Urban Meyer had surgery to reduce headaches.
I can't decide whether I should coachspeak something about "hope it's minor", make a joke about Dantonio being in his head, or bring up Marcus Hall..
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A good Ohio and a good Michigan
How about a good Ohio and a great Michigan?
Hope he gets relief.
I'd coach-speak it. I'd like to see Meyer have a great, long life and a terrible, miserable coaching career from this point forward.
I concur.
Maybe he really should retire. He has had lots of health issue, that could be contibuted to his stressful job. He is fairly young still, should go back to annoucing.
His presser after the losses this year show how hard he takes lossing.
Except this is a fairly inocuous procedure completely related to a minor quality-of-life issue. It's something he's known about since the late 90s, and got it taken care of because he was getting headaches. And the supposed heart condition that caused his issues at Florida was actually a total misdiagnosis of an acid reflux-esque esophageal problem that was almost immediately alleviated with a simple prescription.
The guy's health is a relative non-issue in relation to his job.
First off, no medical procedure is innocuous. Secondly, the odds that the arachnoid cyst caused the headaches are low. He most likely has vasospastic disorder which manifests as esophageal spasms or, in this case, migraines. Finding the trigger, which can be stress, and reducing it is the key to treatment.
I wish him well.
You just got knowledge'd! By ppToilet.
This "fairly innocuous procedure" involved drilling a hole into his skull
R.P. McMurphy nods his head.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnoid_cyst
Based on this, the cyst is most likely in his brain or on his spine, making this surgery either spinal surgery or brain surgery. Neither sounds like something you undertake unless you have to.
Hopefully he makes a full recovery and the fluid does not continue to build up, nor does the cyst grow.
Funny, because "arachnoid" might be the perfect description for Urban Meyer.
Get well soon, Urban.
I'm interested in learning more about it.
The MGoDoctors could probably do this better, but from what I was reading this morning (I was curious too), a fair number of these cysts are asymptomatic and many people never get past simply having them monitored.
One site said there are two common treatments if it does require this level of care - one is done via endoscope through a small incision near the cyst. They endoscope is used to open the cyst, allowing CSF to flow normally. The other is the insertion of a small catheter in the cyst which allows the fluid to drain elsewhere.
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pretty accurate. and in terms of neuro type procedures its minor. but as someone mentioned all cases carry at least some risk even if its younger patients on more standard anesthetic or infectious end of spectrum. hope hes fine, id never wish ill health on anyone, even if its mostly due to self destructive lifestyle. but the commentor who referred to meyer as a good guy - come on man - sure hes not a serial killer and he def puts players in pros where they can excel, but compared to other coaches, hes not a good guy, hes close to as sleazy as they come
First, they place a burr hole (drill a hole into his skull).
Through that hole, they place a tool which they use to fenestrate the cyst (make one or more slits into the wall of the cyst). By doing this, the cyst drains into the surrounding CSF
Urb.
Meyer should retire. What good is all that money if he can't spent any of it. He can continue to kill himself with 100 hour weeks or he can quit, go back to TV and work less than 40.
Besides, the only surgery that will cure his headaches is a surgery that makes him unable to be chronically pissed off.
Isn't this an argument for basically every big-time coach to retire? We could say the same thing about Saban, or Les Miles, or Stoops, or pretty much any of them who have made a boatload of money. The reality is, to get to their level means they like the job more than they like spending money anyway.
Some guys genuinely enjoy their life-crushing jobs.
i want him to be completely healthy when we slap his team around. i want him to live a long, healthy life, full of regret that he had us solved and then we started dominating him. i want him to be healthy when we leave him forlornly sitting on a golf cart, eating pizza, wondering how he's ever going to get up on us.
seriously, hope he gets better.
Wish him well. Leave the tasteless stuff to Sparty.
I really do hope he gets well. Besides, Nothing should stand in the way of us seeing the look on Urban's face when Jabrill Peppers torches Ohio for the next 3 years.
first round pick then?
Well if your gonna put me on the spot here..……yep!! First round pick. Hopefully not to the Lions though.
Danwillhor, I'm so sorry to hear about your migraines, and couldn't pass by the comment without sharing this: An ex of mine used to get them quite a lot. He took one of the prescription meds, which helped, but then he started getting therapeutic massage weekly and they gradually went away. He went to someone who called his practice "massage for pain relief" and knew a lot of physiology, no particular style, but relatively deep/heavy and just let him do his thing. I think they started to reduce in a few weeks and were essentially gone after 6 months (and dropping to biweekly for maintenance).
I hope yours improve!
Looks like that thread from yesterday on him in the hospital did not need to be deleted.
When a thread is built upon a unsubstantiated rumor found on RCMB, and the MGoThread's OP has nothing new or insightful to add, it must be removed. So while it turned out Urban was indeed in the hospital (for something less dramatic than yesterday's thread implied), this is the only post on the topic that was ever needed or wanted.
Thread did not imply anything dramatic or horrible for urban Meyer. It did t add anything new, but brought the topic to the attention of normal MGo users who don't frequent rcmb, and so was useful.
The OP implied nothing dramatic and cited that it was a poor source. Though some of the replies certainly took the leap to the dramatic. Personally, I thought it was valuable at the time, because I don't look at such poor sources and knowing rumors like this can be of value as they do turn out to be true. But I am sure the moderators have a better sense of how often they are true. The flip side to that is that there is an enormous amount of untrue speculation posted here that is never deleted or properly sourced.
Rumor threads like those pan out like 1/3 of the time, and when they do, people are always like, "SEE, Y U NO LEAVE OTHER THREAD UP." But people rarely say anything the other 2/3 of the time. The whole point is that it may or may not be accurate, but without a source (and no, teh RCMB doesn't count as a source), it goes away.
Is that the doctors also unsuccessfully tried to remove some slime that seems to ooze from him they also reported tons of sand in his nether region....weird.
Not true. Heard from reliable source that Urban was first human recepient of morally and ethically enhanced stem cells.
Unfortunately, every other cell in his body rejected the moral ones, and so he needs another operation from a corrupt source. Rumor is that Jim Tressel rushed to the scene.
hopes that whatever was removed included the part that helps him remember offense.
and a speedy recovery.
In this case, Urban Meyer would most likely be telling recruits that he heard Urban Meyer was probably going to die.
The nagative recruiting regarding Urban and his ability to coach is going to be epic, led by the SEC (specifically Florida). Tressel enjoyed this with the Lloyd rumors and now payback is a bitch, OSU.
I don't know how well recruits are gonna respond to nagging.
Don't go to OSU, Urban Meyer is just going to leave you high and dry due to health reasons, just like he did to Florida. How has Florida done lately? They drilled into his skull in the offseason.
I also beleive that a chiropractor and/or massage could totally help relieve stress or tightness, pinched nerves etc which can cause headaches. I'd hope he tried some of this and not with undergrads(wait, not Petrino okay may be safe....).
Not sure if the drilling into skull part is even correct 100%(Depends on cyst location), but most negative and/or dirty recruiting isn't anyway.
I mean Dantonio called Hoke the pillsbury doughboy but that can't be correct as he's still alive.
http://funnybizblog.com/funny-stuff/pillsbury-doughboy-obituary
From someone that suffers from migraines, I hope it works, Coach. Get well soon.
Any type of surgery with the brain is scary as hell - I dont care how "minor" it seems to the clinicians. I hope he recovers fully and I hope the surgery was successfull in all ways.
As a Michigan grad who had his cancer successfully treated at the Ohio State James Cancer research center can tell you with absolute first-hand experience that some things....no MANY things...are far more important than football. This is definitely one of them.
I hope the pain is relieved. I do not have chronic headaches, but I know too many people who do suffer that way, and I know it isn't fun. I do hope that the surgery is successful, meaning not only that there are no complications, but that this brings relief from regular headaches.
While I hope Michigan's football fortunes increase significantly, I don't want to link that to Meyer's headaches and to bringing him pain. For me, it is about Michigan doing well and playing well and improving. While this means that I want Michigan to win all their games, the affect Michigan's winning has on other teams or coaches is immaterial to me.
and his family the best.
This story was talked about on this blog yesterday, with less detail, and it was thought to be inaccurate. But it does show that we should continue to be careful of the stories we float on this blog.
My prayers to him and hope he is back at work quickly. As someone else said, a strong Michigan and a strong Ohio State.
hope he recovers. As I said yesterday, I think he's a jerk, but I want him to be a healthy jerk.
...he doesn't suffer for his success. I understand why you'd want him as your coach, but I wouldn't want to be him. I hope he gets some relief from this.
Today I realized I'm not a horrible person when I found myself saying out loud "please be ok, please be ok" as I clicked on this thread link. I'm happy to hear he's doing well.
What situations occurred that left this realization in doubt?
I mean, just the constant hating Ohio thing. I thought perhaps it was unconditional, but I guess it has its limits.
I still hope we beat OSU.
I really disdain Urban, but I would never wish for such health problems on my worst enemy. Dudes getting a hole drilled in his skull...minor surgery or not, that sounds like no fun at all. Hope for a speedy recovery.
He gets better soon, don't want any excuses when we beat them this year in that hole they call a stadium. Thoughts and prayers.
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Buy him an Ohio T-Shirt!
He is curing his headaches by drilling a hole in his head? Wouldn't that give you a headache?
to stop his headaches.