GET OFF HIS BACK

PLEASE GET OF JARED GAITHER'S BACK, LITERALLY!

I'm so tired of hearing the media and fans bitch and moan on behalf of something they have never experienced.  Nor have they ever been athletes, or it appears that way as I continue to hear the questioning of his health.  First of all I don't think anyone can talk UNLESS you've had serious back issues.  Now I haven't spoken with Jared recently so I don't know the whole story, but I do know back issues.  I am a former athlete, I still play sports, but not on anything close to that level.  I've had many injuries, par for the course, if your scarred to get hurt than don't play!  I have plates, screws, washers, sprained ankles, MCL & ACL injuries, broken ribs, punctured lung, concussions, fractured hip and an 18MM bulging disc. 

What I can say is that the back has been the scariest injury of all.   I wouldn't sleep for 3 months at a time, nervous to move the wrong way after getting up from a chair or reaching for something for fear of not being able to move or be out of commission for lengths of time.  It's mortifying, it still is.  There was a fear that I may be completely disabled, NOTHING that I have encountered even comes close to this injury.  I have dropped to my knees, been reduced to laying on ice, legs elevated on the ground.  BACK ISSUES ARE IMMOBILIZING!!  They put real fear in you, its not like a sprained ankle or broken bone, you cant just wrap it and play with it, (and tell yourself your being a puss for not participating) with total uncertainty of the outcome.  After years and I mean years of being scared, I finally gave in and skated anyways for I was going to hurt no matter what I did, grocery shop, fold laundry or even get into my car.  Now, let me re-inerate I have NOT spoken with Jared recently or about his injury nor do I aim to put words in his mouth, all I know is my own experience.

A few years ago I had steroid narcotic epidurals in my back a series of 3, this after three different opinions as again let me state, i was scarred to death for them to do anything to my spine for fear of being totally handicapped.  It helped a lot!  Along with as much PT my insurance would allot, MRI only after I had done PT for 3 months as well, LOL.   Also I heard on the radio today, total ignorance that all Jared needed to do was see a Chiropractor or sit in a ice bath or get a massage, ARE YOU KIDDING!~the morons, don't you think he would of already done all those things and this only puts a band aid on it.  I was hooked up by one of the best Sports Therapist/ Chiropractor's and I went every week, for 4 years or more, it was the only day I felt good.  So again, GIVE HIM A BREAK!  Unless you've had  a different experience, but when your back is failing you, any move I MEAN ANY move can make you drop to your knees.

Let the amazing Blindside who the CHARGERS are grateful to have mend, obviously he doesn't want to talk about it, it's pretty scary stuff, which you only know if you've been through what he's going through.

SPEEDY RECOVERY WISHES JARED!