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...well. You can find O'Neil, who left Oxy on disability a few years ago, on a golf course, clad in picture-perfect golden-years attire: a black Izod shirt with white shorts, faux-alligator-skin cleats, Ray-Bans, a gold shamrock hanging from a gold chain on his neck and a black baseball cap. But O'Neil's retirement outlook is growing darker every day. He once made a six-figure salary, but the 63-year-old is fairly certain that his savings won't be able to sustain him for very much longer. He has some...
...nervous scrutiny of my peers stopped at this point, and I started wondering just how different my recruiting experiences were from the size-18 neck guy I was waiting with...
...itself. "It is very unusual today to have three healthy young people die in a car crash," says Bhatia, 36. "They were hit with an amazing amount of force." Regarding Wilhite's internal decapitation, Bhatia says, "Think about the weekly collisions in the National Football League and that neck injuries are relatively rare. That tells you how hard they were hit. I have never seen a car so destroyed." What saved Wilhite, says Bhatia, is the fact that he is a high-level athlete and that "his neck muscles were strong enough to hold his head in place even after...
...collar. At the hospital, doctors considered operating immediately to fuse Wilhite's head back onto his spine, but that was impossible because of Wilhite's collapsed lungs and brain swelling. Instead, Bhatia and Dr. Doug Kiester attached a Frankenstein-like steel halo to Wilhite's head to keep his neck in alignment. Six days after the accident, Bhatia led a surgical team of 30 that spent five hours placing a titanium plate at the back of Wilhite's neck and connecting it to his skull and C3 vertebra with rods and screws. "Everything had to go perfectly," says Bhatia. Asked...
Today, the hitter, who was blessed with 20/15 vision before the accident, says, "My eyes are starting to sync up and track." To look around, Wilhite must turn his upper body, not his neck. "Will he have a 100% recovery?" asks Bhatia. "No, he will never be back to where he was. It will take his body up to 12 to 18 months to heal and recover." Each one of his injuries - broken ribs, collapsed lungs, broken right shoulder blade (his throwing arm), his neck and brain - "require a lot of energy to heal. It is like having...