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per the Palm Beach Post:
The former is a fact many know about Henderson, a third-year right tackle for the Buffalo Bills and former Miami Hurricane. The latter is something he didn’t know until last year, when a severe form of an intestinal disease turned his gut poisonous and caused doctors to think his football career might be over.
Henderson, speaking publicly for the first time about the pain and fears of his ordeal, said he played last season with stabbing sensations in his stomach that grew so bad his 6-foot-7, 330-pound body shook. He vomited regularly. He lost 50 pounds. Eventually, surgeons removed 80 diseased centimeters of his large and small intestines.
For three months, food he ate eat left his body through a tube inserted into a hole above his waist.
That’s because of Crohn’s disease, an incurable inflammatory disorder that can impair the function of the stomach, intestines, colon and nearby organs. Symptoms include abdominal cramping, diarrhea, internal bleeding and fatigue. Some cases are mild and treated through dietary changes. Henderson’s was especially severe. It caused doctors to say two fearsome words he didn’t think he would hear: emergency surgery.
“The pain hurt, but nothing scared me like that,” he told The Post by phone this week. “That’s when I got scared.”
http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news...nderson-mark-richts-granddaughter-shar/nsJnc/
Go Gophers!!
The former is a fact many know about Henderson, a third-year right tackle for the Buffalo Bills and former Miami Hurricane. The latter is something he didn’t know until last year, when a severe form of an intestinal disease turned his gut poisonous and caused doctors to think his football career might be over.
Henderson, speaking publicly for the first time about the pain and fears of his ordeal, said he played last season with stabbing sensations in his stomach that grew so bad his 6-foot-7, 330-pound body shook. He vomited regularly. He lost 50 pounds. Eventually, surgeons removed 80 diseased centimeters of his large and small intestines.
For three months, food he ate eat left his body through a tube inserted into a hole above his waist.
That’s because of Crohn’s disease, an incurable inflammatory disorder that can impair the function of the stomach, intestines, colon and nearby organs. Symptoms include abdominal cramping, diarrhea, internal bleeding and fatigue. Some cases are mild and treated through dietary changes. Henderson’s was especially severe. It caused doctors to say two fearsome words he didn’t think he would hear: emergency surgery.
“The pain hurt, but nothing scared me like that,” he told The Post by phone this week. “That’s when I got scared.”
http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news...nderson-mark-richts-granddaughter-shar/nsJnc/
Go Gophers!!
