A Real Sport
Oh you did the Iditarod, eh? Me too, with a sawed-off finger.
While in Rohn, one of the race veterinarians looked at it, and was a little taken aback by what he saw. "I had some nerves sticking out, drying out, and getting in my way," Buser recalled. He asked the vet to cut the nerves away. The veterinarian reluctantly agreed and made the snips. Cutting a nerve, even a dried out nerve sticking from the stump of a finger, can be a very painful experience. "He just looked at me and said, 'You're one tough S.O.B,'" Buser said.
posted by Anonymous at 11:01 PM
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"The Vet went on to say that Buser was obviously ten times the man he was, and Buser modestly disagreed."
Although I respect the man's toughness, it seems much like Buser to be telling this story like this himself.
If memory serves, when fellow Stellerite David Wolfe ran the Iditarod, he was diabetic, and had to jam in insulin needles at 20 below and wait for them to thaw before he could inject himself. He did this repeatedly.
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