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Message: [QUOTE="McHunt, post: 3344498, member: 9853"] [I][B]Te Maire Martin:[/B][/I] “It’s been a long two-and-a-half years trying to get back on track. You don’t realise how much you’ll miss footy, the club and the boys, until it’s gone. When it’s gone for nearly three years you really feel it and miss it. You hear people say they’re excited to be back but I’m truly really happy to be back and fortunate to have the opportunity to come here with Brisbane. With the scans I’ve had, the risk of me doing it again is just like anyone else doing it. That was a game changer for me when I heard that. There is just as much chance as anyone else getting a brain bleed like I had. I’ve had the noggin whacked a few times and it’s been all good. It’s not what I want to do, running around hitting my head on walls, but to get through that contact stuff is hard to explain. I’m really stoked.” “When I first had it and got the scans, the doctor said I had a bleed. I was asking how long I’d be out for and if I’d be right for the next game and he said ‘you’ll probably be out for the rest of the year. That was the hardest bit, not being able to play when I really wanted to. I couldn’t go outside, I was sensitive to light so I was locking myself in the room. My parents had to come over and cook me meals. The specialist at the time said they couldn’t pin down what happened. If I got hit in the head by someone they could say that’s what it was from and if you let it heal you’ll be back. But they couldn’t put their finger on how it happened. They went through all the video and I never got a big hit to the head. No one said I’d be out forever and couldn’t play again.” “I was doing a lot of surfing, pig hunting and fishing, keeping myself busy. But that doesn’t pay any bills so I had to go and find myself a job. We didn’t get along too well — me and working. The only healing I could do for it was to rest. I got a job pushing sand with big machines. It was 12 hours a day sitting down so that healed it pretty well. I did that for a year and then carried on with the scans and it got better with the rest and no contact. The specialist gave me the green light at the end of last year. I’m stoked that’s over because I was pretty much paying rent in the MRI machines. It’s good to get out of those.” “I’ll take it on-board a bit more. I had a lot of games where I could have done a lot more but I was staying in my safe zone. When I went up to the Cowboys I had people like Johnathan Thurston and Michael Morgan, all you wanted to do was play next to them. You didn’t want to overcall them or anything like that. Now that I’ve been away from the game, you realise you don’t get those chances back. I want to take the opportunity when it comes and make the most of it because it can be gone at any second.” McHunt [/QUOTE]

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