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.""He was a charming prince.""And I'm not?""Oh no, not going there, Mr.McCoy.But I appreciate the information.I will be sure to, um, thank, Eloni when I see him for his next appointment.""Don't be mad at him.I tricked him.""I'm not mad.Actually, I'm a little flattered.""I knew you had it in you, Doc.""But flattered or not, I am seriously concerned about your shoulder, Mr.McCoy," she said, sitting down at her desk and taking the MRI results out of his chart."Look at these images, particularly right here.These are from the MRI that your team had done after the Denver game.We aren't just looking at impingement and tearing, we have evidence of serious and repeated damage to that right shoulder.Basically, you had a sudden trauma during a prior game.From the notes here it was a few weeks before the Denver game.Your arm bone was forced hard into the shoulder socket.Add onto that, the repeated trauma you are seeing in other games, and the damage is simply not healing on its own.That is quite serious.""I've been doing physical therapy.""I saw that in the notes.I had hoped the physical examination would show some progress from it, but it doesn't look that way.""I can get a cortisone shot to my shoulder before games.""Cortisone shots are great.But, they need to be used sparingly, and you can't rely on them."I'll do more PT.""Physical therapy hasn't been enough, so far.A treatment course based solely on PT could be a possibility, if you were a pharmacist that happened to enjoy playing softball on the weekends.But you're not.You're an elite professional athlete.Your performance will never improve and that pain won't go away, unless you have this surgery.The good news is that as long as you don't re-injure that shoulder more seriously, you should be able to make it through the last few games of the season.Then I recommend you have surgery immediately at the beginning of the off-season.""There's got to be another way, Doc.Eloni said you had other advice for him, too.Gave him relaxation exercises or something.""That's true.I treat the whole athlete.""I'm not just an athlete, though.I'm a person."His words jarred her back to her meeting with Richard.Am I doing it again? she asked herself.Treating the athlete and not the person? Only seeing a chart and not a human being? If it truly is a barrier to my success, then maybe I need to step back and listen to this man."That’s very true, Mr.McCoy.I do try to take that into account — to understand the emotional strain you face.The accommodations athletes need to make to address those challenges.Your body is your life and your livelihood… I get that.""Because you were an athlete?""Excuse me?""Eloni told me you played basketball, blew out one of your knees.""Um, yes.I just don't talk about it much.Most of my patients know it, though, that's true." Jenna looked down at her notepad and tried to regain her composure.The memory of that injury was still fresh and sharing it with Wyatt felt incredibly intimate."But I'm not a patient.I'm a consult.""What? That's true," she said, looking up and focusing on Wyatt again."I take it just as seriously, though.Yes, I do try to bring my experience as an athlete to bear in all I do.The benefit is that I understand the strain of being at least a collegiate scholarship athlete.To have all those responsibilities.""And you know football? I played with a guy at UT your dad coached in high school.They don't get much better than him apparently.He even used to coach at Georgia.""Wow, you really did your homework, Wyatt.""I told you I take my career very seriously.Georgia's a pretty good gig.You don't see a lot of assistant coaches step down voluntarily.""True, but that's a hard life to have as a solo parent with a young child.""My mother would agree with you on that point," Wyatt said darkly.Jenna paused, wanting to pry so much into his life, but knowing it was wrong.Instead she simply said, "Yes, I read once that your parents are divorced.Being married to an NFL player can't be easy."Wyatt's face creased in what looked almost like anger, but it wasn't aimed at her, she could tell that.It looked more like the face of someone with an old hurt — an unhealed wound.It was an expression Jenna had seen on her own face more than once [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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