Quote (LuLer @ Sep 26 2016 06:23pm)
Boucher said MacArthur is feeling concussion symptoms but "it's as good as we can hope right now."
Meh, not sure if he should come back at this point.. There are things more important than hockey in life. Here's what he had to go through last year hopefully he doesn't have to with this one :
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MacArthur’s condition went from bad to almost intolerable.
“I needed toothpicks to keep my eyes open for the next two weeks,” he said. “The headaches. I can’t even describe the feelings. It was awful.”
MacArthur visited a specialist in Ann Arbor, Mich., who suggested he could be back playing before the new year, but weeks turned to months with no improvement. MacArthur couldn’t ride a stationary bike, couldn’t do anything that raised his heart rate, without the headaches returning. He felt useless around the house.
“I felt like I was failing, this (doctor) said I would be back by January and I can’t even work out,” he said. “I’ve got a five-month-old at home. It was tougher on Jess than me. It was pretty scary. Whatever I did with that hit in Columbus, all the vestibular (which controls balance) went to hell in a handbag. Focusing on anything was just painful.”
MacArthur’s daily trips to the rink were only heightening his depression. At 30, the 10-year NHL veteran, who has scored 133 goals and 171 assists in 548 career games, thought about retirement.
“At one point in late November, early December, I was thinking I was done, maybe this is it,” he said. “I had to get out of there. Every day you’re coming to the rink and you want to go on the ice. It’s like going to Disneyland. Everyone else goes on the rides and you’re outside the doors, watching.”
He turned off hockey completely, returning to his summer home in Rochester, N.Y., for two weeks. He received well wishes and advice from Ryane Clowe, the 10-year NHL veteran who officially retired due to concussions last September. He also found some bigger-picture perspective in talking to his parents. His mother, Deb, is a breast cancer survivor. His father, Dean, survived prostate cancer"