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Reggie Williams' bad knees are no match for his great spirit
Reggie
Williams, former Bengal linebacker, has enjoyed a very success and
fruitful post-NFL career, including a stint as a Cincinnati councilman
and an executive position with Disney. But, like a lot of NFL players,
Williams has suffered lingering effects from football.
Williams nearly lost his right leg due to a severe infection in his
knee.
An Orlando Sentinel article does not spare the gory details, if you must. (Otherwise, skip past the photo.)
"[Williams]
spent 70 days in the hospital, watched his knee turn into a gory
crevice...
Doctors had finally killed the osteomyelitis that was devouring his
knee. They'd filled the hole by detaching Williams' calf muscle and
using it as a flap."
Then, check out the gruesome photo...
Okay, now I can enjoy my oatmeal breakfast.
Yes, it is sad that anyone has to endure such pain, but Reggie Williams has fought valiantly, as the NY Times writer George Vescey captures:
Reggie Williams' bad knees are no match for his great spirit
Reggie
Williams, former Bengal linebacker, has enjoyed a very success and
fruitful post-NFL career, including a stint as a Cincinnati councilman
and an executive position with Disney. But, like a lot of NFL players,
Williams has suffered lingering effects from football.
Williams nearly lost his right leg due to a severe infection in his
knee.
An Orlando Sentinel article does not spare the gory details, if you must. (Otherwise, skip past the photo.)
"[Williams]
spent 70 days in the hospital, watched his knee turn into a gory
crevice...
Doctors had finally killed the osteomyelitis that was devouring his
knee. They'd filled the hole by detaching Williams' calf muscle and
using it as a flap."
Then, check out the gruesome photo...
Okay, now I can enjoy my oatmeal breakfast.
Yes, it is sad that anyone has to endure such pain, but Reggie Williams has fought valiantly, as the NY Times writer George Vescey captures:
In
his darkest days, [Williams] said, he was buoyed by reading Viktor E.
Frankl’s enduring book, “Man’s Search for Meaning,” the perspective of
a Holocaust survivor. “He had a chance to escape, but he didn’t do it,”
Williams said. “He had to maintain a certain sanity and not have
negative thoughts.” Williams was sustained by a network of great
friends, many of them African-Americans of talent and character who had
been recruited to Dartmouth College in the tumultuous but idealistic
’60s and ’70s — the generation that led to our new president, to new
hope.
--Marc Isenberghis darkest days, [Williams] said, he was buoyed by reading Viktor E.
Frankl’s enduring book, “Man’s Search for Meaning,” the perspective of
a Holocaust survivor. “He had a chance to escape, but he didn’t do it,”
Williams said. “He had to maintain a certain sanity and not have
negative thoughts.” Williams was sustained by a network of great
friends, many of them African-Americans of talent and character who had
been recruited to Dartmouth College in the tumultuous but idealistic
’60s and ’70s — the generation that led to our new president, to new
hope.
