sad to hear about bruschi.after a good season with the pats.but i think Jerseygirl.u mean REGGIE WHITE.unless u are talking about another reggie.
Quickly... and yes it's WAY more than where we are at with Bruschi right now, but there's a point to be made. Lewis collapsed a couple times. A couple teams of doctors assembled evaluated him. A team led by Dr. Mudge out of Brighams and Womens in Boston, a team out on the west coast, and a virtual "dreamteam" of cardiologists from Boston. Dr. Mudge out of Boston, said Lewis was fine. Just had a fainting condition, but his heart was fine. The Dreamteam of doctors thought Lewis had an ventricular arrythmia. Meanwhile, the other team in California found a heart abnormality. Lewis and the Celtics went with Mudge's evaluation that Reggie was fine and able to resume normal basketball activities. Reggie Lewis later died of a heart attack while working out. After that, there are allegations of cocaine use and a series of lawsuits that just make the whole thing sad and ugly. The point I, and maybe MC, was alluding to was no one wants to see Bruschi come back if he shouldn't be. The player and the team need to think about his health above and beyond keeping him on the field. That's all. May be a bit excessive in comparison, but you just don't want to see another Reggie Lewis situation happen.
What jerseygirl said. I remember it vividly; the findings of the "dream team" were discussed at length in the Boston newspapers. I remember thinking at the time that this was the case of an individual shopping until he found the opinion he wanted: a not-uncommon reaction with medical problems, and one that not uncommonly leads to tragedy. Cocaine use, I think, mox nix to that aspect of the situation: it doesn't matter if the cause of the problem is licit, illicit, chemical or congenital, it's all in how you deal with it.
Fair enough. But I'm unwilling to see it as analagous until Bruschi is told he's in danger and then goes venue shopping for doctors who will vet his return.
Comparing this health situation to Reggie Lewis is way over the top. The idea that Reggie Lewis, Hank Gathers, or Daryl Kile would drop dead in their prime were way over the top too. Ten years ago, a coworker and friend dropped dead of an undiagnosed heart condition on the basketball court practicing for our next game. He was 27. Never saw it coming. Bruschi's lucky to have found out about this and survived. I think the comparison to Lewis is fitting, because in both cases a person who has every reason in the world to believe in his own indestructibility was proven incorrect.
Which means it's also analgous to the time Superman got killed.
