“I’m in trouble here”: Hughesy recalls disastrous surfing accident
Dave Hughes has recalled the details of a horrific surfing accident on New Year’s Eve, that resulted in him being rushed to hospital in excruciating pain.
Speaking candidly on his Hughesy, Ed & Erin radio show, the 53-year-old shared what happened on the Surfers Paradise beach as he was ringing in the New Year.
He told his co-hosts Erin Molan and Ed Kavalee that he was having surfing lessons when the disaster unfolded.
“It’s New Year’s Eve, I decide to go surfing and I crash on a huge wave,” Hughesy began.
“We’ve all got out big boards, and the problem is, the boards are too big.”
“So, and, I didn’t listen properly when the instructor said, ‘If you’re going to fall off your board, fall off backwards, don’t fall off forwards’.”
“And I didn’t really realise why, but I found out why.”
While still sporting a sling on his arm from the accident, Hughesy explained that he fell forwards off a wave, and the surfboard took the next wave, which was directly behind him.
“The board got a really good wave and the board smashed into my back and dislocated my shoulder,” he said.
“I was immediately like, ‘I am in trouble here’.”
“The instructor saw me and said, ‘are you okay?’ and I said, ‘I don’t think so.’”
“He started laughing! And I’m like, ‘no, I’m really, I’m really in pain’.”
Still trying to keep his sense of humour through the ordeal, Hughesy described the pain as “worse than childbirth”, with the situation only getting worse when he “sat on the beach crying for an hour” waiting for the ambulance to arrive.
Hughesy first shared the news of his accident in the days after he was released from hospital, sharing a series of photos to his Instagram from the fateful day.
He shared that he had "morphine and the rest of them" after enduring "two hours of the worst pain of my life", thanking the hospital staff who treated him, as well as the Surfers Paradise Surf Club before admitting he will "be in a sling for a while".
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