Gronk On the Verge of another setback?

[Rob0729]

Re: Gronk Suffers another setback

The title of the thread and, more specifically, the article, is misleading since his infection was reported in February and no new setback is reported now. Specifically, no evidence is presented that the infection did not respond to treatment. He is being treated and the outcome will not be known until the surgery to remove the plate.

You missed the key quote from the article:

Gronkowski is nearing the end of a six-week cycle of antibiotic treatments administered under the auspices of Massachusetts General Hospital, but it is not yet assured the infection has been completely eradicated.

So it looks like the infection may have been eradicated, but the doctors don't know for sure.

This looks like "Tom Brady may miss the 2009 season non-news news story 2.0". A lot of worst case scenarios being passed along as if it is assured of happening.

 

[PatsGuy]

Re: Gronk Suffers another setback

People laughed at the support and healing qualities of wrapping the injured forearm in a huge kielbasa when I suggested it.

By Kielbasa I hope u mean the REAL Kielbasa and not the Hillshire Farms crap

 

[fumbrunner]

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Well, we do have all those great WRs to cover off his production if he isn't ready for week 1. Oh wait.......:bricks:

 

[Mack Herron]

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You missed the key quote from the article:



So it looks like the infection may have been eradicated, but the doctors don't know for sure.

This looks like "Tom Brady may miss the 2009 season non-news news story 2.0". A lot of worst case scenarios being passed along as if it is assured of happening.

I did not miss it. This course of antibiotics is standard therapy for the previously reported infection. There is no evidence as to whether they did or did not work. Removal of the plate is also standard treatment. There is no indication that any of this was new or not known in Feb. What is the new setback? None is reported.

 

[Rob0729]

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BTW, if Gronk's forearm is completely healed, why would he need a new plate in his arm? I know a lot of people leave the hardware in their bodies after a broken bone is healed, but I have never heard anyone actually replace plates and pins with other plates and pins after a bone is healed.

Why would a plate in his forearm even be necessary at this point? I thought the only reason a doctor even leaves a plate in someone's arm is because the patient doesn't want to have the surgery to remove the hardware.

 

[Pewsterbaby]

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Worst case he is not ready for the start of the season? I'll take that all day. Less opportunity for the big guy to further injure himself.

This. (I've never used that term before. I think I've missed the bus on it by now. anyways...) Yeah, my strategy would be to hold off Gronk-o-rama until after Thanksgiving.

(Jackson2 putting 50 Yard Line in the proverbial bunker was funny. I'll throw in a tin foil hat ta boot. "I know a lot of doctors and they all say to me..." Classic. You shoulda seen all of the people who ran over here with stethoscopes around their necks and weighed in on the Gronk injury when it first happened last season. 50 Yard Line's take on microbiology was reminiscent of that.)

 

[Rob0729]

Re: Gronk Suffers another setback

I did not miss it. This course of antibiotics is standard therapy for the previously reported infection. There is no evidence as to whether they did or did not work. Removal of the plate is also standard treatment. There is no indication that any of this was new or not known in Feb. What is the new setback? None is reported.

Sorry, I didn't mean to make that accusatory. I just wanted to point out the ridiculous of the article in that the infection appears to be completely healed, but the doctors aren't 100% sure and how this article is taking the worst case scenario and makes it sound like it is the likely outcome.

 

[RhodyPatriot]

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Best way to get a nasty, hard-to-treat infection these days is be in a hospital. Antibiotic resistance has gotten nasty. My father's final days were afflicted by MRSA (definitely resistant), my mother's by sepsis (less clear). My wife had MRSA for a while (not hospital-based) as well.

Very very true. The great irony is that the WORST place in the world for anyone who is already sick/wants to remain infection free is to be IN a hospital. The general public has no idea how out-of-control hospital born infections are. Very few people come out of hospitals in better shape than when they went in.
Sad but true.
Confident Gronk will overcome this. Question is how long and what type of permanent damage is possible.

 

[PatsFanSince74]

Re: Gronk Suffers another setback

The title of the thread and, more specifically, the article, is misleading since his infection was reported in February and no new setback is reported now. Specifically, no evidence is presented that the infection did not respond to treatment. He is being treated and the outcome will not be known until the surgery to remove the plate.

Yes. As another poster said, let's all wait for a "real" news source to report the story. The Herald, whose site I have proudly not visited and for whose print edition I have not payed a penny since the infamous article by Tomass, does not qualify as such.

This is just one more reason to confine that "news"paper to the tabloid trash heap.

 

[Brady'sButtBoy]

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Borges never misses a chance to kick the Pats in the jewels. Guregian must have been desperate for someone to pay attention to her (not that she's bad but largely unnoticed) to add her name to this 'work.' The two of them ought to be ashamed for even publishing such if/maybe/maybe/maybe/if trash, but considering the paper they are employed by it's little surprise.

 

[Nehalem]

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Well, we do have all those great WRs to cover off his production if he isn't ready for week 1. Oh wait.......:bricks:

Well as a positive it would force Brady to develop chemistry with the new WRs and Ballard. So that when Gronk was ready the league wom't know what hit them.

The goal is to win in January not Septmeber :rocker:

 

[VOODOOZF]

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I hope this is a non story, but if it is true the Patriots offense is going to start the season off being pretty anemic without Gronkowski,Welker and a legit #2 WR. Neither Hernandez or Amendola are good enough to carry an offense the way Gronk or Welker can.

 

[patfanken]

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So let me get this straight. 3 pages later this article states that EITHER Gronk could lose his arm to an infection, or ........he's perfectly fine.

What's next for Borges and the Herald, a headline warning us that Tom Brady is getting.....OLDER, and that at some point in the future is going to fall down and break a hip

Or how's this one. EVERY day, hundreds of people are killed in car accidents. So the odds of one day a Pats player is going to be one of them grows greater EVERY day. Who could it be>. Ron Borges demands to know why aren't the Pats doing something to prepare for this tragic eventuality?

I mean, really, how different are my "stories" from the one the Herald gave us. Its a fact that Gronkowski was being treated for an infection. We know that the infection COULD be completely gone.....or it might not be. The same can be said for EVERY person in the country under an antibiotic therapy. How exactly is this "news:

Now stop trying to worry me about possibilities that MIGHT happen. I have enough anxiety worrying about that asteroid that will eventually strike the earth, plus I recently heard that the Sun will eventually burn out. What will we do then for heat, huh?

 

[DaBruinz]

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I gotta say that it's not like the OP the subject us to this sort of news without vetting it first... I say he needs to be strung up and shown porn of Ron Borges and John Tomase so he never does this again..

 

[serifyn]

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so the doctors are going to perform a 4th surgery to remove the plate, a 5th surgery if there is still infection and put in a new plate, and a 6th surgery to remove the new plate and a 7th surgery to remove the infec.....

Might as well let Gronk have his next surgery done inside of my garage using farm tools and a staple gun ffs.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

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I gotta say that it's not like the OP the subject us to this sort of news without vetting it first... I say he needs to be strung up and shown porn of Ron Borges and John Tomase so he never does this again..

I believe that violates the Bill of Rights, which bans cruel and unusual punishments.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

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We are pumping out filthy food supply full of antibiotics to keep the animals alive (barely) and fat in horrid conditions until they can be slaughtered. Because of this, we're building a whole new gang of antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria. Doctors are terrified of this.

As a not-so-minor point, the primary reason for giving farm animals antibiotics isn't to prevent infections. They're primarily used to promote growth.

 

[Tunescribe]

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so the doctors are going to perform a 4th surgery to remove the plate, a 5th surgery if there is still infection and put in a new plate, and a 6th surgery to remove the new plate and a 7th surgery to remove the infec.....

Might as well let Gronk have his next surgery done inside of my garage using farm tools and a staple gun ffs.

They should just put a damn teflon zipper on the thing or fit him with a bionic forearm. At least it wasn't his right arm.

 

[serifyn]

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There are more potent antibiotics around, but nobody wants to use them because they can cause kidney failure, Liver malfunction, Pancreatic inflammation and a wide variety of other ugly and potentially deadly side-effects.

Pretty close to the cure being worse than the disease.

 

[Jimke]

Re: Gronk Suffers another setback

The portion of this caption that is misleading are the words "another setback".
This is the continuation of something that occurred back in February. In a
week or so, we should learn whether the infection is cleared up or requires
further treatment. If not, we can start worrying again.