サッシャ・ディギーリアンさんのインスタグラム写真 - (サッシャ・ディギーリアンInstagram)「I haven’t shared this from last week yet because I needed to handle it mentally myself, first. Sometimes everything looks different on social than what reality may be. I try to keep it real but this injury hit me super hard. I have been pretty down the last days as it feels like a dark comedy to injure myself right after coming through the end of a totally separate injury. I was up on the climb that Lynn and I have been working. We have been developing this line on and off for the past year and after a lot of work, and healing my finger while bolting, we were up on the wall almost sending. After freeing the first and second pitch, I was at the top of our final pitch. I had a heel hook for the final move, and my knee let out an audible pop. All of a sudden my leg buckled beneath me and I was in a slow motion fall off the top in agony. I knew it was bad. I was throbbing. After a series of jerry rigging myself out of hanging in the air to get back up to the bolt and top out so I could rappel, between using my sling as a prosec ascender and my chalk bag as a foot strap - and having to hike out a couple miles in the cold rain (in part fireman carried by my fiancé) - I went to my orthopedic surgeon’s house soaking and throbbing in my knee - and he gave me, what would then be confirmed by MRI, the diagnosis that I had torn my LCL. Thankfully it is grade 2, so no surgery. But I would be lying if I said I was not borderline depressed and doing all I can to get out of the funk. If I have learned anything from all my injuries over the past year, I know it will be a blip in time in retrospect and I will be back, with a new hunger of motivation. But there’s no way around saying that it just totally sucks right now. I went to San Diego with some friends this weekend and appreciated an ocean breeze and then had the privilege to stop in and spend the day with @redbull APC for some PT, mental performance, strength building and cross training. I’m beyond grateful for the resources here. My mindset feels in a lot better space. While gutted, I’m going to focus on what is in my control now and move forward with focus and optimism because that’s the only way.」5月24日 0時48分