12-03-2020, 12:45 PM
(12-03-2020, 12:38 PM)michaeltex Wrote: Showing my ignorance here, having never had a knee problem, but why wait until October to have the surgery? Did I see it was not related to the meniscus problem or other injury? Was it something that only became apparent as he tried to recover?
I'm just trying to understand the timing. If he'd had the surgery in September, we would be talking about how great it was to have our core 5 ready to go.
I'm not sure, either. But, my guess would be that the injury was minor enough to give them hope that the BEST option was to avoid surgery altogether, and that possibility was preferable enough to warrant giving it some time to see if it would heal on its own. Remember, he actually played on the injury against LA - not only staying in the game after it occurred, but coming back and playing the NEXT game, too. Then, they didn't seem to be 100% positive that he couldn't play the rest of the series, at first.
I tore my meniscus in a pickup game during college. The doctor told me to see a specialist and probably have surgery, but I never did - I'm not an athlete, and I had just come off of my parents' insurance. In less than a month, it healed to the point where I could walk just fine and I didn't even have to think about it. All my life I have waited for some sign of consequence born from the choice to ignore it, but so far, nothing. I honestly don't think a meniscus injury is all that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things.