NASCAR reporter Marty Smith just posted a great article about Brian Vickers on ESPN.com. It gives some good insight to Vickers’ medical situation and the events leading up to his hospitalization last month. Vickers has a unique perspective on the whole situation which seems to be influenced by his experiences with the deaths of close friends Adam Petty and Ricky Hendrick. Doctors haven’t diagnosed what caused his blood clots to form so although Vickers’ said he be back by the 2011 Daytona 500, no timetable has been set…no mention of Erin Bates either.
Vickers can’t fully move on. His doctors still don’t know what caused the blood clots, which began in his legs and moved to his lungs. They’ve analyzed and reanalyzed the activities that led up to the clotting — the fire at Texas Motor Speedway after the blown tire, running two races at Talladega in one day, long flights.
“It’s funny, I go to the hospital in Washington and it’s all business,” Vickers said. “They ask every question they have to ask, every procedure, doesn’t matter whether they think they know the answer to it. They’re like, ‘Were you in a car accident? Have you been around smoke? Have you been in a car for a long period of time? Have you been on long flights?’ I was like, ‘Yes!’ They were like, ‘To which one?’ I said, ‘All of them.’ “
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