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Ches Neckbeard posted:His aorta is 1/2cm from being eligible for surgery. His aorta is currently ineligible for surgery is what I'm seeing here.
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SKULL.GIF posted:Yes, I read the tweet. Is the eligibility criteria an insurance thing ("it's not bad enough yet so we won't pay for the operation") or a medical one? I'm sure there's some degree of risk to the surgery, and he doesn't think it's worth it to doctor shop for a medically unnecessary surgery to keep playing. Financially he just signed what was likely his last NFL contract as a 28 year old serviceable starter, and I'm pretty sure he gets to keep everything except the roster/workout bonuses. A pretty solid chunk of his money was guaranteed, and I don't think teams make it a habit of trying to get back signing bonuses in scenarios like these- it probably counts as retiring due to injury as he can't pass a physical and it's only hypothetical he would be able to in the future. He might be able to keep all but like $1m of an $18m contract.
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He's in the exact situation I was in. I found out my aorta was enlarged when it was at 4.9 cm. I wonder if he's got a valve problem, too. I had a unicuspid valve, which means they consider surgery a little earlier, so when I got to 5.0 they started talking about it—but they only pulled the trigger when it got to 5.4 cm. The difficult conversation I had with my surgeon when I got to 5.0 cm and wanted to just have the drat surgery and get it over with was "we have to consider the risk of surgery versus the risk of rupture." There's also the very real fact that you basically want to put off open heart surgery for as long as possible, because the moment you get opened up like that, you're talking about lowered life expectancy, scar tissue, etc. And if he needs a replacement valve, it starts a countdown until the next time he needs open heart surgery (either 10-ish years or 25-30-ish years, depending on the type of valve), and repeated open heart surgeries do really bad things to life expectancy over time. 0.5 cm doesn't sound like much of anything, but in terms of aortas, it's a lot. He could be waiting years before his aorta expands to 5.5 cm. In the meantime, if he's playing football, he's walking around with a time bomb in his chest. Rupture anywhere outside of a hospital is basically a very quick and painful death sentence. Edit: Also, even if he had the surgery tomorrow, I'd be surprised if the doctors don't tell him his career's over. Aortic aneurysms are typically the result of connective tissue weakness, which means he's susceptible to further problems, especially if he's engaging in contact sports or jacking his blood pressure with heavy lifting. To give you an example, I'm no longer allowed to ride on roller coasters or bumper cars, I'm not allowed to lift more than either 50 pounds or 100 pounds (my cardiologist and surgeon disagree on the number), and I'm on blood thinners so if I take any solid knocks to the head I need to go to the emergency room right away for an MRI. It's not conducive to an NFL career. Toaster Beef fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Aug 17, 2020 |
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Toss in the very real problem of major surgery in the time of covid they may be extra cautious.
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welp now I’m terrified I have a giant aorta
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indigi posted:welp now I’m terrified I have a giant aorta unless you're blacking out regularly you're probably fine
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SKULL.GIF posted:unless you're blacking out regularly you're probably fine I do but that's probably the gin
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Toaster Beef posted:He's in the exact situation I was in. I found out my aorta was enlarged when it was at 4.9 cm. I wonder if he's got a valve problem, too. I had a unicuspid valve, which means they consider surgery a little earlier, so when I got to 5.0 they started talking about it—but they only pulled the trigger when it got to 5.4 cm. Sorry you have to go thorough this, but thanks for sharing. Never had any idea what exactly an enlarged aorta entails.
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indigi posted:welp now I’m terrified I have a giant aorta Same. I'm clutching my chest and thinking the big one is coming
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They're not super common (just 5-10 per 100,000, according to some quick Googling), so if you don't have any established issues with connective tissue fuckery, don't worry too much about it. Can rule it out with a simple CT scan, if it comes to that. (One of my favorite little jokes to recite whenever I talk about my experience with this: "Well Mr. Press, a major spike in your blood pressure could cause your heart to literally explode. You'd be dead in seconds. But stress is really bad for the heart too, so, like, try not to think about it.") Mine came about because I had a unicuspid aortic valve, which is itself a pretty drat rare thing. It began to calcify and get stenotic, which meant my heart needed to pump harder, which forced blood through my aorta harder, which expanded the aorta. We found the valve after I went to a doctor for (it turns out totally unrelated) chest pains and he discovered a murmur. Cardiologist said, "Eh, we'll check your aorta too, just in case," and whomp: 4.9 cm. Saved my life, because I'd been doing a lot of lifting up to that point. Good chance I'd have died in a loving West Windsor Retro Fitness. When it crossed over into 5.0 cm about a year and a half later I was all about getting the surgery over with, but the surgeon said, "Operating on this now would not be wrong, but it would be very aggressive." Six months later it was at 5.4 cm, which was an alarming rate of growth and meant I went into surgery a few weeks later. Great news for Gunter is he's young, healthy, and found this before it could kill him. His career is probably over, though, which absolutely sucks. It's such weird and difficult news to process, because you go from feeling completely healthy to feeling completely healthy but with a secret bomb in your chest and all these new restrictions. I hope he's got folks to help him deal with that. Toaster Beef fucked around with this message at 11:55 on Aug 17, 2020 |
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Ex-NFL RB turned McKinsey guy. https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1295324538331369474
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And University of Chicago! And you thought Snyder believed in austerity!
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Diva Cupcake posted:Ex-NFL RB turned McKinsey guy. As much as I generally detest McKinsey, their type seem probably well suited to running a football franchise
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The guy set an all time Motor City Bowl rushing record in a loss to a MAC team
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mcmagic posted:Celebrating a POS like Snyder for hiring 1 black dude is some lib poo poo. Bomani is fighting the good fight right now. https://twitter.com/bomani_jones/status/1295356437582041088
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What about celebrating a guy for beating the university of illinois in 2003 where the offense did not attempt a single pass in the second half.
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R.D. Mangles posted:What about celebrating a guy for beating the university of illinois in 2003 where the offense did not attempt a single pass in the second half. Praise be unto The Run
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R.D. Mangles posted:What about celebrating a guy for beating the university of illinois in 2003 where the offense did not attempt a single pass in the second half. Yea but he didn’t win a hat.
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MNF should get rid of a color commentator entirely and devote the budget to more of those awesome PS1 graphics. Use those every drive.
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AndrewP posted:I hate training camp With a short training camp and no preseason players are going to be dropping like flies in the first couple weeks of the season.
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gently caress https://twitter.com/MySportsUpdate/status/1295397063715360769?s=20 Edit: Another shocker: https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1295393118859165699?s=200 Catanzaro sucks tho. wandler20 fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Aug 17, 2020 |
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Man, Gerald McCoy was such a monster for years and now he's old and busted at 8 years younger then me.
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