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Phill11

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Saw this in the Box Score today. I was busy glued watching the draft and am disapointed I missed this.

"DIAMONDBACK LEFTFIELDER ERIC BYRNES LEFT THE GAME AFTER THE SECOND INNING WITH A FRACTURED LEFT HAND SUSTAINED WHEN HE WAS HIT BY A PITCH."

Supposedly out 4-8 weeks. I don't know if those 4-8 weeks will be long enough... Maybe he can rehab for a while after recovering?
 

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What the heck happened to Conor Jackson? Looks like Parra has a job for 2 more months
 

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Pretty bad luck for Byrnes. I knew he broke something when he got hit. The sound was just too thuddish. I'm not a doctor, I just play one when I watch TV.
 

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What the heck happened to Conor Jackson?
Valley Fever which led to pneumonia, while three successive doctors were mis-diagnosing it.

They say he won't be back to playing condition at all this season.
 

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Like I said awhile back -- I got Valley Fever Pneumonia in 1987, was flat out non-functional for 2 months, and just exhausted for several months more. I couldn't return to full time work for almost six months total and was sleeping 12-14 hours a day at first.

I would have felt like a piker, except a guy where I worked had gotten it a year before and it went 'systemic' (one step past pneumonia) and almost died; he had to get medication straight into his cerebrospinal fluid and never was able to work again. Then in 2001 my sister got it, was misdiagnosed for a month or so, got pneumonia from it and then it went systemic, and she died from it.

So don't expect Conor to be back anytime before September, IF then.
 

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Thats interesting I also had it in 1987. I was hospitalized for a week. They finally gave me a some high level drugs and I snapped out of it. For six weeks I had to go to the hospital for 3-4 times a week as an outpatient to get an IV. I am fortunate that it never came back. I was about the age of Conor when I had it. With the way the season is going theres probably no point in bringing him back this year. I am sorry to hear about your sister
 

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Apparently at U of A they are studying genetic variations in susceptibility, since 95% of people who get it just think they have a short mild flu or a low-grade cold, if that. Obviously my gene pool is highly susceptible.

It never goes away 100%, I've been told, just lurks (in the lungs, usually) -- several of my physicians over the years have cautioned me not to take immuno-suppressants like prednisone on a long term basis.
 

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