Tomorrow is the day. Have to report to doc at 6:15am. 45 minute drive. So early to bed. Early to rise. Thanks for all the guidance. Advise. And prayers. I'll keep you all up to date.
Chef, I have followed your posts for years since our guys are the same year. Prayers for your son, and for the surgeon(s).
Good luck tomorrow. Let us know how it goes!
Surgery went great. I watched and they had a nurse sitting with me explaining as they went. Doc came out said it was obviously a total rupture. He is in recovery.
They cut thru a lot of layers of muscle to get to ligament. He is gonna be SORE!
Road to back on the mound has begun
Again, best wishes on a full and speedy recovery!
Best wishes, on his road to recovery. Glad you got a second opinion.
Glad surgery went well, he is well on his way to recovery!
Unfortunately we will have an opportunity to compare notes my college soph has surgery scheduled March 16th. Man this has been tough mentally for everyone as there was no indication, he had felt great. Best of luck in recovery for your son !
2014 Dad posted:Unfortunately we will have an opportunity to compare notes my college soph has surgery scheduled March 16th. Man this has been tough mentally for everyone as there was no indication, he had felt great. Best of luck in recovery for your son !
I hate hearing about these injuries. Best wishes for your son and family, as well.
2014 dad. Answered your pm. Same about no indication. Jeremy handling it well so far.
Although lots of negatives, a few positives.
1. School -potentially if he wants- for 5th year with scholarship. So can either finish degree or work on grad degree.
2. For first time in life, will learn to deal with true adversity. And though I never ever want my kids to deal with adversity. Reality is they will and this one can be in a controlled environment where his family and team has his back.
3. For first time in his life, he will learn how to not be "the man". He has always been a great teammate but now he will learn how to be one even more.
4. I get to spend quality time with my son. He gets to realize even more that I love him not for son the ball player but just Son the man.
I am going to look at this as a positive experience in his growth as a man. To date, so is he.
Right this second, he has his girlfriend and 3 HS friends at our house with him. They are laughing in other room about who knows what.
Keep making it a positive experience! My own son went though two different surgeries over his 4 year college career, cutting short one year and summer ball and preventing him from pitching another (he was a 2-way player). Overcoming and having success after adversity is a life lesson, no matter what he ends up doing. Learning how to deal with it will make him a better person. My prayers are with you and your son for a speedy recovery and I'm looking forward to following his future successes on the mound and in "life."
Chef, we went through the same with our son and you are spot on about loving the man he has become. It made T1 put a lot of things in perspective.
As far as the out of pocket goes, we did the same with ours because school doc's really mis diagnosed everything. We went out on our own and kept our ins company informed every step of the way and they contacted the school to get second party payment info for the doc we went with. It wouldn't have mattered because like you we would have paid whatever it would have cost, well been on the payment plan like you, but regardless would have done whatever it took.
Maybe talk to your rep and see what your options are. The only out of pocket we had was $100 for the anistegiologist. Everything else has been covered between our ins and the schools. He even choose not to go back to that school and had follow ups for 3 months after and not any bills.
Good luck! He will be dying to hold a baseball in a week.
Update on UCL and TJ for son. Brace came off a week ago. He is so excited. He has full range of motion. He can now do lower body workouts. He is a little ahead of schedule but really that is not a concern of mine. Truly doesn't matter if he is ready to pitch in early January vs. in Mid February since the first game isn't until mid February 
. The trainer said the nice thing about being ahead at moment is 2 fold. 1, if he has a set back, he could still be ready for opening weekend. 2, if he does stay ahead, then he can build endurance for first outing.
As far as the insurance goes, College picked up the doctor who did his surgery as their team guy from now on. He had done the last 4 surgeries of team after not great advice by who they had previously used (who we saw first). Because of that, nothing out of pocket for me
Great news- sounds like progress is going well!
LHP son recently found out he will be redshirted....20 months post TJ finishing freshman year of college. Arm doing great and touched 91 for first time. Came into fall season at 80-82 (was 86-87 prior to TJ).
True test of persistence and staying the course.
Keep us posted on all his future milestones!
Another update. Shoulder strengthening going very well. Yesterday he was allowed to throw a baseball for first time. 10 throws at 15 feet- soft. He was SOOOOO excited
Sounds great ChefMike! Still remember watching him go head to head in the tournament against our ace pitcher (who also just had TJ) Good luck and hopefully his team can show the big dogs what is up this weekend!
TroyBaseballKid22 posted:Sounds great ChefMike! Still remember watching him go head to head in the tournament against our ace pitcher (who also just had TJ) Good luck and hopefully his team can show the big dogs what is up this weekend!
wait -ZK who plays for BG had TJ surgery? Wow that is a lot of letters!!! ZK and Jeremy played on same summer team (Raptors / MV Prospects) summer before senior year and summer after. They are good friends and I love his parents. Actually had some excellent parents / players from Troy that were his teammates those 2 years.
Yep - 2pm today is battle of Ohio, Then hopefully take out the #2 Louisville Cardinals. WSU have the ability, but baseball is a game that can go either way on any given day. Such as that playoff game between Troy and Miamisburg. Classic 1-0 tournament game. Both pitchers pitched great that day.
chefmike7777 posted:TroyBaseballKid22 posted:Sounds great ChefMike! Still remember watching him go head to head in the tournament against our ace pitcher (who also just had TJ) Good luck and hopefully his team can show the big dogs what is up this weekend!
wait -ZK who plays for BG had TJ surgery? Wow that is a lot of letters!!! ZK and Jeremy played on same summer team (Raptors / MV Prospects) summer before senior year and summer after. They are good friends and I love his parents. Actually had some excellent parents / players from Troy that were his teammates those 2 years.
Yep - 2pm today is battle of Ohio, Then hopefully take out the #2 Louisville Cardinals. WSU have the ability, but baseball is a game that can go either way on any given day. Such as that playoff game between Troy and Miamisburg. Classic 1-0 tournament game. Both pitchers pitched great that day.
Yes, he did. My family and his are very good friends as well! Our mothers worked together, my brother helped his dad coach a team and I played with ZK for a year back in the day. Came out when pitching against a B1G team, didn't feel good, got an MRI and then had TJ (by Kremchek) in the middle of May.
For sure. I'd love to see Wright State or even OSU pull one out in that regional (no offense to UL)
ChefMike:
Sending you a PM. Look like my son is going to have TJ with Kremchek in a few weeks.
Just replied Bucsfan. So sorry.
Update on the rehab since I am here. It is going very well. Jeremy started throwing in first week of July on flat ground. No pain to date. Says arm feels very strong. He has had 3 checkups (I think) since June including one today. Ultrasound today and cleared to continue the plan. Plan at moment is to continue with long toss daily . Throwing on a line as increased distance by 20 feet weekly. This is until he reaches 200 feet. Today he is at 120, with clearance for 140 as of tomorrow. The idea is this will increase velocity and strength without over extending. He said yesterday 120 is very easy for him but he is being watched closely (thank goodness) so he is not trying to increase velocity within a shorter distance.
After he reaches 200 feet on line then he will get on the mound (basically beginning of November). Not sure how mound work will be done but I know there is a specific plan. The goal to get him on the mound opening day of 2017 season and what they think as of moment is he will be with a pitch count of between 70-80 pitches.