re: Face the Music…Greg Brooks is doing what 99.5 % of what everyone of us would do

I can honestly say that I would not slander and sue a university that made sure I didn’t pay anything for treatment

He probably saw NFL and hoped it was vertigo -

I know many many people who have had cancer including 2 good friends that have passed from brain cancer. None were looking for a pay day. They were looking for more time. That’s it.

Chicken shite

You are just telling on yourself and yours. You cant imagine anyone not being like you. I promise you, i am not.

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Then that's a father - son issue or a son - father issue.

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damn, you called your parents every day in college?

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damn, you called your parents every day in college?

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If I had vertigo in college, yeah I'm probably going to run that past my parents. Call me crazy.

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I dont think they have the strongest case, and i as a professional i don’t know if the duty of a football coach requires them to get an cat scan within 40 days when a player reports reports symptoms like that. but their sons life is changed forever and i won’t judge was another man does in a situation like that.

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We all know that Brooks’ diagnosis was made in less time than the average for his cancer, so the hand-wringing over the initial assessment, which was completely in line with Brooks’ symptoms, is kind of ridiculous.

As for what it can take to get a diagnosis, my cousin’s late husband died of brain cancer. By the time his symptoms were severe enough that he sought treatment, it had already spread and he was stage 4. Even with surgery and aggressive treatment, he was gone in 2 months. And the surgery definitely had negative effects on him. He could hardly speak after. That is how many successful invasive brain surgeries go.

My wife is an even better example. She has a benign tumor in her ear that destroyed the balance nerve on that side over time and has slowly deceased her hearing in that ear. When your balance changes slowly, your body can adapt, so by the time her hearing was affected enough that she really noticed and she went to the doctor, was referred to a specialist, and then got an MRI, it was over a year for the diagnosis. And it had been growing slowly for many years before that. That’s how long something like this CAN take.

People can get mad at the staff all they want to. When they are told by the trainers and medical staff that a player has vertigo because that’s how the symptoms line up, that’s what they are basing anything they are saying on. No one in that profession is jumping to tumor and cancer conclusions taking care of 17-24 year old players. They aren’t going to look for anything else until it doesn’t respond to treatment and medication, and that could be a few weeks.

If Brooks and his family believed something more was wrong, then he should have gone and gotten a second opinion.