Group: rec.sport.football.college
From: estebanJ
Date: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: Bills' Everett Paralyzed

On Sep 11, 8:08 pm, "David V. Loewe, Jr"
wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:10:58 -0700, estebanJ wrote:
> >On Sep 10, 7:37 pm, us wrote:
> >> s...@ says...
> >> > Hancock wrote:
> >> > > Wow
> >> > > /nfl/news;_ylt= ?sl...
>
> >> > no, apparently he's got feeling in his limbs. thank god.
>
> >> Everett apparently sustained a severe spinal contusion at a high level.
> >> You don't have to sever the spinal cord to be paralyzed. In fact, it is
> >> very rare for the spinal cord to be completely broken.
>
> >> The feeling and signs of movement are a good sign, but the final
> >> prognosis is months away.
>
> >ok, i read an article yesterday at that said the docs were
> >'guardedly optimistic' or somesuch about his chances. since then, the
> >newer articles have been much more pessimistic.
>
> Now, they are back to optimistic...
>
> /nfl/news/story?id=3014742

as i said two days ago - thank god. :)