There’s no denying that Dean Ambrose’s WWE return back on the August 13th edition of Monday Night RAW was a long awaited and welcome one for many members of the WWE Universe.

Of course, Ambrose had been on the shelf with a torn triceps since December 2017 and there was talk his absence was prolonged due to complications from surgery (read about that here). Recently, ‘The Lunatic Fringe’ spoke with The Monitor ahead of tonight’s RAW Live Event in Edinburg, Texas and confirmed the previous rumors of him suffering a setback:

“It was just one nightmare after another. It was a pretty challenging period of time to go through. I ended up having two different surgeries. I had this MRSA, Staph infection. I nearly died. I was in the hospital for a week plugged up to this antibiotic drip thing, and I was on all these antibiotics for months that make you puke and crap your pants.”

Ambrose would go into further detail, discussing how it has also felt to finally be back:

“So it was a pretty rough time. My arm wasn’t healing correctly, and my triceps. It’s kind of an indeterminate period where I initially hurt it. I thought it was, we call it Dusty elbows. It’s a pretty typical wrestler thing. You just get this bursa sac of fluid on your elbow from banging it on the mat or whatever. I’ve had that dozens of times on both elbows. It usually just goes away. It was kind of disguised. By the time I finally went and got the first surgery, my triceps was already starting to atrophy and look weird. I wasn’t able to flex my triceps for a really long time. And then the first surgery didn’t really, something went wrong in the process. Probably due to that infection. It’s kind of hard to say when that really even got in my body. This is a long answer to your question. But for a minute there, it was getting scary. By the time I got that second surgery, it was March, I think. My arm was so shrunken and skeletal that it was weird. I hadn’t been able to move it or flex it in so long that I was starting to get scared I wasn’t ever going to get it back. To go from not being able to eat my Froot Loops, to being able to get back in the ring and throw people around and throw punches and do everything back to normal, it was a very gratifying feeling.”

Quotes c/o The Monitor

You can check out the full, in-depth interview with Dean Ambrose at this link.

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