Very bizarre. Any doctors have an idea as to what happened.
The trainer looked at him and said, "let me know if you have any problems."
He went to doctor a few days later, went to hospital, got out, went back and died.
Not sure how they can screw up a story this bad. Happened in Plainview Tx about 600 miles from Houston. Kid was JV stretching on infield disc rolls in to him as he stretches out before his JV race which he won. Worst case scenario he dies 2 days later. One of those weird inexplicable freakish things that totally sucks.
If he was indeed hit in the hip, he could have sustained a fracture of his pelvis that then went into a slow venous bleed. Sometimes these things are difficult to detect unless you have an astute physician who understands trauma. If a pelvic fracture is not reduced nor the bleeding stopped, you can die of hemorrhagic shock. This is my understanding of the above story.
^^ is pretty much correct. The discus had not been thrown. It had been "bowled" along the grass by an athlete trying to fine tune his release. Plainview is about half way between Lubbock and Amarillo.
Your post is confusing;
Most likely an embolism (intravascular clot or mass that lodges in the brain or lung).
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Most likely an embolism (intravascular clot or mass that lodges in the brain or lung).
This. It was my first thought when I read the article earlier on Mail Online. I then asked my husband who works in the medical field about what could have happened and he stated the above.
absolutely no way he had a "slow hemorrhagic bleed". anything short of a massive pelvic fracture, and a vein will clot itself off (i.e. stop bleeding. the kid ran a race after, for goodness sake. deep vein thrombosis followed by pulmonary embolism would be the likely cause, though some type of bone fracture could also cause a fat embolism to travel to the lungs, albeit extremely small chance.