Streamer Who Broke Back At TwitchCon Shows Off Scar, Details Recovery
Adriana Chechik, who made headlines earlier this month after she broke her back in two places at TwitchCon, has returned to streaming with some updates—and a close look—at how her recovery has been going.
Chechik broke her back at TwitchCon after jumping into a foam pit, a seemingly-innocuous move that, thanks to the reported shallowness of the pit, resulted in her smashing her tailbone on the floor so hard that her “bones completely crushed,” fusing multiple vertebrae together and suffering “nerve damage to [her] bladder.”
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Her recovery process has been rough. Here’s what she wrote on October 13 after a physical therapy session:
Tried sitting up today in PT, I would rather die than do that again. I hate this my whole body hates it. I don’t want to be tough. I don’t want to be brave I cried for a hour and the pain is so immense through all the meds im on. Idk if I can do this. I can’t explain this pain.
Chechik, now home after multiple surgeries—one which lasted for over five hours—returned to Twitch over the weekend to give further updates on the injury, its consequences, and how she’s doing weeks after the accident.
In this clip, Chechik mentions how she is still out of breath doing even the simplest daily tasks, before showing off a huge scar that runs down the centre of her back:
Adrianna Chechik has returned to stream for the first time since breaking her back in the foam pit at Twitch Con
She shows chat the scar left on her back from surgery pic.twitter.com/C3u2sRbReQ— GUARD Hunter (@HUN2R) October 30, 2022
Later, while streaming games on Twitch, she says that tests conducted on her while in hospital revealed that she had been unknowingly pregnant at the time of the injury. She then lost the baby due to the surgery required on her spine:
With her first return stream to Twitch after the incident at TwitchCon left her with a broken back
Adriana Chechik revealed she found out she was pregnant once visiting the doctor, she could not keep the kid due to the surgery she had to undergo pic.twitter.com/iLEcD2zvt1— Jake Lucky (@JakeSucky) October 30, 2022
In the wake of this and other injuries suffered at the event, neither Twitch (organisers of TwitchCon) or Kairos Media (the creative agency actually running the booth) have commented publicly.
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