Bills' Kevin Everett in surgery

Doctor says injuries are "catastrophic" and "life-threatening."
Chances of regaining full range of body motion are very small.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3012739

 

Great, great news.
It dawned on me tonight that I covered a Miami game at VT where Everett dropped a sure TD on a fake field goal. Lots of papers ran a picture of him on the ground with people surrounding the end zone laughing at him.
"Doesn't seem at all funny now," my son said earlier today.

So glad to hear this news, let's hope it continues to get good.

 

DocTalk can talk better on this than anything but isn't this always the case with these type of injuries? Or no. Not that you get better the next day, just that it takes a while to tell.

 

It takes a while for the swelling to subside so they can know what is permanent and what isn't. But the prognosis they gave right away was based on what is usually the case. Usually an injury of that sort means paralysis. Apparently the doctor who was there, and treated him within minutes, was familiar with research they are doing about injected patients with spinal cord injuries with a cold saline solution as soon as possible. He did it, and it may allow this guy to walk again. Apparently by putting the body into a hypothermic state, it doesn't allow the swelling to begin that causes the paralysis. If that is the case, this is damned miraculous. The doctors were saying they weren't aware of a case in which a guy with an injury this serious was given the cold saline injection this quickly after the trauma.