Re: [Paddlewise] Doug Lloyd scheduled for open-heart surgery tomorrow

From: Gary J. MacDonald <garyj_at_rogers.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:09:04 -0500
Congratulations, Doug!

Your story reminds me of others I have heard where athletes don't test 
as bad as they feel, because they are extra healthy with lots of 
redundant capacity and because they are determined and have high pain or 
even discomfort thresholds.  Then the doctors finally take them 
seriously and act, and then wonder how their hip, shoulder, heart, etc 
kept going so long.  I think CT and MRI technology has helped this a lot 
by giving better images of what is inside.  

An athlete's "Yeah, 'it' smarts a little when I run more than 15k," can 
mean that 'it' is about to fall off in itty bitty pieces.

GaryJ
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