Noelle Foley, the daughter of wrestling legend Mick Foley, defined how a visit to Dollywood set her on a terrifying, years-long medical journey.
Throughout an look on the “Rulebreakers” podcast, hosted by wrestling star Saraya, on Thursday, August 14, Noelle, 31, mentioned it began with a nasty expertise on a roller-coaster on the Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, theme park.
“Usually roller-coasters, they go up they usually go down after which they fizzle out,” Noelle defined. “This one went up, down after which instantly went again up. It's like your physique is forcing ahead after which instantly backwards. My head hit actually laborious and one thing occurred with my neck.”
Noelle mentioned one thing felt “stretched out” on the perimeters of her neck, which was in contrast to something she had ever felt.
“I've by no means gotten a concussion earlier than, at the very least I don't suppose I've,” Noelle mentioned. “I used to be identical to, ‘I really feel so drained. I would like to fall asleep.' So I simply received a bunch of ice cubes and put them throughout my head, the again of my neck and down my physique, simply to wake myself up.”
She added, “It took me about two months to comprehend that I had a concussion. I used to be identical to, ‘This headache just isn't going away and I'm so delicate to lights and sound. I really feel all bizarre.'”
Noelle defined she's had a headache for the final five-and-a-half years, for the reason that roller-coaster damage occurred.
After seeing “round 50” totally different docs and bodily therapists, Noelle was recognized with a uncommon neck situation referred to as Craniocervical instability.
“We came upon I tore about 10 ligaments in my neck and due to these torn ligaments, it causes my neck to be unstable,” she mentioned. “My head isn't securely on my neck. Then all of your different muscle tissues are overcompensating. So these muscle tissues are in all probability inflicting the complications.”
After struggling to search out the basis reason behind her complications for years, Noelle theorized her breast implants have been accountable — so she had them eliminated.
“It's bizarre, as a result of I used to be fully nice and fully regular earlier than my concussion,” Noelle mentioned. “Then my concussion occurred and it was virtually like an avalanche of points simply began after that. I really feel like [with] the implants, some situation was perhaps brewing after which the concussion was a boulder that broke the camel's again.”
Noelle detailed the extraordinary technique of eradicating her implants as a result of they have been “caught on my sides.”
“They needed to scrape it off,” she defined. “The edges of my boobs have been so sore for months.”
