The ref they carried out on a stretcher early in Baylor Gonzaga game
USA Today yeah I know I know. But cool story bro. Or whatever it is you young kids say these days.
What a horrific title. The only thing missing is “doctors hate this one trick he used to survive!”
The blood clot trick the government does NOT want you to know about!
The whole article is written in an odd manner. Like a fast-talking salesman in the 20s or something.
Good god that writing was horrible. I just skipped down to find out about the blood clot.
Man...I tried to get into the flow and feel for what the author was going for but it just wasn't working. I agree with you. I just read it really fast and tried to use/insert some "odd" cadences to see if again, I could understand what they were going for. So I thought maybe I just ended up reading it wrong but I see I'm not alone in my distaste.
(They seemingly tried to make a straightforward story into, like, a magazine main story)
Awful title. Wrong game. It was Gonzaga/USC. Article was awful, but glad the ref is healthy.
Oops
April 10th, 2021 at 12:56 AM ^
Your title should be specific and informative.
Instead it comes off as cheesy clickbait. The only thing missing is 25 slides to get to the end of the story.
Nobody really wants that and I’m sure neither do you.
This info is in the 2nd paragraph of the article. How do you not read 4 sentences into the same article that you posted?
So early in the game that it happened 2 games earlier.
Another connection to the A-10 tournament, too...
Wat in tarnation
Dude is 56 - top shape. Had COVID in august
what caused it was a blood clot in his lung. Scary stuff
April 10th, 2021 at 12:18 AM ^
I think 4/20 has come a couple weeks early for the OP.
April 10th, 2021 at 12:19 AM ^
What THA Blood Clot!!!
Reason 6 he collapsed may surprise you
Glad to hear that he is ok, and that they followed up with additional testing even though he seemed to be 'ok' after the incident.
Obviously, blood clots are no joke...hopefully, there's no other underlying issues that lead to the clot in the first place; however, now that they have that condition in his medical records, I am sure they will continue to keep tabs on it.
Serious question, what is your substance of choice this evening?
April 10th, 2021 at 11:09 AM ^
Grammar be like important and shit
I am embarrassed at how much I giggled at this. Apparently I am still 15 years old, decades later.
Dang I went to the wrong job fair.
Well, I can speak for the blood clots - I've had one in my lungs because of my other problems, and I am actually on Eliquis because of it (and the other issues), in fact. They are certainly not a joke and I am glad he is OK. Fortunately, everything has since resolved itself, but it's funny to walk around in the full knowledge that if one of those lodges itself in the right way that you could be in a bad way rather quickly.
April 10th, 2021 at 10:17 AM ^
Eliquis is pricey stuff, hope you have good insurance.
April 10th, 2021 at 10:26 AM ^
For me, a 90-day supply is about $30 - I have a very nice plan indeed, yes. I know the market price on one bottle is quite high though.
April 10th, 2021 at 10:43 AM ^
I’ve had a PE too. Very scary stuff and I was walking around with it ignoring the pain for several days before going to the ER. Probably should have died and I’m very lucky. A girl at my law school, in her mid 20s, developed a PE and died almost immediately from cardiac arrest.
I’m on pradaxa, but previously took xarelto and warfarin. Very glad to not have to get my INR checked every other week now.
April 10th, 2021 at 11:32 AM ^
How do they scan for a blood clot in your lung? The only lingering condition I have had related to Covid (besides loss of taste/smell) has been an odd tightness in my chest. But it seems to be over the rib cage.
CT angiogram
Yep. Easy and painless test, just a metallic taste in your mouth and you feel like your pissing yourself. Costly, though, without good insurance.
I have factor V Leiden, which mixed, with my then, sedentary lifestyle led to the clot.
April 10th, 2021 at 12:29 PM ^
I also had a pulmonary embolism, when I was 37. “Idiopathic” meaning they have no f’n idea why it happened. So I am stuck on the blood thinners also, which sucks, but at least in my case I have minimal side effects from them.
The QB RichRod took a flier on that got kicked off the team...
Can we please start keeping track of bad thread titles? Maybe make a Hall of Fame or some shit?
MeanJoe07 read this thread title and smiled thinking it was John O'Neill. It was a different sport of course, but koalas sometimes get things wrong.
April 10th, 2021 at 10:13 AM ^
I really wanted to know what happened but I just couldn’t read the whole thing. Good to know I’m not the only one.
April 10th, 2021 at 11:10 AM ^
talk about trying to fill column space.....
April 10th, 2021 at 12:09 PM ^
Charles Barkley should get some credit here from the broadcast booth side of things. He was pretty angry at halftime when he heard that Smith went back to his hotel room and not the hospital for evaluation.
You can't force a patient to get treatment I suppose, but Barkley sent a good message to the general public in my opinion.
Some things, like a sudden collapse head crack to the floor, need to get checked out by the docs.
April 10th, 2021 at 12:38 PM ^
I had this exact thing happen to me when I was 53. It's called "The Widowmaker" because it moves very quickly if your time is up. It happens when a blood clot moves from your leg to your lung, and it doesn't have to go anywhere from there, it kills 1/3 people, and fast. Luckily for Mr Smith and myself, it wasn't our time. The good news is it's very treatable once they know you have clots, blood thinners are cheap and highly effective with no side effects. Suspect he will be wearing a sleeve on his calf the rest of this life, that's where most of them start. Symptoms are an ankle that looks like it's sprained but no pain, cramps in your calf when you work out that you can't run thru, and suddenly feeling out of breath when you do things that normally don't get you into oxygen debt. Glad the doctors were there and diagnosed it, but honestly they didn't save his life, that time. Just wasn't his turn, thank God.
“Widow maker” actually refers to occlusion of the first part of of the left anterior descending coronary artery causing a fatal heart attack, not a pulmonary embolism.
Very unusual for a PE to present with syncope
OP just didn’t finish the title. He meant to add, “... wasn’t Justin Feagin.”
Message board titles.
The Michigan difference.