Not so great news regarding Newsome
There was a sliver of hope last week (though the board hardly mentioned it) that Newsome was possibly very close to being cleared to play. Well, Harbaugh said the following in his press conference:
"How is the nerve going to come back. No one knows. Until that comes back, he won't be playing football."
Perhaps someone who has some medical knowledge could weigh in on the chances of a nerve growing back. I've never heard of it before but that doesn't mean much.
-1 for bad news
-1 for poor title.
proper title: "Some News on Newsome"
His title helped to prepare me for bad news. Your suggested title wouldn't.
Yeah, it's funny that the mgoboard guidelines make it pretty clear that you should avoid clickbait-style titles, so you make it as specific as possible and yet people complain it's too specific :/
Shoulda gone with News-ome.
Gruesome News on Newsome
I didn't know people were following rules on this board.
I vote for all titles must be palindromes (i.e. ‘emo’s: “Wen?” On no newsome’)
A wen is actually a pustule. Possibly apropos here.
Had to google that. Regret googling that.
Not a doctor...but I sliced the nerve in my thumb after a glass container broke. The surgeon basically said nerves are the slowest growing thing and not even guaranteed to grow back. It’s been two years and I still have no feeling in the top of my thumb.
have you tried sticking it in your tush? i heard that may help...
Doc, I lost feeling in that thumb, it was a one in a million shot!
I mean that feels amazing, but not in my thumb
Can confirm.
I would love to upvote this....
I lost the feeling in my thumb after I injured my wrist in a car accident and had to have surgery. It took a couple of years for the feeling to come back but it did and it's fine now.
I had a similar experience with my right middle finger tip and a non-sterile scalpel I was using for woodwind reed making (yeah I'm a band nerd). I stabbed myself pretty good and still have a scar; I also lost feeling in that finger tip for about 3 years.
So, it does happen. Slowly. But an injury as bad as Grant's might take a long time. On the plus side he's a fit, strong young man with access to one of the best sports medicine programs in the country, if not the world.
I'm pulling for him, as are we all, but he is already a winner IMO.
Oh no! Has it affected your ability to use that finger? That one's pretty important.
...only if you're driving through Ohio.
Or in East Lansing or South Bend.
Luckily no
Similiar injury to thumb, 19 stitches, took 5 years for feeling to return to thumb. And when it did it was all at once in seconds. Really strange.
You mean you went from almost no sensory feeling in the thumb to suddenly having sensory feeling all at once....after a 5 year wait? Like a light bulb suddenly flickered on after 5 years?
Did the doc say that is something other patients experience?
Yes. Like a light switch. Doc told me nerve tissue was the slowest to recover if ever.
I had heard of such cases. But yours is still unique in the 'light bulb' aspect. I had heard of sensory and motor nerves recovering after years, but with a somewhat gradual improvement over the course to weeks after the long delay of several years.
Anyway...glad your thumb sensation returned (eventually)!
Ever hear about John and Lorena Bobbitt...she cut "it" off and threw it out the window of their car. "It" was reattached and seems to have worked. The ultimate nerve regeneration story and a good read.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/lorena-bobbitt-john-bobbitt-25-years-696573/
As for Newsome, I'll keep my fingers crossed; I'd like him to be able to play but not if there is an increased risk of long term injury.
...have you ever met an American man who hadn't heard of Lorena Bobbitt?
I bet some under 25s haven't heard of her.
She is known as Loraina cutchakokov in russia
Q: What did Jeffrey Dahmer say to Lorena Bobbitt?
A: You gonna eat that?
In the bedroom, the mighty bedroom the Bobbits fight tonight.
In the kitchen, the mighty kitchen Lorraina grabs a knife
Aweinerwhacker, weinerwhacker, weinerwhacker, weinerwhacker
Well, even if this year doesn’t work out, maybe you will be granted a medical 6th year for the Thumb War team. Good luck with rehab.
Soak it in sideher :)
Two days after hip surgery, I realized my junk was numb. Doctor said the tourniquet compressed a nerve and the feeling ‘should’ come back ‘eventually.’ I asked why he didn’t bother mentioning that as a possible side effect of the procedure. He shrugged and said it was like 1% of patients. I was his 2nd—it happened to a female too. Dude had zero shits to give about my numb junk. And when I say numb, I mean numb—Michelangelo’s David has more sensation in his junk. Two eunuchoid weeks later, power was restored and I could resume looking people in the eye.
Wait. They put a tourniquet on you for hip surgery? Srsly?
Surgical tourniquets are, like, standard operating procedure. They keep the area free of blood so the surgeon can see what the hell they are doing.
Yes, but can you play with that?
/s
In a way, nerves are like hair- they grow where you don't want them to grow (neuromas, nerve ablations for pain), and they don't grow back where you want them to grow back (re-ennervation, repair of nerve damage, etc.).
I broke my jaw back in 2012. The doc cut the nerve to repair the shattered jaw, the nerve has yet to grow back. Still patiently waiting though.
:'(
Dang, I'm going to stop reading this post! Good luck to you and the other guys with nerve issues!
You've got some nerve!
Always +1 for dark humor
The nerve of that doctor!
Well at least we know who Smash LampJaw's alternate account is.
Nightmares of Denard's elbow.
:(
Best of luck to him! Hopefully he stays on as grad assistant and then maybe coach.
The writing is on the wall as far as Michigan football career, unfortunately.