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interviewed you at Knockouts this summer. You said that the old Devon was back now that you took care of some personal issues that you were dealing with. Can you elaborate at all on what those issues were?
DA: Well, when you're guy came down to Knockouts, you know, that's when I was really going through the transition from what I was going through. (Long sigh) When he came, I was going through rehab. Three years ago, I had sinus surgery. Mind you, I never had surgery a day in my life. I was always scared to have surgery. When I fought Maidana, my sinuses were so bad, I couldn't breath. My nose was kind of swole. We didn't know what the extent was. I thought it was broke, actually, before the Maidana fight, but, you know, we was already in camp. I was using a nose saline spray, or whatever, to clear my nose up because it would get stopped up every other hour. The Maidana fight came, we got through it, we toughed it out, and then after that win, that was a big win for me, I said, "Man, I gotta go to the doctor. Something is not right with my nose. It's bigger than usual." On the left side, it was kind of swole, so you could tell it was something wrong.
Something was wrong, so I went to a nose, throat and ear specialist. We went there knowing that they were going to say my nose was broke because how it happened was I got elbowed. When I was sparring, getting ready for the Maidana fight, I got elbowed and after that, we were seeing some significant swelling. Knowing me, I'm a fighter, so I don't care. Okay, he hit my nose, but I'm knowing something done happened to my damn nose where it's looking funny because it's bigger than usual, and every few hours, I gotta put some nose spray in to just clear the breathing up. But after the fight, it wasn't broke. What had happened was it was a blood clot that got in my nose from that elbow. I got elbowed and it was a blood clot. I didn't know. Even the doctor that did the surgery thought it was a broken nose, but when he went in there to surgery, it was a blood clot. I was like, "Wow! Really? It was just a blood clot?" He was like, "Yeah, it was just a blood clot. Your nose wasn't broken." So we had the surgery after the Maidana fight and, you know, mind you, I did not take anything before this. I'm a clean individual. I don't smoke, drink; I don't do anything. I just didn't like nothing in my body like that. No medicine, no nothing. I never been through nothing like this [surgery]. I mean, it's just; all around, a new experience for me all around the board.
Before then, you know, they call you, they say, "Okay, we're going to call in a prescription for you. This type of medicine, antibiotics, this type of pain medicine, and this and that." So I said, "Okay!" So we had the surgery, it went well, and after, I went home. They had some stuff in my nose to heal it back from the stitches or whatever they had up in my nose. The pain medicine, you know, I had been taking that. It makes you feel good. It's a feeling that I can't explain. At the time, I never felt no pain medicine; never took it. That euphoric feeling. You can definitely tell that it transforms you and relaxes you. It somehow makes you in a cloud. I don't know how to explain it, but it makes you feel like nothing's there. I mean, you're just chilling and relaxing. It just makes you feel just...I don't know. At the time, I guess I can say I liked the feeling that it gave me. I knew from that point on that this is something that...I thought to myself, I said, "I don't want to get addicted to this stuff. Do not do it." But I kept taking it and I kept taking it and I kept taking it. And then after my last 'script was up, I ordered it in. I started taking that and I really didn't even need it really after that. I just took it just to be taking it because of the feeling. The pain was gone, but I just kept taking it. I just needed something. In my opinion, in my strong opinion, that doctor shouldn't have given me nothing that strong, especially me being the clean guy that I was. The clean person that I am, drug free, don't like drugs, and they actually gave it to me. I took it and I fell victim to it. No excuse, but after that, I got to telling the doctor I needed more and I'm still in pain, you know, when I wasn't. Just making excuses to get this same level of feeling that I liked. I didn't want it to go away, or whatever, and I wanted to keep feeling like this.
And then my tonsils went bad. I think it was the following year or the year after. I'll say 2 years ago...maybe 2 1/2...I had a tonsillectomy and they took my tonsils out and they prescribed me some more pain medicine. I knew that this was becoming a problem. I'm taking it too much. I'm liking it too much. I'm just blown away by it. I'm blown away and this is becoming a problem. Mind you, I have never taken a drug a day in my life, so it altered my thinking. It really did. It altered my thinking. I wasn't thinking clearly. Alls I wanted was, okay, I'm gonna take another one. I'm gonna stop. I'm not going to take it no more. After this one, I'm going to take another one. Then I take another one. Okay, this is not going to hurt, so I'm gonna take another one. Listen, it just kept going on and on and on, and then saying after, I'm not going to take it no more. So, you know, months and months, the doctors, they just kept prescribing it. If I say, "Okay, I needed more," they kept prescribing it and kept prescribing it. It just became an addiction, you know. It just became that it took over my life. It took over everything. It made me lazy. It made me not want to train; make excuses not to go to the gym. I mean, it just became part of my downfall for that
DA: Well, when you're guy came down to Knockouts, you know, that's when I was really going through the transition from what I was going through. (Long sigh) When he came, I was going through rehab. Three years ago, I had sinus surgery. Mind you, I never had surgery a day in my life. I was always scared to have surgery. When I fought Maidana, my sinuses were so bad, I couldn't breath. My nose was kind of swole. We didn't know what the extent was. I thought it was broke, actually, before the Maidana fight, but, you know, we was already in camp. I was using a nose saline spray, or whatever, to clear my nose up because it would get stopped up every other hour. The Maidana fight came, we got through it, we toughed it out, and then after that win, that was a big win for me, I said, "Man, I gotta go to the doctor. Something is not right with my nose. It's bigger than usual." On the left side, it was kind of swole, so you could tell it was something wrong.
Something was wrong, so I went to a nose, throat and ear specialist. We went there knowing that they were going to say my nose was broke because how it happened was I got elbowed. When I was sparring, getting ready for the Maidana fight, I got elbowed and after that, we were seeing some significant swelling. Knowing me, I'm a fighter, so I don't care. Okay, he hit my nose, but I'm knowing something done happened to my damn nose where it's looking funny because it's bigger than usual, and every few hours, I gotta put some nose spray in to just clear the breathing up. But after the fight, it wasn't broke. What had happened was it was a blood clot that got in my nose from that elbow. I got elbowed and it was a blood clot. I didn't know. Even the doctor that did the surgery thought it was a broken nose, but when he went in there to surgery, it was a blood clot. I was like, "Wow! Really? It was just a blood clot?" He was like, "Yeah, it was just a blood clot. Your nose wasn't broken." So we had the surgery after the Maidana fight and, you know, mind you, I did not take anything before this. I'm a clean individual. I don't smoke, drink; I don't do anything. I just didn't like nothing in my body like that. No medicine, no nothing. I never been through nothing like this [surgery]. I mean, it's just; all around, a new experience for me all around the board.
Before then, you know, they call you, they say, "Okay, we're going to call in a prescription for you. This type of medicine, antibiotics, this type of pain medicine, and this and that." So I said, "Okay!" So we had the surgery, it went well, and after, I went home. They had some stuff in my nose to heal it back from the stitches or whatever they had up in my nose. The pain medicine, you know, I had been taking that. It makes you feel good. It's a feeling that I can't explain. At the time, I never felt no pain medicine; never took it. That euphoric feeling. You can definitely tell that it transforms you and relaxes you. It somehow makes you in a cloud. I don't know how to explain it, but it makes you feel like nothing's there. I mean, you're just chilling and relaxing. It just makes you feel just...I don't know. At the time, I guess I can say I liked the feeling that it gave me. I knew from that point on that this is something that...I thought to myself, I said, "I don't want to get addicted to this stuff. Do not do it." But I kept taking it and I kept taking it and I kept taking it. And then after my last 'script was up, I ordered it in. I started taking that and I really didn't even need it really after that. I just took it just to be taking it because of the feeling. The pain was gone, but I just kept taking it. I just needed something. In my opinion, in my strong opinion, that doctor shouldn't have given me nothing that strong, especially me being the clean guy that I was. The clean person that I am, drug free, don't like drugs, and they actually gave it to me. I took it and I fell victim to it. No excuse, but after that, I got to telling the doctor I needed more and I'm still in pain, you know, when I wasn't. Just making excuses to get this same level of feeling that I liked. I didn't want it to go away, or whatever, and I wanted to keep feeling like this.
And then my tonsils went bad. I think it was the following year or the year after. I'll say 2 years ago...maybe 2 1/2...I had a tonsillectomy and they took my tonsils out and they prescribed me some more pain medicine. I knew that this was becoming a problem. I'm taking it too much. I'm liking it too much. I'm just blown away by it. I'm blown away and this is becoming a problem. Mind you, I have never taken a drug a day in my life, so it altered my thinking. It really did. It altered my thinking. I wasn't thinking clearly. Alls I wanted was, okay, I'm gonna take another one. I'm gonna stop. I'm not going to take it no more. After this one, I'm going to take another one. Then I take another one. Okay, this is not going to hurt, so I'm gonna take another one. Listen, it just kept going on and on and on, and then saying after, I'm not going to take it no more. So, you know, months and months, the doctors, they just kept prescribing it. If I say, "Okay, I needed more," they kept prescribing it and kept prescribing it. It just became an addiction, you know. It just became that it took over my life. It took over everything. It made me lazy. It made me not want to train; make excuses not to go to the gym. I mean, it just became part of my downfall for that
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