T.J. McConnell visited Dr. Michelle Carlson of the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York this morning.
I visited Dr. Carlson some years back for a vicarious calcification in my left wrist, the lingering results of a HS football injury to my wrist, botched corrective surgery [bone fusion]; it used to flare up at odd intervals, and I really messed it up in a fight, protecting a young man who worked for me at the HMV retail store from a coked out bully. The guy cold-cocked me in the face, and as I felt my inner primate coming forth, I heard a voice say, "Turn around Chip, and walk away," which I was prepared to do, when the bully grinned and went into an Ali Shuffle to mock me. I went primal, and I'm told I threw a left at him, which is funny, as I am surely no grappler/tough guy, at which point this bruiser went Whoa Nellie, NO MAS, and put me in a headlock. I couldn't break the head lock so I supplexed him to the floor and while we were down there, I ripped his expensive leather jacket from stem to stern.
Next day, my wrist went postal, and I had a cortisone shot, which only made things worse on my way to a Workmen's Comp hearing.
Anyway, my wrist went south on me a number of times until I visited Dr. Carlson, who was much more scientific and proactive in her use of the cortisone, and I suffered no post-treatment angst, and no subsequent flare ups or consequences going on 25-30 years now.
Seeing the Pacers guard going to Dr. Carlson, put me in mind of a visit to her office, where a number of Knicks players were then patients. Grateful I had the benefit of her expertise.
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