Where did you go to school...
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Van, since your here...
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90 minutes??
I posted once tonight and it took me all of about forty five seconds. :-)
Anyway, to answer your question, I grew up in Sherman Oaks, California (a San Fernando Valley suburb of L.A.) and went to Notre Dame H.S. (I can hear TiC laughing already...)
Upon graduation I was only offered a partial baseball scholarship to USC so I instead stayed local (and affordable) by walking on at C.S.U.N. to play there. During my freshman year there I was diagnosed with a pretty severe case of Thoracic Outlet Syndrome and I was left with a couple choices:
-Have two separate surgeries, each involving six month recuperation times, to remove my upper most ribs. (I have a rib misalignment that when combined with the musculature I carried back then managed to pinch off the blood flow leading into each arm. My arms were going dead just from simple things like swinging a weighted bat over my head during warm ups...)
-Cut back on weight work and reduce the musculature in my shoulders and upper chest to relieve the pressure on my pinched off blood flow.
The first option meant no baseball for a minimum of nearly two seasons and then who knows what after that? The second choice meant no surgeries and no being on disability for a longer time than I could afford. I chose the latter, and that was the end of both my baseball "career" and, as it turned out, my college career too.
Fairly depressed and completely rudderless (and having no income), I dropped out of college and went to work to pay for my living expenses and to help my recently widowed mom, and that was that.
I never returned to C.S.U.N and I never graduated from college.
I posted once tonight and it took me all of about forty five seconds. :-)
Anyway, to answer your question, I grew up in Sherman Oaks, California (a San Fernando Valley suburb of L.A.) and went to Notre Dame H.S. (I can hear TiC laughing already...)
Upon graduation I was only offered a partial baseball scholarship to USC so I instead stayed local (and affordable) by walking on at C.S.U.N. to play there. During my freshman year there I was diagnosed with a pretty severe case of Thoracic Outlet Syndrome and I was left with a couple choices:
-Have two separate surgeries, each involving six month recuperation times, to remove my upper most ribs. (I have a rib misalignment that when combined with the musculature I carried back then managed to pinch off the blood flow leading into each arm. My arms were going dead just from simple things like swinging a weighted bat over my head during warm ups...)
-Cut back on weight work and reduce the musculature in my shoulders and upper chest to relieve the pressure on my pinched off blood flow.
The first option meant no baseball for a minimum of nearly two seasons and then who knows what after that? The second choice meant no surgeries and no being on disability for a longer time than I could afford. I chose the latter, and that was the end of both my baseball "career" and, as it turned out, my college career too.
Fairly depressed and completely rudderless (and having no income), I dropped out of college and went to work to pay for my living expenses and to help my recently widowed mom, and that was that.
I never returned to C.S.U.N and I never graduated from college.
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