Should We Be Worried?

by PSUWifey on May 28, 2010 12:06 AM EDT

Apparently Joe has been pretty sick lately, canceling one appearance earlier in May due to the flu and now not showing up at the last minute to a big dinner in Hershey due to an "intestinal virus". really wish they had just said it was a virus and not included the word intestinal there...it's something no one needs to know and only serves to elicit memories of Joe running off the sideline to "shit his drawers".

I know he always claims to be healthy as an ox, and attributes it to Greek genes, I guess, but at his age this stuff can be tough and sometimes fatal. I don't know many people as healthy as my 90 year old grandparents, but even with them I sometimes expect to get that phone call with tragic news any time. Yeah, I can be morbid, but that's what happens when one day you have a perfectly healthy 49 year old dad and the next day he's dead of a heart attack. I'm not an anxious person, just a realist. I pray Joe recovers and is just fine and coaches for ten more years and a National Championship.

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by smashtheguitar on May 28, 2010 12:38 AM EDT reply actions

At his age, yes there's probably a heightened reason for concern

but it’s not like something like this hasn’t happened before (I seem to remember him having the flu really bad a few years ago and getting so dehydrated he had to be hospitalized, with a similar panic erupting, and one major knee surgery and a hip replacement later he was back on the field, and back to his old self).

My gut tells me he’ll be fine. He’s got some of the best doctors around him, and he hasn’t lived to 83 and in very good health without some stellar genetics (not that genetics will help much to fight an infection all that much).

I don’t know if it’s because it’s Penn Live or what, but choosing the title “Ailing Joe Paterno” makes it sound like he’s terminal and at least to me implies more panic than should really be put into this story. I think he’s got a stomach bug. He may have very well been feeling fine one day, and sick and throwing up the next (I’m sure we’ve all had similar kinds of sicknesses, I know I have), so it’s understandable why he’d not want to show up to an event like this with a lot of people if he’s feeling like he’s going to puke his guts out every ten minutes, I know I sure as hell wouldn’t.

by dawsonPSU10 on May 28, 2010 1:39 AM EDT reply actions

I've been thinking this

But I can’t imagine, if it’s serious, that they’d be able to keep that under wraps. Hall and Big Red said he’s getting better; I’ll listen to them.

"Every player we have, someone-maybe a parent, a grandparent, someone-poured their soul into that young man. They are handing that young man off to us. They are giving us their treasure, and it's our job to make sure we give them back that young man intact and ready to face the world."

-J.V.Pa.

by psume06 on May 28, 2010 6:46 AM EDT reply actions

Maybe he's faking illness because he doesn't want to do the homework and sell the STEP plan.

by BMAN13 on May 28, 2010 7:12 AM EDT reply actions

I think he's running diversion....

I think he’s fine… I think he’s telling everyone he’s sick, missing these showings because he doesn’t like the attention and he’s making Alabama think he’s sick, but in reality, he’s in his evil(in a good way) lair setting up the plan to take down the mighty tide.

For the Glory of Old State

by PSULion29 on May 28, 2010 8:34 AM EDT reply actions

Insider info says....

that men in their old age (like me) and especially Joe tend to have a Wisconsin problem when it says intestinal flu or virus….he’ll recover….it’s just not all that comfortable a feeling….he’ll be fine.

by DerryPharmer on May 28, 2010 8:57 AM EDT reply actions