Just some straight up great baseball news

[piney61]

Rocco Baldelli does NOT have mitochondrial disorder -- This has been reported on WJAR 10 in Providence and WLNE 6 in Providence. I just wanted to pass along what I heard on the local affiliates.

GREAT NEWS FOR ROCCO BALDELLI. A VISIT TO THE CLEVELAND CLINIC LAST WEEK REVEALED THAT DOCTORS HAD MISDIAGNOSED HIS ILLNESS

Comments

[xhereonearthx]

this is such excellent news that it's something treatable! hopefully he gets some good care and is good as new soon. even if he did go to hendricken.

[piney61]

Hendricken be damned, I can make exceptions :)

[xhereonearthx]

word. i can totally forgive the hendricken-ness in cases of the dude otherwise seeming pretty damn awesome. i mean, i cheer for jimmy baron don't i?

[piney61]

I forgive Hendricken boys if they're chill enough. Not many are though. I know a lot of douchebag ones...but they mostly come from the South County area.

[piney61]

You're not a huge nerd. It was very informative and I appreciate your insights on it

[piney61]

Yeah americanleaguer said that. I'm guessing it's likely muscle related too, just by the guess of his symptoms.

[littlestclouds]

Aw, that's great news.

[piney61]

It made me happy. I hope wherever he ends up, he does well and kicks ass.

[americanleaguer]

There's not much to explain, because there are like a zillion (well, not that many, but you know) different types of channelopathies. 'Channelopathy' isn't really a disease by itself so much as a function of other, varied diseases, or a descriptor for one of many slightly different presentations (affecting various different ion channels).

So saying that Rocco has 'channelopathy' isn't totally helpful. It's like... it's like saying he has an infection. OK, awesome: what kind of infection? and what caused it? and is it complicated and affecting something else? Some channelopathies are treatable with simple diet changes, IIRC, and some are much more difficult to manage.

[piney61]

Alright, thanks for the insight on it. I looked it up a little bit after making this entry. I wonder what type he does have though.

[ayrdaomei]

And of course, the first thing I thought was about all those poor kids with mito that looked up to him. Definitely good news for him that his condition is treatable (unless of course, this second diagnosis is actually the misdiagnosis) but he seemed to have become quite the inspirational figure for those children.

[piney61]

Yeah I do feel for the kids. There was a little clarification in which Rocco says He wasn't misdiagnosed and this is just an updated diagnosis. I dunno if that'll change anything however.

[piney61]

Err pertaining to the kids and all. That last sentence made little sense.