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That was February 4. But while surgery was set for February 15, the doctors told Weisbrod that there was only an 80 percent chance that he could undergo the percanterous disectomy, which is an arthroscopic surgery that uses a needle to drain the disc's excess fluid. Because the operation does not physically alter the back, there is usually a recovery period of only a week...
Fortunately for Weisbrod, the surgeons were able to do the operation, which they said went "extremely well...
...because "it took a little more digging than usual," according to Weisbrod, to reach the disk sandwiched between the sacrum and vertebrae, the aggravated tissue from the surgery extended Weisbrod's recovery period to more than three weeks...
...injury has also added to his academic pressures. Because Weisbrod had to take the valium provided for his back, he could not take three first-term finals. He has studied afternoons over the past few weeks to prepare for next week's make-up examinations...
...delayed recovery rendered Weisbrod--who had hoped to return for the Clarkson/St. Lawrence weekend February 22 and 23--unable to return for his senior class's final games in Bright Center. He is also out for this weekend's ECAC semifinal and final games, but says that there is a "90-percent chance" he will play in the next round of the NCAA's next weekend, if Harvard can go that...