Peyton McNabb is a former volleyball player who was seriously injured at the age of 17 when her team confronted a transgender player on the other side of the court.
“I'm not tall enough to block, so I never block. I always just tip, and it works for every other team except this one,” McNabb says. allie beth stuckey “I can empathize with it.” “I was walking back there and got hit right in the face. I think it was about 110 miles an hour.”
“I passed out. He spiked the ball,” she said, adding: “I love sports and it has brought so much to my life. But unfortunately, that day, everything was taken away from me because of one boy. , it was completely avoidable, but that's why it's so frustrating to me.”
Women who play sports are often told that injuries are inevitable no matter who is on the opposing team, but McNab completely disagrees.
“You're going to get injured, that's natural, but unless you're playing against guys, it's not that bad,” she says.
McNab remembers losing consciousness for 30 seconds and when he regained consciousness he heard screams behind him and the rest of the gym went silent.
“I woke up and the other team's trainer asked me if I knew what had just happened to me. And I thought, 'Yes, that kid hit me in the face.' explains McNab. “We weren't allowed to talk about it, so he didn't know what to say and was like, kick me off the court.”
When it became clear that McNabb was suffering from a brain bleed, doctors immediately referred him to a neurologist.
“I was going completely crazy, doing the same thing over and over again, sleeping all the time, had no balance at all, falling all over the place, and my memory wasn't very good. It was really hard. “It was a tough time,” she said, adding that her official diagnosis was a brain hemorrhage, concussion and permanent whiplash.
“I'm lucky my neck didn't actually break or my spinal cord broke,” Stuckey says, shaken.
“That's what the doctor said, but he was really confused as to how I could have gotten such a bad injury in a high school volleyball game,” she added. Man. ”
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