Yo, this is what dedication looks like right here. Matt Dawson of the Australian field hockey team broke the ring finger on his right hand a few weeks ago, and instead of having surgery to repair it, which would've required months of recovery, he's decided to amputate it from the knuckle up.
Bro is gonna leave it all on the field — and by that I mean the top half of his finger.
Dawson has told media the break was so bad that he passed out when he saw his finger in the changing room. He thought his Olympic dream was over.
He urgently consulted a plastic surgeon who said that even with surgery to repair the finger - and the long recovery time - it may not regain full function. But if it was amputated, he could be back playing in 10 days.
Despite being warned by his wife not to do anything ‘rash', Dawson says he made his ‘informed' decision that same afternoon.
The break came during practice two weeks ago when Dawson was struck by a hockey stick.
But he'll be on the field Sunday — just 16 days after he broke his finger — to face off against Argentina.
Look at it:
Speaking on the Parlez Vous Hockey podcast, Dawson said,
I'm definitely closer to the end of my career than the start and, who knows, this could be my last [Olympics], and if I felt that I could still perform at my best then that's what I was going to do … If taking the top of my finger was the price I had to pay, that's what I would do.
Boy, it's gonna be hard not to root for the Aussies after coming across this story.
