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“Are you the surgeon?” He looked at me skeptically

“Yes, I am I have had a chance to review Mr Blakefield’s x-rays and it looks like it will be a rather siery”

He scowled “There’s nothing si my star quarterback under the knife”

“I can understand your hesitation But I assure you, I’ve performed this same type of procedure before and I expect it will be fairly smooth”

“When can he play again?”

I stared at him “Excuse me?”

“Play When can I get him back in practice?”

“He has a fracture that will have to heal on its own, andto also add to the healing process I’d say with physical therapy and cooperation froht weeks That’s optimistic”

“Eight weeks! We don’t have eight daht red, and for an instant, I thought he azines and throw it across the room

“Maybe it would help if you told me how the injury happened” I still didn’t have any details after I hisked from the fourth floor

“We were running drills this ht, so I was throwing it at the his head “Anyway, Wes slipped and the line ran right over him Complete accident, but one of the cleats crunched his hand Freak thing to happen in practice”

“I see”

The coach continued “We knehen Wes stood up holding his wrist that it was serious We did the x-rays on-site at our facility”

That explained why soed

“Well, Coach Howell, I think he’s ready for surgery I’ll give you an update as soon as we’re finished Try not to worry The good news is his life isn’t at stake, and he’s going to make a full recovery”