Posted on 10/13/2017 12:11:17 PM PDT by bgill
Former child star Frankie Muniz said he doesn’t remember acting in the hit sitcom “Malcolm in the Middle” because of damage to his brain caused by a series of strokes and concussions. “I’ve gotten to really do anything I wanted to do, but the truth is I don’t really remember much of that,” Muniz said in an interview that aired on “Dancing with the Stars” Monday night. “I think it almost feels like it wasn’t me. There’s no negative feelings, I just don’t remember.” Muniz, 31, told viewers he’s suffered nine concussions and several mini-strokes that have made him forget much of his formative years. “It makes me a little sad,” he said. “Things pop back into my mind I should have remembered.” After starring in the sitcom, Muniz went on to pursue a career as a musician and race car driver. The brain damage happened before he took up racing, he said.
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I forgot to mention the mechanics of my downfall in bicycle racing.
In the Junior Road Race in the Nationals in 1978 I was having a bad day. I was on an extremely low budget and was staying in a pup tent outside of Milwaukee and riding my bicycle to most of the races in “Super Week” the week before the Nationals. It was almost a tropical like climate that year and it seemed like it rained hard every other day, and I didn't have a rain fly on my little tent. So it seemed like everything I had became either moldy or rusty. Plus there were these little mosquitos that would crawl through the netting and bite you while you were sleeping. I ended up with a bad case of impetigo on my groin which made riding uncomfortable.
So on the big day I ended up feeling kind of crappy and hanging out in the pack for most of the race. There was a break away group of eight riders with LeMonde and some of the other favorites ahead of the main group. I was disgusted with myself for missing the break. I was berating myself asking what I was even there for? So on the last lap I decided to attack at the bottom of the “big” hill and put some space between me and the other riders. I made my way to the front of the pack and when I shifted down and stood on it... my chain came off and got stuck between my frame and the inner chain ring.
When I got it back on the bike I was angry and bursting with adrenaline and I quickly caught back up and made my way through the other riders making it back to the front at the top of the hill. From there I just kept going. One rider caught my wheel. When I looked back at him he indicated that he couldn't take a pull. So I just spun my pedals as fast as I could down the descent. We didn't have electronic speedometers back then but were going very fast and the other rider lost my wheel when we reached the level portion along the shores of Lake Michigan.
I did not know how far it was up to the lead group, but after a couple of miles when the course started to straighten out I caught a glimpse of them. I got into a tight tuck and pedaled furiously. As I got closer I could see that they were jockeying for position and it seemed that they were going much slower than I was. I missed catching the group by a hundred yards at the finish. So I ended up getting ninth in the road race at the Nationals that year.
The next year I received offers from other teams after the first of the year with travel opportunities, but I had stupidly not resigned from my current team and they would not release me. So I had to ride unattached for the first six months of the year.
In the first training race of the year, I wasn't paying attention and caught someones wheel ahead of me and fell down and half the team I was planning to get on rode over the top of me and crashed too. So everyone was mad at me... my old teammates and my prospective new teammates. I got banged up pretty bad and disillusioned. The weather was pretty good that Spring so I started chasing girls and water skiing with my friends instead of training hard.
My first stage race of the year was up in Penticton BC I had to pay double entry fees to enter since I was still unattached. It came to like $100 which was a lot of money to me back then. I didn't have my previous fitness level; people were still irritated with me from the crash and switching teams. I had been at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs and had seen what a joke the USCF coaching staff was like at a national level. I can't even go into it all. But the magic and the illusion was gone for me.
I ended up going to college for nine months, but when my family fell onto hard times I went to work in our lumber mill. (thanks eco-nazis and spotted owl)
Just noticed your tagline. Trower fan?
Very much so.
:)
Good to see you again.
Disclaimer:
Loved the James Dewar era, most.
Dewar had one of the best voices in R & R.
I agree with you about the Dewar era, but I came to enjoy every era of Trower’s career, over time.
I saw Robin play live for the first time a couple years back in Dallas. He’s still got it.
After the show, I managed to get him to autograph the cover of my original copy of Bridge of Sighs. I even got to shake his left hand, which was very meaningful to me.
Wow.
What an amazing experience.
As an old guitar slinger, it was a dream come true. Robin has always been one of my heroes.
Do you believe that people that play soccer get as many concussions as those that play football?
I definitely believe that there’s a cumulative effect of multiple concussions.
He is underrated, IMO.
Love all his stuff.
Yikes. If I were him I'd wear a helmet on the dance floor.
...and using the john, in the kitchen, going to bed, walking pretty much anywhere. Poor bastard.
Probably the most underrated big name rock guitarist of the late 20th century. Few of his ilk ever came close to his level of virtuosity and emotional tone.
Every Trower fan must hear this instrumental from 2015:
He has a fake member implanted that he deploys with a button that he uses to “pleasure” his wife and other women. Honestly, I can’t imagine either party enjoying themselves in that situation.
Oh excuse me, I thought your post I replied to was about Larry Flynt. ;-D
I know a guy that got hit by a car in his 20s while crossing the street. He was unconscious for a week. He lost the memory of a week before the accident as well as several huge chunks from his childhood, like year long segments. It took him a long time to even realize he was missing big parts of his memory, as his siblings referenced things he didn’t understand. The brain is a strange organ.
Freegards
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was thinking “Frankie Moniz is literally falling apart. WTH?”
btt
I knew a kid who was constantly getting concussions. Thing was, he was doing stupid stuff. Don’t know which came first, the concussion or the wild behavior. A bike accident nearly scalped him. Last time I saw him, he was hanging off a balcony rail laughing that his next concussion could kill him.
I do not personally remember the exact circumstances of most of my concussions. I am fairly missing large swaths of time around most, although I have vivid memories of certain events that were not close to any of them. One time when I was a kid we were watching a fight on TV. One of the fighters got knocked out. I said that I wondered what that felt like and everyone started laughing at me.
Most of my “accidents” were not necessarily caused by stupidity or recklessness that I know of. But they were related to somewhat risky past times like riding a bicycle long distances through all types of weather conditions when I was a teen and young adult and spending a lot of time riding horses bareback when I was a child. It also didn’t help that I have a large head which seemed to get banged into a lot. Maybe I was top heavy? I have a grandson with the same problem. His pediatrician joked that he was in the 99th percentile as far as head size goes.
I can remember being taken aside by my teachers in elementary school on more than one occasion because they thought that I was being abused by my parents because of all of the injuries. I think that people who get hurt a lot as children do not fear injury nearly as much as those who are more sheltered. Kids today are way too sheltered in my opinion, although I believe that helmets are a very good idea for them.
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