time to come and see me. It was amazing, then Sherif and Sawano-san showed up on their bikes and we all got exited about it!


This is Sherif on my Monster bike on the weekend in Sendai, it rained and the race got cancelled, but that was not holding him back from doing some Burn outs!

S.P.Works !

昨日朝から晩まで友達たくさん来ました、何だかリハビリと友達で何と忙しかったです！ベルギーから友達も来ました、一度病院を間違えてきたので、僕の部屋につくまで４時間かかったらしいです！本当にお疲れさまでした。それから　Ｓ．Ｐ．Ｗｏｒｋｓのシェリフさんと沢野さんがバイクで来てくれて、本当に盛り上がりました。外に行ってバイクの話で熱くなっていたよ。。。

Feeling like I am in the Amazonhouse

I felt like I was inside a zoo or something, so I kind of made a joke out of it in Japanese. Yesterday proved to be a hard day. I bicycled for 15 min. at what I would consider normal speed. I actually sweat'd quite a bit and it felt great to take a shower and clean up after a god work out. Today my assigned rehab doctor is on leave and I am meeting up with some other Doctor that is going to take me through the daily routine. But I am starting to feel that I might be able to push myself in ways that only I would know since it is my body. Obviously they know what to do with elderly people coming out of this surgery, but I am after all still a professional athlete. And have a much more intimate relationship with my body, so I know where to push and where not to. I have been improving on all the exercises and adding new ones that the Doctors here have never seen. So I guess that is adding to my fast recovery, I mean when I got up on the bike they were like? Are you sure you should be doing that? And I was like? Are you sure you should have me do other stuff that is way out of my league? So I have been able to find the middle ground and feel that the last couple of days have been very productive. I am hoping to get out of here on Friday and then hopefully soon I will be able to resume a normal life.

On my way to the Rehab!

It takes a while to start walking after having sat down for a while, but once I get going the pain kind of goes away. I am not supposed to film down here, so I kind of cut the video off before I get to the main point. But if you watched the small clip of me walking that I up loaded yesterday then, you can see what it looks like inside the rehab center. I have another 5 days left here, then I think I am checking out because I got some boys fighting up in Utsunomiya this Saturday. Although I am feeling a bit apprehensive about getting out in the real world, my doctors feel confident that I am ready for it. But today a Typhoon swept in over Tokyo and let me just say that I would not want to be walking around out there...

Sunday in a hospital

Feels like a Sunday just about anywhere else, I mean what is it about Sundays? It is like your whole life you are told to just chill on Sundays, so I like to just sleep in and try and do as little as possible. I still got woken up at 6:00 but stayed in bed until breakfast came in around 7:40. After that I have just been chatting on the computer, I only have on rehab session today and it is in the afternoon at 15:00. So I got lots of time to kill, unless friends start showing up like yesterday?

どこにいても、日曜日はやっぱり日曜日です。昔から日曜日の朝って早く起きたくないです、よーし！今日はどこかにいくぞ～って言われても、昼前に出た覚えないです。今日はでも、病院にいるのでいちよう朝６時におこされるんですけど、僕は朝ごはんが出るまで寝ていました。それから、アメリカにいる友達とチャットをしていました、それにしても。。。日曜日はやはり日曜日です。午後の１５時からリハビリが待っているので、それまでは映画でも見よか？ゲームでもやろうか？

One Week in here now!

After 7 days here things are going really well. Today I was really busy with all the friends that showed up and the rehab.

A week

It has been a week since I got here, and there has been lot going on since then. The rehab is almost militant, and I am making progress everyday.At first the results where suttle but the last two days I have made huge leaps. I am almost scared that I might be pushing it too hard, so I am going to take it a bit easy today. Try and not go too much over the edge, it is just in my blood. When I work out regardless if it is a rehab work out then I want to be able to push myself each step at the time. It has been almost a year since I have had something to work for and it is a great feeling just working towards some goal. My goal is to be able to walk out of here next week, get up on my bike and ride home! I think it is possible as long as I don't do anything stupid. When I broke my shin back in 2002 I spent 10 months recovering and had finally gotten able to kick the bag, when I started sparring and broke it again! after that it took me another year before I had the bolts taken out. So I have been there before, doing something out of place and paying the price. I don't want to go there again.


今日で一週間です、本当に成長したと思いながら。ひょっとしたらやり過ぎではないか？先生のもとでしかやっていないので安心しているけど、それでもやはり毎日毎日の成長はすごいです、昨日なんて寝返りが出来ました。傷口の上に寝ると、この病院のベッドはかたいので痛いですけど３６０°を回りましたことだけで感動しました。自分のベッドだったらテンピュールマットなのでかんぺき寝れたと思います。ま、それはあと一週間があれば自分のベッドで寝れます。本当に一年間で初めて目標に向かって頑張っている自分は楽しくってしょうがないです。出来たら、来週自分の足で退院してバイクに乗って家に帰りたいです。バイクと言えば、本来なら今日は仙台に行かなきゃいけないです、明日はＪＤ－Sterの次のレースです。僕は走れないので非常に残念に思いながら、Sherifさんに僕のハヤブサを貸してレースにエントリーするらしい。。。どのタイムが出るのは本当に楽しみです。今日もリハビリ頑張るぞう～！

6day reel

5th. day in hospital

It has been 3 days since the operation and I just graduated from the wheel chair. I am not sure if the pace is up to the standards of my own mind, but I am doing it. Although the pain is almost unbearable we all still push through and make it happen. I can actually feel slightly differences on a daily basis, it might be small things like getting in and out of my bed. It has become a lot easier, or putting on my training pants for the workout sessions, the pain is slowly fading and in its wake it is leaving a mark like an after burn. I wish I could get rid of the muscle soreness from having all my thigh muscles pulled out the way in order to expose the Themur, but that is probably going to take some more time.

オペから今３日がたちました、その３日で全く歩く自信ないから昨日は車椅子を卒業しました。本当に早いです、少し早すぎるんじゃないかと思ったけどイタイイタイを言いながらみんな頑張っていますので負けたくないです。いやいや、分かっているよ、これは勝ち負け関係ないですけど、となりで頑張っているおばあちゃんがいるとやはりもっとやらなきゃとのことになるよね。股関節の周りの筋肉はオペのときかなり引っ張られてのでそれで今だにいたいです、この痛みが取れれば普通に歩けると思いますが。。。まだまだですね！

Forgot this one!

I actually forgot to upload this one, it was just before! like literally 3 min. before they came and called me into surgery. My family showed up just in time, and that always makes you feel good. We all work on our own timing and tempo, but this time they were really cutting the edge close! Like they say better late than never, they saw me get out of the surgery but I was seriously drugged up and didn't know what was going on, so it was hard to tell what was going on during those hours.





この映像はアップしなかったけど、本当にタイミングよかったです。あと３分でオペ室に行くのに、ぎりぎり間に合ったよ。

Curry Rice Lunch

Todaya lunch was Curry rice ! Love Japanese Curry rice, it is very different from Indian curry but still really good.

I guess it is wednesday today

I has been less than 48 hours from the operation and I am feeling really tired and sore. I was made to walk yesterday, but seriously didn't feel like it. I think they are afraid of atrophy, so they have to move it as soon as possible. I am not going to lie about it, because it hurts like hell and it leaves you with a fever. I ended up sleeping from around 8:30 last night till this morning at 7:00 and then I have been going back and forth to the toilet all morning, in between just sleeping again. It has taken a lot more energy out of me than I had expected, but the more I think about what they actually did, then I guess that is to be expected. If I can just get through the next few days I should be feeling a whole better and then also be more mobile. right now I spend most of the time in my bed either sitting up or lying down, and they both hurt on my lower back...

今日はもう水曜日です、まだ４８時間が経ってないのに、意外と痛みになれたっと言うか本当に痛い中で何とか生活が出来るようになった。よくになっているのか座っているのか？どっちも腰が痛いです、もちろんオペしたところは痛いです、足が速く動かないです。トイレに行くのに１５分ぐらいかかります、でも、同じ階にいる人たちは同じオペをやっているので日々よくなっていくのを見るのは勇気を付けられる。昨日のリハビリは本当に大変でした、それで体は３８，５度熱うを出してぐったりでした。夜のごはんを食べて眠くなって、何と２０：３０にはもう寝ていました。そして、朝はだいぶ楽だったがまだこれで動かして、ぐったりさが出てきて先まで寝ていました。寝るのはいいことだと思うけど、何とかもう少し動かしたい気持ちです。本当ならプールに入りたいです。。。プールは気持ちよさそうですね。。。

done with the operation

Let me just tell you that this hurts a lot more than I had first expected it to...I guess I didn't really know what I was getting myself into. But now that is over there is only one thing to do, and that is to take it one minute at a time. I was about to say one step at a time, but that wont be happening until this afternoon. And I am not looking forward to that, it hurts like hell just moving the leg and inch right now, so imagine trying to walk on it...

a few hours to go now !

英語のレポートです！

Operation day!

It is about 7:53 in the morning now and I got woken up earlier to have my blood pressure and temperature taken. Now I am just sitting here in my room looking out at the rain forest right outside my room, knowing that this afternoon I will need all my will power and energy to get through this operation. Now the good news is that I will be knocked out during the whole procedure so when I wake up it will all be over! It is a bit like getting ready for a big fight, I had to go to bed early and staying away from my house I am away from the family. So now comes the waiting time, it is going to be one boring day until I get called in. I am third guy in line so it wont be until around 15:00 or so that they call me in, at about that time I will just be wishing for it to all be over. I am not allowed to eat anything since last night at around 21:00, and probably wont get anything until tomorrow morning...It is going to be a long day, but if I stay awake the most of the time it should make it easier to sleep tonight and that will be a blessing.

今日はオペの日です！さっき起こされて、体温と血圧をはかりました。本来ならカンチョウもしなければならないけど、僕は毎日出る方ですのでいいですと言われました。ラッキー！っていうか？カンチョウ経験ありますか？あれで３０分我慢してと言われるけど。。。絶対に無理ですよ！（笑）本当に無理です！昨日の２１：００からごはんは禁止されていて、何と今がもうお腹がすいているのにオペは午後の１５：００以降ですので明日の朝まで何も食べられないかも？いや～それはオペより辛いかも。。。この前ブログに乗せたたんたん麺が食べたいです！今日は朝早くから起きているので我慢すれば夜眠れるかも？今日だけは本当に寝たいです、オペのあとの夜はいつも辛いです。だから、昨日はネットを遅い時間までいじって、最後は映画を見て寝ました。そして、今朝早く起こされてから起きています、午後の体力はいっぱい使うと眠さで何とか夜はぐっすり寝たいな～！出来たら、ばくすいしたいです。その言葉に憧れています、この二年間はばくすい何回かしかできたないです。股関節の痛みで目がさめる時は多かったです、だから本当に久しぶりに朝まで寝た時は覚えています。朝になって目が覚めた時に？？？あれ？今何時？８：３５。。。マジで、嬉しいって感じでした。このオペがうまくいけば、これからは毎日朝まで寝たいです。

English report from Hospital !

今回はちょっとしたバイリングアルでやりました！

Forgot my pillow

I was on my way into the hospital and forgot my pillow...