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“Everyone agreed that I needed surgery (as soon as possible).”
August 16th, 2006

It was as bad as it looked.

Scott Souza, in today’s Metro West Daily News

 >http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/sportsNews/view.bg? 
articleid=137992&format=text<

brings a lot more details to light regarding Jefferson’s surgery and  
the events leading up to it.

    { It was the week after he returned from Las Vegas when Jefferson  
said he reached a tipping point. Unable to walk without pain during a  
brief return to his home in Mississippi, he scheduled another in the  
series of MRIs that dated back to the original injury. He said the  
latest one finally did reveal significant swelling and led to a CAT  
scan that diagnosed bone chips in the ankle.}

There seems to be some very good news from Al’s point of view.

     {“They did a lot of work on the ankle with shaving the bone and  
everything and they thought it would be fat or swollen afterwards,”  
he said. “But the only way you could tell I had the surgery was the  
stitches.”}

It’s also very important that he holds no grudges against the doctors  
that missed the seriousness of his injury.

     {“At first I was thinking that if this was it we could have had  
the surgery in May or June,” he said. “But it’s not their fault  
because everybody was looking at the same (MRIs) and it didn’t show up.}


JB
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