I hope and pray that all goes well for him. He is a fun player to watch!
My mother suffered a horrible stroke in the summer of '79, at the age of 32, and was told she would never walk again. The following summer, she was water-skiing. Now, she still walks with a limp that gets more pronounced the longer she's been walking, and her left arm is more-or-less useless, but back then strokes killed a lot more people than they do now, and someone like Bruschi has way, way better medical care than anyone dreamed of in '79. It wouldn't surprise me to see him come back and play.
But what is he basing his decision to come back on? A lot of very well qualified medical opinions, so we're told.
crash, I'm sorry to hear that. My family has a zillion good stroke stories, thanks to the luck of the Irish. My grandfather, a true Irish cop, struggled through a series of strokes in his later years. My mother and I still refer to boats on the water as "cars" in honor of him. Best story: my aunt received a call at work from a neighbor telling her Pa was out painting the house. At age 70+. After a few strokes. In his on inimitable style: tying a rope around the chimney and hanging down the three stories of the house. Job needed doing.
