Best sports injury... ever. Well. Maybe not better than gout.
First they thought he had pink eye. But specialists eventually determined he had an infection stemming from surgery after he was beaned by a fastball in 2004 at Class A Myrtle Beach.
The pitch broke his cheek and the orbital bone around his right eye, and damaged his sinus cavity. Francoeur said an infection apparently developed beneath one of the two titanium plates implanted during the surgery.
As Francoeur explained it, he blew his nose hard enough to dislodge a piece of cartilage and release the infection. His eye almost immediately swelled shut.
He took three antibiotics, each for an hour. Three hours in the morning, three more at night, and spent most of the time watching movies or playing Xbox on the couch of the Duluth apartment he shared with Braves catcher Brian McCann.
"I was like an old geezer, sitting there with my IV bag at home," said Francoeur, known for his high energy level. "It was awful. I [usually] can't sit around for an hour. I'd play Xbox, watch movies — I've seen every movie Blockbuster on Sugarloaf has to offer. I'd walk in there with my IV tube at 10 in the morning, 'What 'cha got?'"
Francoeur was permitted to begin lifting weights and working out in mid-December. He was prescribed pills and "salt spray" to use the next time he has a stuffy nose, and told to avoid ever blowing it so hard again.
First they thought he had pink eye. But specialists eventually determined he had an infection stemming from surgery after he was beaned by a fastball in 2004 at Class A Myrtle Beach.
The pitch broke his cheek and the orbital bone around his right eye, and damaged his sinus cavity. Francoeur said an infection apparently developed beneath one of the two titanium plates implanted during the surgery.
As Francoeur explained it, he blew his nose hard enough to dislodge a piece of cartilage and release the infection. His eye almost immediately swelled shut.
He took three antibiotics, each for an hour. Three hours in the morning, three more at night, and spent most of the time watching movies or playing Xbox on the couch of the Duluth apartment he shared with Braves catcher Brian McCann.
"I was like an old geezer, sitting there with my IV bag at home," said Francoeur, known for his high energy level. "It was awful. I [usually] can't sit around for an hour. I'd play Xbox, watch movies — I've seen every movie Blockbuster on Sugarloaf has to offer. I'd walk in there with my IV tube at 10 in the morning, 'What 'cha got?'"
Francoeur was permitted to begin lifting weights and working out in mid-December. He was prescribed pills and "salt spray" to use the next time he has a stuffy nose, and told to avoid ever blowing it so hard again.
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