While enjoying dinner with his wife on Monday, Arizona Diamondbacks right-hander Brandon McCarthysuffered a seizure that doctors have linked back to the head injury he sustained when struck in the head by a line drive last September.
The direct blow off the bat of Erick Aybar caused a brain contusion and skull fracture, and McCarthy required emergency surgery to remove bleeding that was causing pressure on his brain. It was a life-threatening situation that McCarthy pulled through physically and put behind him mentally in order to make his remarkable comeback to the mound this season.
But now comes this reminder of just how serious the situation was then, and though doctors warned McCarthy that seizures were possible in wake of his injuries, it also shows how unpredictable injuries to the head and particularly the brain can be.
This is scary. I hope he is ok.
