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Wait, are you trying to tell me her head really didnt hurt?Literally. Excuse. By. Girls. To. Not. Put. Out.
"I don't know what it was, but we're gonna have to correct it."
Back in the 90's I was diagnosed with stress headaches. I could work all day but when it came time to sleep my brain went in overdrive. Doc gave me some meds and I started getting 9 hours sleep a night and the dreams were amazing.
Maybe Larrier needs the antidote.
These last two would make good tweets. Just add "Sad."If a guy is too sick to play he is too sick to play. I never question injuries or illness. It’s the rest of the team that is the problem. They quit before the opening tip.
You can’t compare stress headaches and cluster headaches. We don’t know if that’s what Larrier has, but if it’s the case he has my sympathies.
Clusters are often referred to as head attacks instead of aches.
Sufferers are reluctant to talk about them because there is no way someone who doesn’t get them could understand as evidenced by the “you just need a good night of sleep” or “I take two exedrine migraines and it always does the trick”.
Excedrine for a cluster is like trying to put out a forest fire with a squirt gun.
Calm down. It was a joke.
Everyone over the age of 3 knows he debilitating a headache can be and how much it can affect your ability to mundane tasks, nevermind perform as a D1 athlete.
Literally. Excuse. By. Girls. To. Not. Put. Out.
Funny how I never seem to hear of Duke or unc or Kansas or Kentucky, etc. Etc. Players getting headaches.
This is exactly my point. Why was he there then?Just being at the game probably caused him significant pain.
To be clear, I don't mean to make light of any bona fide medical issue, and Larrier may well have one. I didn't see any mention of him having cluster headaches or any migraine history; I thought it was believed to be related to an elbow to the face in the Tulane game, which, to me, suggests that they are thinking possible concussion-type symptoms.
I'm no doctor and I understand that concussion protocols have changed recently and that cocooning is no longer required in the immediate post-injury phase. But the image of Larrier laughing and joking around courtside was the first thing they showed when they cut to the broadcast of our game, and the juxtaposition of that with the announcement that he was sitting out due to headaches created an indelible image in my head that Key & Peele couldn't have done better if they were trying to parody us. It felt like we were being pranked. Reading that quote about the headaches being caused by the exertion of energy only reinforced that feeling.
Ripping off Elvis Costello, I posted elsewhere yesterday "I used to be disgusted, now I'm just amused." I didn't realize how accurate it was at the time. I have to laugh or else I will go crazy with disgust. I get that injuries happen and that progress is not linear, but the lack of energy from the top down on a night like last night is very tough to take--almost as tough to take as waiting almost an entire half to take a timeout to address the problem.
So...anyone had any good pizza lately?
I don't know. If it was a cluster headache or he had some history, why not say that? I don't recall ever hearing this issue with him previously, do you? The only thing I recall was his comment that he and Jalen always start games feeling lethargic. Maybe that was part of the energy headache-prevention protocol?If it was concussion related, why not say that? People understand the medical ramifications. Reporting it as a headache is something most people fell a player should just “suck up.”
Truly "40 minutes of wtf" .
Correction, UCF game:I thought it was believed to be related to an elbow to the face in the Tulane game, which, to me, suggests that they are thinking possible concussion-type symptoms.
The Huskies got word before the game that Larrier, their second-leading scoring and rebounder, would not be playing. Larrier, who took an elbow to the cheek against UCF last Wednesday, played at Tulane Saturday, but had been having headaches the last couple of days.
I don't know. If it was a cluster headache or he had some history, why not say that? I don't recall ever hearing this issue with him previously, do you? The only thing I recall was his comment that he and Jalen always start games feeling lethargic. Maybe that was part of the energy headache-prevention protocol?