95.5 Reports Roy OK

you beat me by a micro-second

exhale
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I owe Timbo some money, send your gifts to him.

Waking up to this in NYC was a real bummer.

I had to stop I was becoming violent.

it’s like we could be family or something. Weird.

I woke her up cursing from the other room.

I didn’t want to ruin her morning. I just purchased her a female roy jersey. She was SOOOO happy with it yesterday that I was worried she might be crushed.

I told her it was nothing so that she could go back to sleep with no worries.

I’d like him back sooner, but I agree giving it a little extra time.

I’d like the team to play together to get a rhythm BEFORE games start. remember last year when that didn’t happen? slow start? Yeah.

The stuff they used to activate the Mummy in the original movie

… steal from the voodoo alter at Marie Laveau’s in New Orleans last year, Holy crap. Talk about temping some bad luck. I hope he was a L*ker or Spurs fan. It would be great to start out 2-0 over those dudes.

Priceless. Let’s just hope he doesn’t pull a Favre.

that is diff. than this basketball injury. Only time will tell obviously but I think the Blazers would say if he is goinjg to need to be out for an extended period of time. We do have a competant training staff and a much more classy front office than Mr. Bynum’s employer.

Sophia

And it’s reportedly a minor meniscus tear thingy, then it isn’t likely much more can happen.

The Bynum scenario is strange because not many details have been released and his dislocated knee cap wasn’t supposed to take this long to heal, but like Sophia said it’s a seperate injury altogether.

My biggest worry (since I think he’ll just rest up and be back n’ running in no time) is that this surgery, even though it is minor, becomes a semi-regular offseason thing.

Not a horribly big deal compared to other surgeries, but you don’t want Roy getting cut open too often.

But don’t worry! Roy is fine now! He wouldn’t dissappoint us.

Mortimer

… USUALLY.

it is because our programs are not perennially good. Instead, we have a chance to do something special maybe once/twice a decade. Therefore, the possibility of us getting screwed by injury or bad luck are much worse because they ruin the year (as in “this was THE YEAR we win it all!”). Dennis Dixon last year was a great example.

On the flip side, for perennial powerhouses (lets say like Ohio State, for example) there is always next year, because it is highly likely that they will be equally as good next year. We don’t have that luxury, at least, it doesn’t FEEL like we have that luxury. Maybe we are just overreacting.

And the PTB, but looking back through Blazer history and there is a lot of bad juju, and I’m not even talking about the Jail Blazers’ era (though game 7 2000 could be pretty obviously linked to some type of "curse").

• Bill Walton’s foot injury (not to mention they traded away Moses Malone before that cause they had Walton)
• Sam Bowie
• Arvydas Sabonis (both his achilles and waiting a dozen years-ish before coming over)
• Uncle Cliffy’s boggle in the WCF
• That 90’s team in general just not quite getting there
• Clyde leaves and wins a Championship with Houston
• Greg Oden’s knee

The list could go on… I realize a lot of this stuff just happens but holy poo, that’s quite a list.

First of all, you have two menisci in each knee. Over time and under pressure (sports), everybody’s meniscus gets thinner until it can potentially rupture. There are also milder forms of meniscus contusions, which just require rest for a few weeks (apparently not the case here). Usually a rupture only happens to the interior one (meniscus medialis). There are at least four different sub-forms of meniscus tears, depending on extent and direction of the rupture, which in turn influences the treatment. Especially for athletes, a tear needs to be fixed asap, as it doesn’t grow back together by itself and under more pressure the problem will worsen and the tear gets longer / deeper.

As Quick reported, there are two basic ways to fix a meniscus tear depending on the form of the injury: Cutting away damaged tissue (re-section), or “sewing” the torn parts back together (re-fixation). As I understand Roy’s case, they went with the first method in both incidents. This is good in the short term especially for athletes: Virtually no healing process in the knee, you can put pressure on it after about a day (as opposed to after about three weeks), and take up light training like cycling on a stationary bike after two weeks or so, before starting with “stop-and-go” movements after six weeks. But then again you lose some part of your meniscus with this procedure, and the goal should be to preserve as much as possible as the prognosis for your knee without a meniscus isn’t terribly good for high-impact sports, e.g. more pain and the risk of developing an arthritis goes up (see below, I think Ben had that done).

This problem can repeat itself and degenerate over time depending on a number of factors, ultimately contributing to the development of an osteoarthritis (a permanent inflammation of the joint). There are treatments to regenerate / bolster a meniscus with artificial materials, e.g. with collagen implants (which even stimulates re-growth of own tissue a la a micro-fracture). But rehab after that procedure is pretty long term (out for about 6 weeks, and 6 months until full function is restored) and preferably that should be done at a later age.

And if we all wana keep our good juju goin’, we all gotta agree to say the same thing and actually BELIEVE it.

On this, all depends!

Mortimer

of course we would wish Kobe well if he was injured. goodness.
anyone with an ounce of empathy can see that Kobe’s a great athlete and an injury would impair damage his whole ability to do his thing.
sure he probably gets paid way too much and he’s obviously got some personality issues but still the dude is an artist and yes no question we would support the dude and wish him well.
no one likes to see any athlete get injured. when you get right down to it that’s a tragedy. when your whole reason for being gets put out of commission. I still think one of the saddest cultural losses in the past twenty years or so was Bo Jackson’s hip injury. that dude could motor with the best on the football field — amazingly quick for a guy his size — and he could hit a major league fastball pretty damn good too and run the bases I think he stole 40 and hit 40 homers one year. then he got that hip injury and deterioting condition until he got a hip replacement and then he payed another year or two of baseball with an artificial hip. he could still hit the ball. some humans are really amazing most of us are just average.

I don’t like how KP admits to being on pain killers around the 2 minute mark.

stuff they pull out of the human body and make it into dog food…..and then ironically send it to China. It is the circle of life…or some such.