A Career Ended By A Common Virus

Therion · Jul 3, 2014

I have completed a new interview with former Astros pitcher Mark Knudson. Imagine a common disease that over 50% of the population has ending your career. He lived it. Mark Knudson Interview.

As always, I love feedback.

Brewer Andy · Jul 3, 2014

What's this, a Milwaukee connection? Next you'll tell me you're interviewing Billy Spiers and Keith Ginter! Great read on a great guy!

AmishDave · Jul 3, 2014

Great read !

predatorkj · Jul 4, 2014

Cool write up. I've never even heard of cytomegalovirus. Odd how that turned out.

Therion · Jul 4, 2014

I had never heard of it either. I didn't put it in the article because Knudson will read it, but I found out that CMV is brought on from ******. So, yeah. The downfall of being an athlete hounded by skanks.

Brewer Andy · Jul 4, 2014

Therion said:
I had never heard of it either. I didn't put it in the article because Knudson will read it, but I found out that CMV is brought on from ******. So, yeah. The downfall of being an athlete hounded by skanks.

Well your blog isn't a medical blog so that's fine but not all ****** are of the genital variety. Almost everyone you know carries a ****** virus but the word certainly carries negative connotations

predatorkj · Jul 4, 2014

If I remember correctly, everyone carries ****** in their body and certain catalysts can trigger symptoms. No shame there.

r2d2 · Jul 4, 2014

Brewer Andy said:
Well your blog isn't a medical blog so that's fine but not all ****** are of the genital variety. Almost everyone you know carries a ****** virus but the word certainly carries negative connotations

The only relation is that they are from the same family, but same is chicken pox for example, so no thing wrong there.

The usual "bad ******" are 1 and 2. 3 is chicken pox and ****** zoster, 4 is Epstein Barr (mono), 5 is cytomegalovirus and so on. And not everyone carries ******, but if you get infected once, it is for life. For example, any of us that have had chicken pox, will never get it again, but we can get shingles as it is from the same virus and we will carry it all our lives.

Therion · Jul 4, 2014

The three websites I used to figure out what the heck that virus is said that it is like chicken pox or ****** and is typically transmitted by sexual contact. Hence why I said like ******. But, I didn't put it in the actual article, so it's all good

inceptus · Jul 5, 2014

Great article!

One minor (non-medical) piece of nitpicking: Charlie Kerfeld was not a starter for the 1986 Astros. He appeared in 61 games that year, all in relief.

Therion · Jul 5, 2014

Huh. Good catch. I'll fix it once my honeymoon is over (leaving in about two hours)

inceptus · Jul 5, 2014

Congratulations, and enjoy your honeymoon!

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