Los Angeles Dodgers launcher Dustin May was on the way to the return of injury, hoping to join the team to help them win a world series in July 2024.
May, 27, is rehabilitated from a flexor tendon and revision surgery from Tommy John, with a chance to come back late in the season.
On the night of July 10, everything changed.
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Los Angeles Dodgers launcher Dustin May launches during a training in the spring at camelback Ranch. (Joe Camporeale-Imagn images)
While May was still in rehabilitation in the Ranch Ranch Ranch of Dodgers, he ordered a salad for dinner.
May took a bite and felt the lettuce stuck in her throat. He tried to wash it with water, but knew that something was wrong.
For 15 minutes, it was “Mega-Peint”, said May via the Times, speaking of the incident publicly for the first time last week. The pain was in her throat and her stomach.
It turns out that May had unconsciously suffered a serious tear in his esophagus. He later learned that lettuce lodges in his throat punctuates his esophagus, something that is very rare.
Once the pain has dissipated, may think it would be fine.
“I’m not a big panicker,” he said. “It was somewhat disturbed. So I said to myself:” I’m fine. I don’t need anything to do anything. “”
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Los Angeles Dodgers The launcher starting Dustin May May warms up during spring training. (Rick Scuteri-USA today Sports)
Millie, May’s wife, was not the same thought as Dustin.
“No”, maybe recalls that she had said. “We are going to the emergency room to have it checked.”
After a scanner revealed the meaning of the tear in the May esophagus, the doctors immediately rushed into surgery.
“It was extremely frustrating. You can’t plan this. You can’t try to prevent it. It just happened,” said May.
“It was not on my bingo card for 2024.”
Surgery, which can describe as “fundamentally, complete abdominal surgery”, left the pitcher with a long scar from its stomach.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers launcher, Dustin May, launches during spring training at Camelback Ranch. (Joe Camporeale-Imagn images)
May has gone from a piece of dodgers who throw staff in the section, to realize how fragile life is.
“It just gives me a different point of view on a lot of things in life. The simple fact of seeing how something if not linked to the non-basal ball can be like-it can disappear in a second. And The things that put my wife through, it definitely gave me (a feeling) of: “Wow, the things can change like that.” It was really very frightening, “said May.
“It was definitely an event that changes life. It was definitely very serious. It is not very common surgery. It was definitely an emergency.”
The Tommy John de May procedure was the second time that he had undergone the repair of his elbow, when he suffered the operation in 2021.
May launched 191.2 in five seasons in the big leagues. It was effective when it is healthy, because it has a 3.10 MPM with 174 stick withdrawals when it is on the mound for dodgers.
The rotation of the dodgers is strewn with ace, which does not guarantee any guarantee that can be in the start -up rotation despite its health.
Los Angeles Dodgers Pitchers, on the left, Tony Gonsolin, Dustin May and Joe Kelly in the enclosure of the Lights during spring training at Camelback Ranch. (Jayne Kamin-Ocea-USA today Sports)
Blake Snell, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Roki Sasaki, Tyler Glasnow and Clayton Kershaw are among those in pencil in the starting rotation.
Anyway, May is enthusiastic about being in good health and capable of competing again.
“I am really excited and I really have a deeper appreciation for the game.”
