Just a little speed bump on the road to success

For those who don't know yet Derek had knee surgery a few weeks back. Derek was out training in Illinois with Matt Hughes and his team at the beginning of the month and while he was there he tore the meniscus in his left knee. I felt so bad for him because he was supposed to stay for a week and the trip got cut short because of his injury. He called me on Tuesday night and told me what had happened and said that he would be flying home the next morning first thing. So he hopped on a plane Wednesday morning and we got him strait in to see Dr. Kimball. Dr Kimball did the surgery the following morning thanks to Dereks mom and all her conections. Going into the surgery we were not sure how serious the surgery was and Dr. Kimall told us that most of the time these were just "white zone" tears and he would be walking out of the surgery and training within about a week. Instead we found out that it was a "red zone tear." Which has a much longer recovery. So Derek will be on crutches for 4 weeks and then have a few months of physical therapy. So he has been a little down in the dumps. But he is excited to get back training as soon as possible and his next fight is scheduled in September.