Where’s the Bru? UPDATE
As I mentioned briefly yesterday in this space, New England Patriots Pro-Bowl linebacker Tedy Bruschi was hospitalized on Wednesday after experienced blurred vision, headaches and some numbness, symptoms indicative of a “minor hemorrhagic stroke”, after a.
Today Bru was released from Mass General under his own power after a battery of tests and analyses were performed over the past two days.
Reports are dodgy on the severity of the injury. The Boston Globe reported within a day of being rushed by ambulance to the hospital after a 911 call from his wife Heidi, Bru was walking and talking, and experiencing few aftereffects of the blood vessel in his head that burst. ESPN quotes Dr. David Liebeskind, associate neurology director of the UCLA Stroke Center in Los Angeles as saying that a return to football cannot be ruled out. According to Liebeskind: "Based on the fact that he's walking and talking, in a 31-year-old, it sounds like he could be able to play. A lot of people who have strokes while young tend to have no effects later. ... But things could change quickly. If he happens to have some numbness that persists, that may affect his playing."
Meanwhile, Pats fans from Foxboro to Fort Myers (Schill, I thought you were a Steelers fan!) have expressed their thoughts and prayers for the leader of the Patriots’ defense and one of the most popular and widely respected Patriots ever.
For what it’s worth, I would be very surprised to see Bru hang ‘em up without a fight, stroke or no. Bruschi has been the ultimate gamer on a team of gamers for nine years, recently signed a four year contract for under market value to remain with the champs and played in his first Pro Bowl on Sunday (and that’s not even mentioning the Got Milk ads and the onslaught of future endorsements that are sure to come after that clip of Tedy and his kids playing on the field before the Super Bowl). My guess is that, barring a decisive “no-go” from the doctors, a healthy Bruschi will be in training camp this summer and will line up for the defending champs when they line up for the season opener on Thursday September 8th. Against the Colts.
Cut that meat, beeyotch.
Today Bru was released from Mass General under his own power after a battery of tests and analyses were performed over the past two days.
Reports are dodgy on the severity of the injury. The Boston Globe reported within a day of being rushed by ambulance to the hospital after a 911 call from his wife Heidi, Bru was walking and talking, and experiencing few aftereffects of the blood vessel in his head that burst. ESPN quotes Dr. David Liebeskind, associate neurology director of the UCLA Stroke Center in Los Angeles as saying that a return to football cannot be ruled out. According to Liebeskind: "Based on the fact that he's walking and talking, in a 31-year-old, it sounds like he could be able to play. A lot of people who have strokes while young tend to have no effects later. ... But things could change quickly. If he happens to have some numbness that persists, that may affect his playing."
Meanwhile, Pats fans from Foxboro to Fort Myers (Schill, I thought you were a Steelers fan!) have expressed their thoughts and prayers for the leader of the Patriots’ defense and one of the most popular and widely respected Patriots ever.
For what it’s worth, I would be very surprised to see Bru hang ‘em up without a fight, stroke or no. Bruschi has been the ultimate gamer on a team of gamers for nine years, recently signed a four year contract for under market value to remain with the champs and played in his first Pro Bowl on Sunday (and that’s not even mentioning the Got Milk ads and the onslaught of future endorsements that are sure to come after that clip of Tedy and his kids playing on the field before the Super Bowl). My guess is that, barring a decisive “no-go” from the doctors, a healthy Bruschi will be in training camp this summer and will line up for the defending champs when they line up for the season opener on Thursday September 8th. Against the Colts.
Cut that meat, beeyotch.
posted by bd @ 2/18/2005 04:13:00 PM
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