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Date: | Wed, 8 Jul 1992 09:37:04 -0400 |
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From the Minneapolis Star Tribune (Sports: faces and places) this morning:
Gophers' Magnusson suffers freak injury
Steve Magnusson, a freshman <actually he'll be a soph this year> hockey
center for the Gophers, is recovering from surgery after suffering a freak
injury while camping last week. Magnusson was in a large group of college
students camping near Detroit Lakes, Minn., during an annual country music
festival.
"I had an ax in my hand and I was setting up camp," Magnusson said.
"Somebody threw me a football, and when I reached for it, I stepped in a hole
and fell."
Because he had the ax in his other hand, Magnusson said he didn't reach
out to break his fall, and a small branch penetrated his left ear. He said both
his hearing and his equilibrium were "fouled up" and he was treated at a near-
by hospital emergency room.
When he returned home to Anoka, Magnusson's doctor said the stick
apparently punctured his eardrum and dislodged the three small bones that
govern equilibrium, and called for immediate surgery. Magnusson said doctors
told him it will take some time to determine how fully he will recover the
hearing in his left ear and his full balance.
....end material from Strib.....
My guess is that he will be back to normal by the time the Gopher season
starts, unless there is some complication from the surgery.
I sure wish that the Gopphers would get some GOOD news one of these days!!
-Carol
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