Creed Fisher, The Road to Recovery Pt. 2

This episode captures the inspiring journey of Creed Fisher, who shares his experiences recovering from a serious motorcycle accident, including his surgeries and the newfound respect for life and the road. The hosts discuss the importance of support systems, the humor found in dark times, and the resilience necessary to rebuild life after trauma.

• Fisher's motorcycle accident and its impact on his life
• The importance of respect in the motorcycle community
• Recovering from surgery and facing fears
• Finding humor in serious situations
• The role of support from family and friends
• The challenges of reinvention after trauma
• Plans for the future and upcoming tours

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Transcript

Riding, Wrecks, and Recovery

Speaker 1 0:00

I put a blessing on it to real. This ain't metaphoric. We just put the I in iconic buzzing like I'm electronic. Ah yeah, I put a blessing on it. See me dripping in it 24-7 on it. I'm just being honest. Ah, holy water dripping, dripping from my neck to my creps. So I'm too stepping on it like.

Speaker 2 0:16

Oh, we are All right. Hey everybody, Welcome back to the Ramblin' Gypsy podcast, my Ramblin' Gypsy Podcast.

Speaker 3 0:27

My name is Tiffany Foy and we are doing part two of the Road to Recovery with Creed Fisher, Hi Tiff hey.

Speaker 2 0:30

Thanks for having me, thanks for being here.

Speaker 3 0:32

It's good to be here.

Speaker 2 0:33

We left the last episode and I was flooding up the room over here, you had my eyes leaking and talking about all the things.

Speaker 3 0:42

The hard times we've had. Yeah, now we've got to talk about the good times.

Speaker 2 0:48

So we ended talking about the respect of the road, so to speak.

Speaker 3 0:59

I don't even think we kind of got really into the respect of the road, on being back on two wheels, because we both ride motorcycles and we both had a wreck.

Speaker 2 1:04

Yes. A a wreck, yes, a significant wreck and you came out saying that you definitely have a different view, a different outlook, a different respect for the road. I also came out of mine thinking what in the fuck and who?

Speaker 2 1:20

do you think you are. You are now playing with a deck of cards that you should never have been playing with and I was grateful for the ones that I was dealt because I was able to come out and we're still. We're both sitting here today Multiple surgeries, all kinds of titanium metal plates, you name it. You set off alarms at the airport.

Speaker 2 1:43

I set them. Yeah, yes, but it is good to have a respect for the road. I think that a lot of people come out of accidents and things like we did and they absolutely don't. I don't understand that.

Speaker 3 2:00

I think for bikers it's not a matter of when but if. Not a matter of if, but when. Rather I got that backwards. It's not a matter of if, but when, and so we've both been down to get hurt like we did. I mean, if that doesn't change your perspective, then nothing will. Nothing will.

Speaker 2 2:23

I could not agree with that more.

Speaker 3 2:27

I love riding my motorcycle, you know, and I realized that there's so many distracted drivers on the road these days. You know, and you can't control everyone else, but where we live in New Braunfels it's such a beautiful place to ride a motorcycle.

Speaker 2 2:41

Very much so.

Speaker 3 2:41

So I think I'll just stick to riding around here, you know, because I still have people. Oh, creed, you know, when you come here let's go ride. Well, no, the last time I did that I had to take a vacation.

Speaker 2 2:55

Right On a pass, yeah, one that was unplanned.

Speaker 3 2:59

An unplanned vacation? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 3:01

Yep, the country roads back here definitely are are beautiful and there is a ton of places that we can still go ride me. On the other hand, we are in deer country, regardless of what season it is, and that's one thing I still. I'm not going to say I haven't, because I told you I screwed up and down on my Vespa. Look, I love my Vespa and we have motorcycles galore, but there is something about I have always wanted one. I'm an old soul I should have been in the Janis Joplin era by far is where I feel like I should have been born and hanging out with yes very much so, and so I'm the VW bug, the VW bus, but I love my Vespa.

Speaker 1 3:56

The Gypsy.

Speaker 2 3:57

Yeah, this is my 250 GT. And I tell you what if I don't get a from the boys? Yeah, when I'm on my scooter I'm mad, I'm mad on my look. I can hang with y'all. I can hang with y'all, yeah, but I have, I have ridden it. Like you said, river Road we talked about, and that's our resort, is on River Road and I did a fall festival in a pumpkin patch for a long time and I would dress up as a scarecrow and I would leave the the fall fest on with painted up and as a scarecrow on my Vespa at wee hours late. And so I have. But deer are just as stupid and as scary as someone on the road on their cell phone.

Speaker 3 4:46

I think, animals in general anything can jump out in the hill country, when you ride at night, a lot of these animals are nocturnal. So I, the way I look at it was when I ride down river road I'm going 20 or 30 miles an hour, you know, and I'll take my chances right uh, there's a lot of fences and things. I just feel like, uh, even if something happens, I, I feel like I could navigate it, whereas if I feel like if I was on 306, going 50, 55, 60 right and a deer runs out in front of me there, you're fucked you don't know what's going to happen.

Speaker 3 5:23

I'm going to hit the gas and go straight through it, right, I mean I'm dead where. I mean the wrecks I've had. I mean I'm going to go straight through it. I'm going to hit the gas and try to go as fast as I can and just go, just go yeah I'm not going to swerve for sure, but it's, that's one of the biggest uh dangers. I think riding bikes here in the hill country is all the critters.

Speaker 2 5:47

Yeah, and they are whether on two wheels or four wheels.

Speaker 3 5:53

Even armadillos that get run over by cars. My buddy's pointing them out with his foot as we go by, right.

Speaker 2 6:01

At least he's giving you a point.

Speaker 3 6:04

Everybody needs that exactly, exactly.

Speaker 2 6:07

So you, um, you we left off talking about um you had a screw loose I had. I mean, I got all kinds of loose, but it was in my it was in my buttocks, right it wasn't in my head. Yeah, did you know that it was coming loose? Yeah or were you just thinking?

Speaker 3 6:29

it's the second one, so I was hoping it wasn't and I was trying to be as still as possible. It's not easy for me at all, you know.

Speaker 2 6:38

That was like I can absolutely relate.

Surgery Screw and Recovery

Speaker 3 6:39

It was one of the worst things, because they dump you off at home and they say, don't move, you know this leg. And then you have to pee and you realize, well, the leg has to go with me to go pee and so you try not to move it, and you I mean you do the best you can, but you have to live your life still. And so I went back the second time after the second surgery, and I was keeping my fingers crossed, I was praying, so did you did you?

Speaker 2 7:11

you didn't go back to the same physician? No, obviously because I was in Texas now.

Speaker 3 7:17

And so the first time I went back to the doctor to get x-rayed after I'd had the surgery the second surgery I was nervous. Yeah, no one wants a third surgery. No, I was ready for this thing to be done. And so I go in there and I knew I hadn't been good, I'd been less good than before.

Speaker 2 7:40

He was less gooders what he meant to say.

Speaker 3 7:42

I was man, because I went back on the road and I had actually stood up. Yes, you know and hopped around and jumped off the stage actually one time, but I landed on the good one.

Speaker 2 7:52

I might have been there after the second surgery watching you.

Speaker 3 7:56

That was actually yes. That was the first time I stood up, yes, and so I wasn't sure if it was still in there or not. You know Shit, and I go in there and he's like he comes back in and I'm waiting. I'm sweating it, man, I'm sweating it like a lot.

Speaker 2 8:11

I don't know if your doctor is as raw as mine, but you told me about yours. Oh yeah, he knows me all too well and he tells me he said you think your knee surgery was fucking bad. He said you think your knee surgery was fucking bad. He said keep fucking around, and when you walk out and you're holding that hip joint in your hand, I don't want to hear your shit.

Speaker 3 8:30

And I was like, wow, yes, sir, let me go home and get a cane then.

Speaker 2 8:33

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 8:34

That was the best part of it. I didn't know my doctors, and so the second time I'm just I'm nervous. I'm sitting there waiting.

Speaker 2 8:43

You feel like you're getting yelled at by your mom, I'm nervous man.

Speaker 3 8:47

I'm sitting there waiting on the judgment, the story, the truth. And he comes in, he pops this thing on. First thing I notice is the screw is not in there all the way.

Speaker 1 9:10

I'm devastated for like 10 seconds.

Speaker 3 9:11

No, I'm serious, that was a lot of devastation I'm devastated, yeah, literally devastated. I think I'm gonna have to have the whole damn surgery again. And he comes in, he's like all right, and he pulls it up. And he blows it up, he's like so this thing moved and it came out a little. He said but look, we still have this much that's still in the bone and your pelvis is still intact with your spinal cord, because before, when the screw had come out, there was a space there, so my pelvis was still together, but the screw had come out some. Oh my goodness, when I saw that at first, I literally almost died and I was just so happy to call my family because everyone was waiting to hear the news.

Speaker 3 10:01

I couldn't go back on tour. I was supposed to leave two days later to go back on tour.

Speaker 2 10:05

So your screw's a tiny bit out.

Speaker 3 10:07

It came out some.

Speaker 2 10:08

And so what?

Speaker 3 10:10

He said just move around as little as possible. It's not a point now where we want to go back in and mess with it. We're going to just if it stays where it's at, you'll be okay. You'll fuse back together and you'll be okay. And I was like all right, and I called my family and everybody was excited. I went back on the road and I did exactly what I wasn't supposed to do.

Speaker 1 10:36

We are so much alike.

Speaker 2 10:36

Yeah, back on the road and I did exactly what I wasn't supposed to do?

Speaker 3 10:38

I moved around a bunch we are so much older, yeah and so the second time I went back, I was really nervous because I felt like I had done more than I should have.

Speaker 2 10:45

Could you feel it? I mean, did you know that it was no? Uh-uh. See, that's mind-boggling to me. I feel it now.

Speaker 3 10:52

I can feel it now it I can feel it now it's right there.

Speaker 1 10:54

So which way you can feel the screw.

Speaker 3 10:56

Yeah, I can feel it Because it feels like a bone, because I was feeling my hips.

Speaker 2 11:03

I'm like why do I have something over here on this side that I don't have on this side? So the screw goes from the front to the back.

Speaker 3 11:06

It goes from kind of the back into your hip, okay.

Speaker 2 11:12

At an angle.

Speaker 3 11:12

So imagine, like on the side you go back a little more and then into your hip, so I have what feels like a bone on that side and it's not on the other side. I was like oh, this is screwed, and so the last time I went he was like all right, it stayed. And I was like oh wow.

Speaker 2 11:39

I did gymnastics.

Speaker 3 11:41

Yogas I had an orgy yeah, probably wasn't the plan there, you know, with the hips. Yeah, no, I was excited. The second time I called everybody my mom, my daughter and was like all right, I'm good, because I knew I was fused at that point. And so that time he was like all right, go do everything, workout, walk, physical therapy.

Speaker 2 12:07

And this was November 4th. I was going to say this was right. And so, and he said, this was shortly after we had the first time and he said maybe one day after we had the first time.

Speaker 3 12:16

Yeah, shortly after the lesson.

Speaker 2 12:17

Right.

Speaker 3 12:18

And he said maybe one day I might need that screw pulled out if it bothers me. And so that's where we're at now. I'm fused back, I'm fused together. I've actually jogged a little. I don't jog, just want you to know that. I just wanted to know if I could. So I didn't go very far, and if I'm running, you need to run. I just want you to know.

Speaker 2 12:40

Because I can't run and don't want to.

Speaker 3 12:42

I am not running period. I don't know what's chasing me, but it's bigger and better than me.

Speaker 2 12:45

I still am not going to run, we're going to sit down, we're going to talk about it, I'm not running nowhere, I can't. No, it hurts we, it hurts we would hide before we would run. No, I'd just sit down and be like okay, what, what is it? Turn the lights off. They're going to give me a migraine, they're affecting my eyes. I get the whole screw loose thing, one about domestic violence and things of that nature. But that led me to the first surgery. Second surgery I whooped someone yeah, you've said it in a way yeah.

Speaker 3 13:46

That's a whole other podcast.

Speaker 2 13:47

Led me to the second surgery, and it was because I had no pivoting motion. I had no nothing. The first surgery was done completely wrong.

Speaker 3 13:57

I relate to that.

Speaker 2 13:58

Yeah, so did the second one. Within 24 to 36 hours I could do so much more than I could after seven months of the first surgery. That's awesome, but on the very front of my leg they had to take everything out. It was supposed to be a two and a half hour surgery, it ended up being six and a half hours. I knew my orthopedic surgeon very, very well. He's a very good friend of mine and there was a screw in the very front of my shin that was slowly starting to protrude and so you could look my little chicken legs. You could look at my leg and you could see the Phillips head the top of it, right.

Speaker 3 14:42

And.

Speaker 2 14:42

I'm such a good friend with this guy and we would ride all the time, hang out, and I was like, hey, what are we going to do this thing? I hit it on everything. I mean it's like I run in and you could just feel it. I mean you're just're, oh, my gosh, it was horrible. And um, he's such a you've got to be a certain person, in my opinion, to be a surgeon and do what they do. I mean they're filleting open the human body they're doing, and it's just, it's gross, it's nasty. And the things body they're doing, and it's gross, it's nasty.

Speaker 3 15:17

And the things they can do. It's unbelievable Because my incision was very small and it wasn't really and it's not even right, exactly over where they actually put the screw in Right. The things that they can do today is just nuts man.

Speaker 2 15:35

Well, the further out that screw kept coming. He said you know what that thing has been in there so long. He said we can sit down on the living room floor and I'll just put grit out my drill.

Speaker 2 15:47

No, and I was like first of all, no this is how freaking cuckoo these surgeons are and I've become good friends is how freaking cuckoo these surgeons are and I'm I've become good friends. I'm not like the way that me and my or this worth it was. But my hip and knee doctor and I've told him that story and he's like, oh yeah, you just drill it right out. I was like, what are you saying? And yeah, and I had a pin come out of my ankle.

Speaker 3 16:12

I like to say that with youtube.

Speaker 2 16:14

Yeah, hold my beer and watch this shit. This is what we do in Texas. Yeah, I had one of the pins on the side. I have seven screws and I had two pins in my ankle from the bike wreck and one of the pins same deal and I would text him. He's now not in Texas anymore and I text him and I would send this. I was like it's coming out Like I not in Texas anymore and I text him and I would send this. I was like it's coming out Like I have like this. It was like it wasn't a big abscess but because that's a disgusting word, but it was enough to where you could almost like a little blister on the side. And he was like oh, that's probably just one of your pins. And he was like what you need to do is just get you it. I'll love me some whiskey. I'll drink me some cocktails.

Speaker 2 16:54

He's like have you a nice little whiskey on the ice and he was like and just give it Back into the middle ages, right here. Just give it a good push and I said excuse me Back in. Do you want me to put yeah, push it back in. I said nope. Well, it had gone on for about a year.

Speaker 3 17:10

How about a hammer For real Tapping and tap For a break? Tap it in, just tap it in, you got a nice soft mallet, maybe Exactly A soft mallet.

Speaker 2 17:19

You guys are fucking crazy.

Speaker 3 17:21

Well, I was in a hotel Is that tequila, that's what we're going to name for that.

Speaker 2 17:27

This way Doesn't matter where I was. Anyways, I had gotten up, taken a super hot shower and I'm talking I like the boiling hot where you come out and I look like I have just burnt my skin completely off, especially during the winter months. But I had come out of the bathtub or the shower and had stepped over the bathtub and I heard I snagged on the edge when I was lifting my leg over, because it's my right leg, so I was stepping left to right over and I felt this like you would snag your button on and I bend down and it's sticking out of my ankle about.

Speaker 3 18:13

Yeah, Damn it.

Speaker 2 18:16

I mean not quite a half inch, that's crazy. So I get on the phone. I call him immediately.

Speaker 3 18:23

And I'm like SOS SOS.

Speaker 2 18:25

And he's like what is wrong with you? Bionic woman over here, yeah, and he said just push it. I said what he said just push it. So I pushed the entire screw pin. This is a pin, not a screw. I push it completely out of my leg. And my husband had gone downstairs to go grab us mimosas and Bloody Mary and I opened up the door. I'm going to need two.

Speaker 2 18:53

I'm white as a fucking ghost and I'm just standing there and he's like what's wrong with you, what's wrong with you? And I have it in my hand and he was like oh god, and he knew exactly what it was. He's like wait what you just took this out of your leg and I was like yeah, I did and it was insane do you don't hear that every day.

Speaker 3 19:13

No, so.

Speaker 2 19:14

So when you say that you're Listen, Well, you got a Phillips head you got a square If that screw comes out of my butt cheek.

Speaker 3 19:21

What kind of bit do we need? We're going to have a problem. Terminator.

Speaker 2 19:24

What kind of bit do we need to get.

Speaker 3 19:27

Yeah, look, listen.

Speaker 2 19:28

AI, but that by far was probably Because it would rub on everything. I mean, it just kept kind of protruding, that's what it was. It was just protruding yourself out there and he was like ah, you don't need it anymore, you've been fine, it's been in there for long enough, you're fine. I was like what do you mean?

Speaker 1 19:47

They never want to go back.

Speaker 2 19:47

When they say your screw's loose, it means there's something wrong.

Speaker 1 19:50

You're telling that's been in there for so long, then what did you?

Speaker 3 19:54

put it in there for.

Speaker 2 19:56

It's just going to keep swimming around.

Speaker 3 19:57

my body Did you put some Loctite on there For real.

Speaker 2 20:01

Like a tube at the Hyatt, just going to keep going round and round and round A lock pin something. A lock nut would have been nice on the end. Who gave y'all permission just to say this no, it's fine If it just wants to float around, you'll.

Speaker 3 20:17

Your body will spit it out. Your body will just spit it out.

Speaker 2 20:19

It'll spit it out eventually, yeah sure, right outside your epidermis. Yeah, so we can't have any more surgeries.

Speaker 3 20:27

I just want to let you know what you have to look forward to. Yeah, we can't have any more surgeries.

Speaker 1 20:32

When they start popping out your body.

Speaker 2 20:37

What your doctor is gonna say yeah, fuck it. Just grab your drill and back her right on out.

Speaker 3 20:41

No, I'm gonna make my appointment now I'm gonna need a follow-up every six months. Gotta come out of my butt. Cheek. What if I'm on the road? Just don't got a screw just don't snag it on.

Speaker 2 20:53

Just got a screw pop out of my butt, cheek listen. Do you know how I how much I deal with fake imposter creed fishers?

Speaker 1 20:55

Just don't snag it on something Just got a screw pop out of my butt. Cheek, listen. Carry a toolkit with you, right Listen.

Speaker 3 20:58

Do you know how much I deal with fake imposter Creed Fishers? If I pop a screw on my butt, cheek people are going to think I'm some android, you know. I told you Creed's been there.

Speaker 1 21:10

I'm going to have to get verified again.

Speaker 3 21:13

All my social medias will go down.

Speaker 2 21:15

Yeah, They'll be Again all my social medias will go down. Yeah, this isn't really Creed Fisher.

Speaker 3 21:18

This is an Android I had to get fingerprinted.

Speaker 2 21:23

You should have those little cards, didn't they? Give you little cards that you got to carry in your wallet that say you got, I didn't get that. Well, I had to get those with the full replacements that I just had.

Speaker 3 21:35

Oh yeah, yeah, that tell the people at the airport. She that I just had. Oh yeah, yeah, that's all the people at the airport. She's not a terrorist.

Speaker 2 21:39

No, she's not Okay, and you know, ironically, and my husband said it every time or any time but anybody that's ever traveled with me through the airport, it never fails. The one area that sets off the alarm is my vagina.

Speaker 3 22:00

There's no metal in my we have a metal vagina over here we're gonna need a.

Speaker 2 22:06

Stacy and um yeah. I need that wand you got oh my lord, seriously, do you want to go in the room cause we're gonna have to strip you? Nope, I'm pretty sure I've already told you, everyone has seen you.

Speaker 3 22:20

Well, listen, I told you, I got a titanium pelvis.

Speaker 2 22:24

Yeah.

Speaker 3 22:24

And they'll show you that screen. It just shows that little bleeping thing right up near nether regions and it's like you don't want to know what's down there buddy, those down there, buddy, those are balls of steel this motherfucker's setting this thing off for a reason.

Speaker 2 22:40

Uh-huh, oh my god yeah yeah, it's warning the people I'm going to see right now we are going to have a good time, by the way yeah, are you going to vegas?

Speaker 3 22:49

no, going to nashville, it's better than vegas yeah, no shit if you can't get laid in nashville. You need to hang up the cleats.

Speaker 2 22:57

I'll leave it there I tell you what this last trip that we took to nashville, nick and I, um and I guess I just didn't really pay that much of attention the many times that I've been before, but this last go around we, um, we were talking to the girl that does my hair and Nick's hair and everybody that I send her to. I used to take care of her when she was a tiny baby and she's literally like my daughter. She's the sweetest thing ever, amber, and she's one of those that she remembers everything. She remembers every hotel she's ever been to. She should be a travel agent. She's just got all these amazing hidden secrets. She goes and does and and they'll take these little trips and she hits them all. It's so cute. And we were talking about nashville and she said you know, that's like the number one bachelorette place where they all go. I was like no, why?

Speaker 3 23:53

From all over the world.

Speaker 2 23:54

Yes.

Speaker 3 23:55

Not just from Wisconsin. Right Not just from Maine, or said Florida.

Speaker 2 24:02

Yeah.

Speaker 3 24:03

Bangladesh, Tokyo. I had no idea, no idea. Listen, that's why I said this If you can't score in Nashville, you need to hang up the cleats. They should send men there to study this.

Speaker 2 24:15

When Nick and I landed To train this last go-round it was literally like we were really, really paying attention. They were fucking everywhere If there was not one, sashay there was 14 princesses with their crowns.

Speaker 3 24:29

And they all come to make bad decisions. They don't want to go home without a story.

Speaker 1 24:35

Somebody's already getting married, so is it that they go there to bang a musician the night? They don't want to go home without a story Right.

Speaker 3 24:36

Somebody's already getting married. Yeah, they're your first.

Speaker 2 24:39

They are not the married ones. So is it that they go there to bang a musician the night before they get married? I mean, is that what's happening?

Speaker 3 24:43

No, bang anybody, that's my point They'll settle for a janitor from Kentucky.

Speaker 2 24:51

Is that your broom?

Speaker 3 24:52

Oh, my God. That's a nice broom, oh your broom oh my God, that's a nice broom.

Speaker 2 24:55

Oh, I was.

Speaker 3 24:56

I knew Elvis back in the day.

Speaker 2 24:58

Yeah, oh, my God.

Speaker 1 25:00

Elvis is, elvis is Elvis is.

Speaker 2 25:05

I cannot. I removed Elvis's pelvis.

Speaker 3 25:08

I'm Morgan Wallen's cousin. There's all kinds of angles, mama. There's all kinds of angles.

Speaker 2 25:15

It is all about them. Angles.

Speaker 3 25:17

I'm telling you, hang them up. Hang them cleats up if you can't make this work.

Speaker 2 25:22

Yeah, I really didn't realize that that was.

Speaker 3 25:26

Oh, it's a thing, it's definitely a thing.

Speaker 2 25:28

I mean, they were everywhere and we went. We stayed an extra day or two to go visit with my nephew in there and it was wild, I was, but I would have never known. You spend a lot of time in Nashville, don't you?

Speaker 3 25:44

If I could start a business, I would open a boot business in Nashville. Every girl I don't care if she's from Idaho or Pennsylvania she's going to buy a pair of boots in Nashville and she's not going to have anything on from them. Boots to her quads, like there's nothing over her knees. No new caps New caps are exposed. Yeah, and that's the same outfit everywhere. It's like the women are not even allowed to wear something else. I don't even know. You know some guys on the side holding a sign Dress code required.

Speaker 2 26:27

It is like I swear, it cannot be covered. You have to be six inches down from the badge. You talk about diversity.

Speaker 3 26:39

Everything's diverse except the outfits. It's the same outfit and 1,400 different people.

Speaker 1 26:45

It's going into outfit and 1,400 different people.

Speaker 3 26:47

It's going into a subdivision, yeah, and just all the characters in between the guy right outside the bar that's holding the sign that says I'm saving for a penile reduction Just all kinds of characters, man.

Speaker 2 27:01

You've actually seen that sign.

Speaker 3 27:02

Oh yes, and people were giving him money because they were laughing and they thought it was funny. Five years he was saving up for a penile reduction. Five years he's still hadn't got it. He's just there still with the same sign. I'm thinking this guy's more jack than all of us, he's full of it jesus christ, we're in the wrong business.

Speaker 2 27:22

He's doing it. On layaway yeah, a little bit at a time, a little payment plan.

Speaker 3 27:26

It's a true story though Golly. There's all kinds there.

Speaker 1 27:29

All right, so road to recovery, y'all.

Speaker 2 27:32

Yep, so our screws are loose, yours is half hanging out.

Speaker 3 27:37

I think I'm good, I think I'm solid, I think I'm healing. I think I might have that screw removed, though, eventually, because it just feels like it's a little sensitive on that side.

Speaker 1 27:50

Yeah.

Speaker 3 27:51

Yeah, in the back part. But as far as like where I wear, it just was you know, like coming from, like not being able to walk, and November 4th getting to walk, and now it's February and I feel like I could run.

Speaker 2 28:11

Your therapy regimen from first surgery to second surgery did it change?

Speaker 3 28:21

No, it was still sit your ass down. When you need to take a shit, get up. Other than that, stay sitting.

Speaker 2 28:30

Stay sitting.

Speaker 3 28:32

They don't have any answers. You know what if I need a drink?

Speaker 2 28:36

Yeah.

Speaker 3 28:38

Leave the leg in the chair, evidently so how long after the?

Speaker 2 28:44

second surgery. How far out from the second surgery are you now?

Speaker 3 28:49

I had the second surgery on Labor Day, september, so it was in September. So it's been, I'm thinking, three months, maybe four months September.

Speaker 2 29:00

October, november is when they said you can stand.

Speaker 3 29:03

November 4th. Now I was walking a little before then, but that was pretty much the date, November 4th, and I started walking again, and then it was after that when I could put weight on it. You have all your restrictions lifted.

Speaker 1 29:17

Right.

Speaker 3 29:18

You can do anything that doesn't hurt or you don't want to, you know.

Speaker 2 29:22

Trust your body, trust your body, that's what they told me. Trust your body, trust your body that's what they told me Trust your body Absolutely.

Speaker 3 29:25

Yep, and so ever since then I've been in the gym. But I was in the gym before then, to be honest with you. I was in the gym on crutches. You told us Grown men were giving me props man Guys I probably would have never talked to.

Speaker 2 29:38

Yeah, yeah, buddy, do you yeah.

Speaker 3 29:41

Yeah, you got people out there that won't walk in here. You're crutching in here, yes, and so that was funny to be honest with you, because I'm usually in the gym. I'm just like I don't make friends, I'm just blind. No, I contact you I talk to a few people here and there, if they talk to me.

Speaker 2 29:58

Yeah, I'm an trying to work out and go home. Right, do you feel like you could have gone one way or another after your accident, where you could have just given up and said what made you decide that you're going to let them put you back together, get up and do what?

Speaker 1 30:28

you do and be the.

Speaker 2 30:28

Creed.

Speaker 3 30:29

Fisher Was it for you personally?

Speaker 2 30:31

Was it for your fans?

Speaker 3 30:32

Was it for so many people?

Speaker 2 30:35

get struck and get knocked down and they completely give up and they say you know what, fuck it, I'm done.

Speaker 1 30:41

I'm going to give up.

Speaker 3 30:41

I think for me personally, the fact that I wasn't paralyzed went a long way with me to say okay, I'm going to deal with this pain because I know one day I'm going to be better, whereas if I had been paralyzed, I can't answer that question.

Speaker 1 31:04

Right.

Speaker 3 31:04

I don't know that I would be sitting here right now. I probably wouldn't be. Yeah, I would probably be bitter as hell and I don't know what that journey looks like. I mean, it's funny. Another funny story, I'll be fast with it. But when I was in the hospital, there was four people there. There was Chuck, my bass player, chuck Jones. There was my Uncle, ronnie Fletcher, and there was my ex-wife, april, and my daughter, jacey Jacey's mom. Obviously, all four people are close in my life.

Speaker 3 31:41

And the doctor walks in and he's like I have to have a serious conversation with you. This was before my surgery, so this was like two days after my life. And the doctor walks in and he's like I have to have a serious conversation with you. This was before my surgery, so this was like two days after my wreck. And he's like I have to have a serious conversation with you. Can these people hear it? And I'm like, yeah, these are my people, they can hear whatever you have to say. And so he starts talking about this and that and that, and finally you could tell he was getting to the gist of it. He's like well, you're heading to surgery and he's like I have to tell you something he's like. You had major trauma and damage to the ligament or to the arteries that went down your leg and you have all these arteries that are down there and we had to go in there and basically they soldered them off to keep me from bleeding to death.

Speaker 3 32:34

And he was like basically to make a long story short, there is a chance you'll never have an erection again. You could have heard a pin drop in that bitch, Because if anybody knows me, you might as well. And even my ex-wife told me this, because we're close a little bit and she comes over sometimes and picks up the grandkids or whatever. And we were talking one day and she was like, yeah, even I was like you better just put a bullet in that boy's head.

Speaker 2 32:58

Yeah, it's over. And I just sit there like this, like and I just sat there like this oh shit, Shit just got very real.

Speaker 3 33:05

And I didn't want to hear nothing else after that. I didn't want to talk, I just wanted to be left to hell alone.

Speaker 2 33:09

Yeah.

Speaker 3 33:10

I had faith and so it's funny because that was some heavy stuff on me man and obviously had the surgery, went home whatever, had the second surgery, whatever. And I just remember waking up one morning because I couldn't sleep in my bed. At the time I was sleeping in this chair where I had the button to lift you up. And I just remember laying there one morning after my second surgery and I wake up and I have an erection.

Speaker 2 33:41

I was about to say, and you woke up.

Speaker 3 33:43

I called my mom. I called woke up. I called my mom.

Speaker 2 33:46

I called the news.

Speaker 3 33:47

I called my mom. I swear, I called my mom. I did a live.

Speaker 2 33:51

I called my daughter. Yeah, my daughter.

Speaker 3 33:54

I called Chuck.

Speaker 2 33:55

Everything is up and fine.

Speaker 3 33:57

I didn't tell Uncle Ronnie because, to be honest with you, he was last on the list for whatever reason. Yeah, I told everybody that would listen. That was a good day for me.

Speaker 1 34:07

man, I knew Road to Recovery was going to be a little better at that point I knew, All of a sudden things were looking good.

Speaker 2 34:16

They were no pun intended.

Speaker 3 34:18

No pun intended no bullshit.

Speaker 2 34:20

There was definitely a pun intended. We're going to stand tall. We're going to stand proud. We're going to stand proud so that was when I knew I would be all right. Yeah, I'm like all right, everything's going to be all right, I know.

Speaker 3 34:30

I'm and it's crazy man, because in the first, when you do something and have an injury like I had, like in my mind it was like, okay, at this point I'm going to be healed and I'm going to walk. Well, I never thought about well, no, that's not how that works. No, no.

Speaker 3 34:48

You're going to be able to walk and then you're going to try to walk and then when you try to walk it's going to hurt and you're going to have to push through that, you know. And it wasn't like oh, I can walk now, I just walk normal. No, if you notice me, when I first started walking I was dragging this leg, you know, basically, and then it came to a point where I had a pimp limp, you know, just kind of, you know, I just thought maybe that's the way I was going to walk from now on.

Speaker 2 35:14

Yeah, from here on out.

Speaker 3 35:19

And then finally everything kind of started working back. You know where I walk pretty decent now, but it now. But it was that erection that made me feel better.

Speaker 2 35:24

I'm glad.

Speaker 3 35:28

It made me know everything was going to be okay.

Speaker 2 35:29

It usually makes a lot of people feel better.

Speaker 3 35:31

I'm not going to lie.

Speaker 2 35:34

I knew things were looking up, but we're all grateful for that day.

Speaker 3 35:39

Listen, we all need love. Yeah, we do, we do.

Speaker 2 35:50

Yeah, that would have been a different, definitely um a sad, a sad day, a time limit, a uh well, I can walk now but, I can't go on that date honey that we talked about.

Speaker 3 36:03

Oh my gosh, no, god's good man.

Speaker 2 36:07

Yeah.

Speaker 3 36:07

Everything's good, luckily, I would say. I'm completely back to where I was, as close as I can ask for. You know I'm happy with it, so you're two, three surgeries done. Four surgeries including the emergency surgery and so everything's still in place. I might have to have one more surgery to remove that screw.

Speaker 2 36:34

Protocol from here, because I don't want to pump it out of my butt cheek. I mean you'd holler at me if you knew. I mean I'm getting pretty good at this removal thing.

Speaker 3 36:40

It's stuck right where it's at now though. Yeah, that's what they always say.

Speaker 2 36:45

Yeah, exactly what is that? Yeah?

Speaker 3 36:49

You're bleeding. You're bleeding. Why is?

Speaker 2 36:51

my guitar.

Speaker 3 36:52

You have a Philips can sticking out of your mouth. Yeah, why is my?

Speaker 2 36:55

cable wrapped around my butt cheek. Well, you know.

Speaker 3 36:58

No, yeah, can't have that, I'm out.

Speaker 2 37:00

I'm out, I'm out. I'm not going to say it's not going to happen, because it happened to me and my knee and my ankle. But you got a lot of time. It took years before I'm going to have it removed.

Speaker 3 37:14

before then, no one will know.

Speaker 2 37:16

Yeah, you got a lot of life to live.

Speaker 3 37:21

You got a lot of things to accomplish. I'm counting on that with all the grandkids and whatnot.

Speaker 2 37:26

How many grandkids do you have now? That's a lot of things to accomplish.

Speaker 3 37:28

I'm counting on that, with all the grandkids and whatnot. How many grandkids do you have now? That's a lot of pressure.

Speaker 1 37:32

I got seven right now.

Speaker 3 37:33

I love that and I'm loving every minute of it. To be honest with you, it's the best thing ever.

Speaker 2 37:35

It is I have my one, and she is absolutely the highlight of my entire life. She is. My granddaughters have just a special little place for me. I have a granddaughter. We have no girls in our family. I don't know if it's like that with your grandsons.

Speaker 3 37:56

But my granddaughters, maybe my granddaughters. There's just something a little special there, man, but then again there was something special there with me and my daughters, With my daughters and my son's completely different, completely different. My daughter's in my car, honey, what do you need? Yeah, my son, I'm like get a job.

Speaker 2 38:10

Get the fuck off. Get, get, get a job.

Speaker 3 38:13

Take care of yourself, son.

Speaker 2 38:14

Right yeah, good luck, get your screw. Make sure your screws don't fall.

Speaker 3 38:18

Yeah, make sure you don't lose'm along the way. Yeah, I'm not supporting you all your life, son Honey, what do you need?

Speaker 2 38:24

Right, exactly.

Speaker 3 38:25

But you know what? That's the way it should be. You know he's a grown man. He needs to get out there and make his own money. My daughters are different. I got to protect them.

Speaker 2 38:36

I got to take care of them.

Speaker 3 38:37

Y'all can stay to your 90s, and even my grandsons. I'm the same way and I look at my granddaughters. I'm like, oh, sweetie Pawpaw's going to take you to go get an ice cream. My grandsons, can I go? No, go, mow the lawn.

Speaker 2 38:50

Yeah, you need to go earn an ice cream. You're four yeah.

Speaker 3 38:53

Pull the drawstring. Ice cream is not free.

Speaker 2 38:55

You're right, Boy. Oh and see, and I, I tell you what my little birdie is. She's got my life, she is. She's a good time.

Speaker 1 39:06

Love it.

Speaker 3 39:09

So, from here, from here, and the road to recovery.

Speaker 2 39:13

We're on tour in 2025.

Speaker 3 39:20

I'm headed to Florida this week, this weekend, tomorrow actually Headed to Pensacola. I love Pensacola and I think on the road to recoveryvier. I'm pretty close man to being just recovered. Yeah, I think I got to go back and get x-rayed one more time to see where things at and then, I guess, decide if I'm going to have that screw pulled out or not. But I'll just make that decision at that time. See how I feel as long as I got marijuana, I think I'll just make that decision at that time see how.

Speaker 3 39:47

I feel, as long as I got marijuana.

Speaker 2 39:49

I think I'll be good. Amen, yeah, it's an expensive surgery. Man Weed's so much cheaper.

Speaker 3 39:53

It is.

Speaker 2 39:56

That's when you grow that shit in your backyard, whatever, yeah Well. I'm so grateful that you're cruising along and doing what you're doing.

Speaker 3 40:08

Between Heaven and Hell tour has been the biggest tour of my career and the way it started in my first arena show and the show with Frank Foster and it's just been really big so far.

Speaker 2 40:21

So I'm excited I think it's just going to get bigger and bigger this year. You come, get on that stage in the beginning of a show and do you meet up with your band members and you guys. Do you all all sit down, do you bow your heads, do you thank thank god that you're there and are able to perform that show and then, by the time you're done, because of your accident and your injuries, are you having to push through there. How is your stamina coming through a show, are you?

Speaker 3 40:50

We have our rituals, that we do, that we've had for a while.

Speaker 2 40:53

Yeah.

Speaker 3 40:54

My stamina was fine. Do you get out of that?

Speaker 2 40:56

show, is there some nights where you just are like man, I didn't feel a cramp, I didn't feel nothing, everything was golden. And is there that one show where you're?

Speaker 3 41:04

like holy shit Ever since that show that you came to and said Marcus Ross stood up for the first time. Right, I haven't had any kind of.

Speaker 2 41:11

I was stroking the fuck out, I was literally from here. I got to thump your balls from where I was sitting, Like this motherfucker here is going to do exactly what he's not supposed to be doing, but you did it anyways I was standing up because in front of my family myself I'd be doing the same shit, if I was him and I did and I got yelled at it made sense, though it was my family and I was going to stand up anyway, the next couple days, you know and you did

Speaker 3 41:39

so it made sense. But no, I mean, I feel good. I feel like now just it's all downhill for me now. Just stay out of the ditch. At this point that's the only thing I can do. I feel like I've just been given a second lease on life and I feel like I'm going to make a full recovery. You know which? I was already having back problems before. Yeah, it was kind of an extravagant way to get them fixed.

Speaker 2 42:11

Yeah, that was, you're being a little extra I'm not going to lie. Well, I think I have those moments where I'm doing things and I never sit still. I'm horrible at sitting still, but where I think shit.

Speaker 3 42:28

Best for you.

Speaker 2 42:29

Yeah, the boy my knee is jacked today, my hip is not having it today.

Speaker 3 42:34

I have the knee problems and I just. You know they come and go and you just deal with them. Yeah.

Speaker 2 42:41

But I think, after being through what we've been through, it's hard to complain.

Speaker 3 42:46

It is. Sometimes it's like thank you, lord, for making my lower back hurt so I don't notice my neck anymore. Where's those neck problems I had before? They're gone Not wild. No, I feel pretty good for being 50 years old and everything I put myself through the wreck. Likewise, and then just this new year. I feel really really good. I'm glad, and I hope you do too.

Speaker 2 43:16

I do.

Speaker 3 43:17

It's going to be a big year for us. It is going to be a very big year 2025.

Speaker 2 43:22

So everybody can find the tour dates on your website Creedfishercom. We'll have a link on there and then we're going to finish it up and keep following you on your road to recovery.

Speaker 3 43:38

And I'm playing local in April. Don't hold me to it, I think it's in April. I'm playing Buda, buda or Buda.

Speaker 2 43:46

Buda, don't hold me to it. I think it's in April. I'm playing Buda Buda or Buda Buda, don't hold me to that name. Buda is what we wrote their bellies for Box backyard. That's a good venue. In April That'll be a good time it would be, you're invited. Hopefully it'll be first early in. April yeah, yeah, we would love to be there.

Speaker 3 44:05

Yeah, I'll have you guys be our peace.

Speaker 2 44:07

Nice Well, thank you.

Speaker 3 44:09

Thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 44:10

Yes, we will see you guys soon Y'all. Creed Fisher Road to Recovery Frameland. Gypsy Podcast. Like, share, follow. This is our guy. Love you guys.

Speaker 1 44:26

We'll catch you on the flip side. Peace out, we're not flipping.