Baller: 44 yr old man in medically induced coma for 3 days after marathon, says first words were "what time did I do?"

Love it. Sign of a true runner.

truly obsessed wrote:

Love it. Sign of a true runner.

Well we forgot to mention the 2nd thought he had was , "Why did i do this?"

He now no longer competes as his wife is scarred and won't event travel to London. He just stays fit but doesn't race.

It's amazing how strong motivation can be.

They put me in a medical coma for three days, to allow my body to recover.

They later told me that people don't usually pull through [the medically induced coma]

This fellow is very lucky to have survived what they did to him!

People need to understand this is typical. When they are able to get you in a hospital, they will do ANYTHING they can get away with to keep you there till you die, while they are racking up the expenses in the meantime. This is a well honed racket, and they usually get away with a lot.

I seriously doubt his liver (good grief) and kidneys shut down and that he got pneumonia from running a marathon. Even if he had. putting him in a medically induced ????? coma did NOTHING to help him and was more likely to keep him on the edge of their intended medically caused death, while they did all their bogus and expensive procedures.

WAKE UP PEOPLE. Be aware of what they are doing, and don't let them keep getting away with their murders and abuse!

[/quote]my times suggested I could finish the marathon in around three hours 40 minutes[/quote]

Even slow runners can have huge balls.

can't tell if troll or actual conspiracy theorist, but between this and the enemas you suggested for my duodenal ulcers you might legitimately actually be this crazy

LetsRun.com wrote:

[quote]truly obsessed wrote:

Love it. Sign of a true runner.

Well we forgot to mention the 2nd thought he had was , "Why did i do this?"

He now no longer competes as his wife is scarred and won't event travel to London. He just stays fit but doesn't race.

It's amazing how strong motivation can be.[/quote

Still racing but not longer distances

I blacked out in a race one, and when I woke up in the ambulance, I asked the guy if I could finish the race. He said no, and the next time I woke up I was in the hospital.

I'm calling BS on this story. Maybe not completely but definite exagerations in there. So he does not race any more but we can trust his words 4 years ago

First he is telling it 4 years later

Second he is still racing ('I don't race) and even did races in the same year it happened

Dedication is someone training 7 days plus a wk not some glory hog

If not for the road-race industry, he would probably be in a local athletics club competing in the shot put against neighboring towns.

Funny how he kept going till he collected his medal. They hold up that shiny medal at the finish line to bait millions of people who aren't well-equipped physically for the event, and they'll even pay big entry fees for the chance to collect it, maybe even risk death.

A real runner would have stopped his Garmin before he collapsed.

A real runner wouldn't be wearing a Garmin or any other GPS watch in a marathon.

R2D3 wrote:

A real runner would have stopped his Garmin before he collapsed.

[quote]Lol Garmin wrote:

A real runner wouldn't be wearing a Garmin or any other GPS watch in a marathon.

:D Totally!

Nope no troll. JR generally disagrees with most concepts of modern medicine and believes that the majority of doctors are absolute quacks.

I have not seen him go so far as to say that the doctors in hospitals murder people. That is truly getting into conspiracy theory territory.

LM wrote:

xenonscreams wrote:

can't tell if troll or actual conspiracy theorist, but between this and the enemas you suggested for my duodenal ulcers you might legitimately actually be this crazy

Nope no troll. JR generally disagrees with most concepts of modern medicine and believes that the majority of doctors are absolute quacks.

I have not seen him go so far as to say that the doctors in hospitals murder people. That is truly getting into conspiracy theory territory.

In my ulcer thread he told me to eat more raw vegetables (if you've ever had symptomatic ulcers, you probably know raw vegetables are some of the most difficult and painful things to eat), and give myself enemas (the ulcers are too high up for that to even be relevant). When I told him he was spewing pseudoscience, he called modern medicine "medical religion pseudoscience."

So. Yeah. If he's serious, he's a bit nuts, and probably a conspiracy theorist on top of that. This place sure attracts some interesting characters. I'll stick to Prilosec for now.

In multiple threads he's told people not to worry about iron because "the Kenyans have very low iron." %#$%.

And in multiple threads PEDS are a myth promoted by medical science, or something like that.

The guy is a baller if he's running a decent time, like at least sub 2:30 and he had a dream race. He's not a baller if he's asking if he broke 5 hours.

Either way the story is either total BS or greatly embellished.

coach d wrote:

And in multiple threads PEDS are a myth promoted by medical science, or something like that.

He's a likable loony. Well, loony anyway.

using the term "baller"