Nick Griggs: Tyrone Back Training athlete after fighting “chronic disease”
Among the scans that did not diagnose the reason why there had been a fluid accumulation in the treatment with the right knee of Grugs, ice and compression at the Sport Institute of Northern Ireland, initially seemed to work in the first half of January.
However, a sudden deterioration soon left the average distance athlete to the starting point.
“The fluid had meant that the range of movements had disappeared, I couldn’t run, I couldn’t go by bicycle, I couldn’t do anything, but this time it was actually different where I could wake up in the middle of the night and would be throbbing for pain.”
After yet another afternoon scan before Storm Eowyn had caused chaos, with osteomyelitis, a bone infection, now diagnosed, the doctors told Griggs that would have requested doses twice a day of intravenous antibiotics during a two -week hospital hospital, followed by a further month of oral drugs.
“It was not an injury, more similar to a chronic disease. When I entered the hospital, I was looking forward to entering there because it was so painful. 3,000 m AND 5,000 m Personal Best of last summer as well as improving his time of 1500 meters.
“I had osteomielite. Mine was in the knee cap. It had not spread to the joint or the femur or anywhere else and I was quite lucky that it was quite localized.
“If you spread to the joint, you may have serious trouble – you shouldn’t amputate the leg – but the knee may never be the same again.”
The strange nature of what is afflicted the runner is emphasized by his coach of physio and strength and conditioning, in collaboration with the doctors who have edited Gruggs, now planning to make a research document on his case as there is no previous literature on this type of disorder in the sport of athletics.
