After the injury occurred, he had to wait several days for the swelling to subside before doctors could perform surgery. He said the procedure took three hours and the surgeon had to go in through his mouth and through his eye to get at the damage. “The days leading up to surgery things kind of started to set in, the severity of what happened,” he said Saturday morning. “Thank God I had a lot of great people looking after me … At the end of the day, things could have been worse. It could have affected my eye. It could have affected my vision, long-term effects. In that way I feel very lucky and I’ll make a full recovery but a lot of that is thanks to the people who have taken such great care of me.”
Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times