AC Milan injury update

Rino Gattuso, who has been out since Milan's first game of the season back in September, has been cleared by team doctors to resume training and could even play in a game sometime soon. Gattuso has been suffering from a condition known as Sixth Cranial Nerve Palsy which caused the muscles in his left eye to fail to function properly and resulted in double, triple, and even quadruple vision. Let's all hope that Rino will be back on the pitch for AC Milan sometime soon.

Below: A drawing of a person suffering from Sixth Cranial Nerve Palsy

AC Milan injury report

From ACMilan.com-

OFFICIAL NOTE: THE MEDICAL SITUATION - 1 -

1/19/2010

MILANELLO - Mathieu Flamini: during Milan-Siena he suffered a contusive trauma to his right shoulder and today he did differentiated training. His conditions will be evaluated in the next few days.
Alessandro Nesta: he was subjected to an ecography which evidenced an oedema to a muscle in his right thigh. The footballer will be subjected to further controls on Thursday morning.
Massimo Oddo: he had a resonance control which evidenced the progress of his healing. In the next few days he will be able to intensify his workloads.

OFFICIAL NOTE: THE MEDICAL SITUATION - 2 -

1/19/2010

MILANELLO - Pato: he was subjected to an ultrasound monitoring which confirmed a lesion to his right adductor. The footballer will be subjected to physiotherapy and further controls in the next weeks.
Clarence Seedorf: he will be subjected to a resonance control and if the outcome is positive the player will become available again.
Gianluca Zambrotta: this morning he was subjected to a resonance control which evidenced a healing to his right calf. The footballer will continue in his differentiated work programme.
Oguchi Onyewu: the rehabilitation continues in the United States, where he will be joined by a physiotherapist of the club, who will evaluate the times of his return to work at Milanello.

What I have been reading lately #42

A Dog In a Hat: An American Bike Racer's Story of Mud, Drugs, Blood, Betrayal, and Beauty in Belgium by Joe Parkin

Joe Parkin raced bicycles in Europe (mostly Belgium) in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This book talks about his experience. There are actually fewer stories about performance-enhancing drugs than I had expected and more stories about outright cheating. For example, I did not know that in small kermis races it is (or, at least, was) common for riders in the final stages of the race to makes deals with and offer money to other riders to be allowed to win. Also, it is (or, at least, was) common for riders to be helped and pushed along by team officials riding in nearby cars when no one was around to see.

Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle

Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle

Guy Delisle is a French-Canadian animator. He spent a few months working in North Korea for a French animation studio and then wrote a comic book about it. Later on, he went with his wife and child to Burma while his wife was working for Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders). He wrote a book about that as well.

What I have been reading lately #40

Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-Torn Village by James Maskalyk

This book was written by a Canadian doctor who spent six months in Sudan with Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders). He was not in Darfur, but, instead, spent his time Abyei, which is in the southern part of the country. For more on the situation in Abyei, click here.

I also read Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains which is about Dr. Paul Farmer who works in Haiti and other parts of the world. I think a lot of people have read this book.

Finally, I read Joe Sacco's War's End: Profiles from Bosnia 1995-96. It took me about twenty minutes to read because, after all, it is a comic book.

Another official announcement from AC Milan

Yesterday, Alessandro Nesta scored twice on headers to lead Milan to a 2-1 victory at Chievo. Today, AC Milan made this announcement on their website:

A.C. MILAN OFFICIAL NOTE

10/26/2009

MILAN - A.C. Milan communicate that the footballer Alessandro Nesta was subjected to the reduction of a small fracture in his nasal bones by dr. Paolo Marconi. The Rossoneri player will be regularly available for tomorrow's training, ahead of the match in Naples.

Above-- Nesta scores his second goal.