re: My little cousin Greg Brooks road to recovery

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He literally called out BK and LSU for basically ghosting his son during his recovery.

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Once families start talking to lawyers and about how surgeries were performed and possible liability, there was no talking directly to him or anyone in his family anymore. I know it took a while for them to sue, but a suit like that takes time.

It’s an easy talking point and rock to throw now, but no direct contact is advice from legal counsel 101, no matter how it looks.

As for OLOL, first off, that’s not LSU. Secondly, I’m definitely not surprised by the lack of quality care there. I was treated by a complete quack of a urologist who was on-call there my freshman year at LSU (94). He botched my kidney stone diagnosis multiple times, performed a surgery with 0% chance of success because couldn’t read an X Ray, and then sent me home thinking I was good. When I ended up back at the hospital for a third time and had to be admitted, he would hardly visit even though I was in terrible pain and had been up for more than 24 hours. Then he had me taken to Radiology and left me there unattended other than the brief attempts to take X Rays every 30 mins with no pain meds for over 4 hours. My parents finally gave up on him and came and found me and then tore him a new one. I was pretty delirious at that point, but I do remember that.

I ended up with very large stones moving on each side at the same time (pretty rare). They had no chance of passing on their own. I ended up in critical condition with both kidneys 95+% blocked before my parents threatened to sue him and he finally performed surgery to remove them. I’ve never seen a doctor as incompetent as this man. It’s also not the only story of incompetence I’ve heard associated with OLOL.

When I went home, my regular doc, who was published and one of the best in that region, told me to never go back to that hospital or to see that doctor again. He gave me a prescription for Dilaudid (which wouldn’t happen in 1,000,000 years today, but he had known me since I was 9 and that I wouldn’t mess with them). He told me to take two and have my parents come down and drive me home (6 hours each way) if another hit while I was in school. Thankfully I only had one more while at LSU and it was over and passed pretty quickly.

Prayers to Greg and his family.

Every single player had to get that stupid shot in 2020or they wouldn’t be allowed to play. And we all know that effing thing caused more blood clots and tumors than they are ever going to admit. Never had to happen what a shame.

You’re exactly right. Just a sad situation all the way around. I certainly hope the win their lawsuit because it killed what LSU could do.

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That’s sad AF. Prayers to Greg and family. Also a terrible look for BK and LSU.

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Every brain tumor is different and just because Michael Strahan’s daughter did well, doesn’t mean everyone else will have a similar outcome. Tumor location and difficulty of removing it plays a big factor in post operative stroke risk.

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And for ABC to not at least point this out in their reporting is, at best, shitty journalism. At worst, it's deliberate malice to get clicks which is disgusting.

Ya'll forget HIPAA...

Usually it takes a seizure for doctors to think you have some kind of growth, infection or tumor.. at least that's what it took in my situation

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39 days

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That's 5 1/2 weeks. Most of us couldn't get doctor appointments set up that quickly. You cannot compare the success of the Strahan medical case with GBJr's. Too many variables.

So you’re a moron then.