Being cosseted that much is not good for you , certainly not in the long term. It can't help you as a person to literally not know how to do the most basic of taskshugonaut wrote:I think the answer is yes, he's more clueless than we are. On the other hand, maybe I'm being naive.CiaranIrl wrote:It's too much for me to take at face value not to be very suspicious. Another person called James Cronin just happened to be collecting a prescription for steroids the same day that a professional athlete with the same name was collecting something else, and then that same professional athlete thought nothing of what would be an insane dosage of two drugs for what he thought would be one antibiotic? I'm repeating myself here, but that's very weird.hugonaut wrote:
To be honest, it seems plausible to me and having read the report he's got a lot of evidence to back up his story. It's a big mistake from the pharmacy, because if you're giving the wrong drugs to a seriously ill and elderly patient rather than an absolute bull of a twenty-something you could have done a lot more damage than a rap across the knuckles from EPCR.
I was on something similar back in January. I had a bad dose of the flu in late December/early January which just kept on getting worse and worse and I was so run down that I eventually got pneumonia. I was put on a pretty massive and very long dose of antibiotics and a load of little steroid pills. I think it was something like 4no. every 4 hours for five days or something like that.
The EPCR verdict is right enough. It was an honest mistake, but he was careless and showed no sense of responsibility for what he was taking.
I mean, there's several of us here now that know what Prednesol is and what a dosage for that would look like (5, then 3 then 1 over three days). A professional athlete would be more clueless about it than we are, is it?
Reading the report, I was struck once again by how much of a bubble these guys live in, how cosseted they are. Free medical care [rather than a €60+ bill for a GP], instant access to your regular doctor, prescription emailed to the pharmacy for you to pick up [so you don't waste time in your 5-hour working day], cost of the prescription probably picked up by the organisation etc.
It's not their fault and it probably makes sense for the organisation, but there's a part of me that thinks that it's no wonder that so many of them have a hard time adjusting to their next occupation after their last rugby contract. They're institutionalised/infantilised.
Frankly these players need a healthy dose of reality and if they don't get it during their playing days they certainly will once they retire
I don't know much about this case but as others point out it could have been far worse if he was allergic to the stuff he has been accidental given
I tend to give the authorities the benefit of the doubt if they think it was an innocent mistake I'll go along with them