Ailing Joost returns home
22 May 2011
Former Springbok captain Joost van der Westhuizen is out of hospital following tests to verify a motor neurone disease.
Van der Westhuizen’s doctor, Jody Pearl, said in a statement that while the diagnosis of Motor Neurone Disease is unfortunately a possibility, it is not confirmed.
‘Joost has been discharged from hospital following multiple investigations and is currently on a trial of therapy with his condition being regularly reassessed,’ said Pearl. ‘We are doing everything within our power based on global best practice to rapidly establish Joost’s diagnosis, and to offer him the best possible therapy.
‘I am pleased to report that he is stable and in good spirits,’ added Pearl.
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22 May 2011, 13:43 pm
@cane(cane)-49: He was also hated by the Apartheid government for giving them the finger.
22 May 2011, 14:03 pm
@Desertfaffa(Desertfaffa)-23:Fully support you, his comments reflects his personal life and character.
22 May 2011, 14:41 pm
cane is my ultimate hero on this blogosphere thingymajiggy, if ever there were a blogger who deserves numero uno blogging status here on this board Mr. Cane is it.
As re desertfaffa’s input he has a definitive good point also regarding P’s and Q’s and all things rugby related …. So how or where to draw the line , a sterile chip and putt la di da atmosphere or else give a little take a little but always call a spade a spade.
22 May 2011, 14:54 pm
@crowbar(crowbar)-52:
His daily life and character….lol!!!!!!
I didn’t know a book had been written about me.
22 May 2011, 15:11 pm
looks like Rob Kearney of Ireland may be hooking up with stormers for rest of the campaign
22 May 2011, 15:12 pm
Bring in House M.D. He’ll know how to diagnose this!!
22 May 2011, 15:17 pm
@grant10(grant10)-55: It’d be a pity. Aplon is a better fullback than Jantjies and we have enough wings in Poolman, JJ, etc.
22 May 2011, 15:20 pm
@Michael(mikeybrass)-57: I agree
22 May 2011, 15:46 pm
All Blacks clear favourites to win Tri-Nations
All Blacks clear favourites to win Tri-Nations All Blacks Barometer – Who’s in the 30? Richie McCaw on verge of re-signing Haka goes hands-on for World Cup visitors Three-test Bledisloe Cup gets green light Tony Brown kicking down All Blacks’ door Halfback Andy Ellis looks likely for All Blacks All Blacks coach hits out at home-leavers All Blacks hooker Keven Mealamu staying in NZ
Bookmakers believe the All Blacks will win the Tri-Nations but remain even more confident about their World Cup chances.
The TAB released its betting option for this year’s Tri-Nations today, perching New Zealand as strong favourites to defend their title at $1.90. South Africa are paying $3 and Australia $4.
“The prices reflect the relative depths of talent for each team,” TAB rugby bookie Mark Stafford said.
“While some believe that Australia should be second favourites, they are not blessed with the depth of the other two.
“From here on in we will be keeping a close eye on injuries and expected return dates of key players.”
Stafford believed the outcome of the Tri-Nations would hinge on a clash in Port Elizabeth on August 20.
“The key game of the tournament for me, as it is every year, is the All Blacks’ match in South Africa. If New Zealand win that, they’ll win the Tri-Nations”
Stafford’s team feel even more sure that the All Blacks will break their World Cup duck when that tournament begins three weeks later.
That market has been open for several months and New Zealand have come down to $1.70 to win.
Australia are rated second-favourites at $5, followed by South Africa ($6), England ($9) and France ($15).
22 May 2011, 16:16 pm
I must say, and don’t take this as bad sportsmanship or anything, but firstly:
What will Kearney add that we do not already have? Fitting into a team setup, moves, calls and mode of play at this late stage of the comp doesn’t make sense, and,
secondly, why would we be interrested in assisting a team that we will in all likelyhood meet in the quarter finals, giving him valuable insight into moves, calls, playing strengths and weaknesses of players that will play a big part in the WC campaign?
22 May 2011, 16:19 pm
Bad idea to bring Kearney here it don’t help Stormers one little bit all it does is aid Ireland but it don’t do our campaign any favors at all and even less for our tight knit team camaraderie
22 May 2011, 16:21 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-61: Exactly what I was thinking.
22 May 2011, 16:29 pm
@Stormersboy(stormersboy)-62: yep .. snap
22 May 2011, 16:30 pm
3.Great White Shark said:
22 May 2011, 11:04 am I sincrely hope this doesn’t all turn out to be a media hype to kickstart his career.
If it is he has a seriously switched on agent. Hopfully it all goes away and he is declared 100% disease free.
You all having a go at Great White Shark for saying this ?? He was not running Joost down just mentioning a possibility, not a nice one, but think Shabir Sheik (sp) , dont think he would be so stupid as to pull this kind of stunt though because it would be unforgivable.
22 May 2011, 16:44 pm
@Treehugger(Treehugger)-64:
You and cane quite clearly passed Higher Grade English in your final year of school.
The rest probably went to a technical school to get their Matric…
22 May 2011, 16:47 pm
c’mon treehugger was a very poor attempt at sarcastic humor .. I know you sharkies like to stick together but that’s kinda going a little beyond the respectable borders of the chumming cage no?
Who in their dilly minds would try fake a life threatening disease for publicity stunt?
22 May 2011, 16:49 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-66:
One of your pals Shabir Shake Shake…
22 May 2011, 16:57 pm
trying to deflect your idiocy with another red herring … why don’t you just own up and excuse your dumb attempt at stupefied humor as an oversight of (in)humane respectability … obviously you still don’t quite know what that even means ….
BTW who’s Shabir Shakey Shake Shake …. sounds like another one of these over aggrandized dumb sharkievarkie frauds lurking about the shallow waters.
22 May 2011, 16:59 pm
I’ve just read on news 24 that the doc who initially diagnosed him has given him 3 years to live. That’s quite a shocker.
Let’s hope he’s wrong. Good luck fella.
22 May 2011, 17:16 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-68:
Shut it putu lips. The foulest mouth with the most disgusting and controversial slant on life should rather sit down and behave like a good little racist.
@Stormersboy(stormersboy)-69:
You kinda have already written the oke off bru.
All he could say was that “I might only have three years left…”
When asked about motor neuron disease, Joost says: “It’s a disease they don’t know much of. My condition has not been caused by stress and definitely not due to a hectic social life. It’s my nervous system disintegrating.
He has since visited Dr Jody Pearl – a neurologist from Johannesburg – to get a second opinion. She has discharged him from hospital, but is still waiting for a final diagnosis.
22 May 2011, 17:23 pm
“But, I will fight this thing. Even if it’s the last thing I do.”
Joost said this so don’t shoot the messenger but I did laugh.
22 May 2011, 18:08 pm
@Great White Shark(Predawn)-70: I haven’t written anyone off, I was referring to the part of the article (which you conveniently left out) where it quotes
“The doctor who examined him, have given him three years to live. ” (sic)
i know he’s gotten a second diagnosis, and as I said, i hope he’s wrong.
22 May 2011, 18:30 pm
I don’t wish the worst on Joost or anyone else for that matter. But Joost has led a charmed life recently and when one does that, there will always be skeptics out there and who can blame them. GWS did over-react but then that’s the nature of the site. Skop, as much as I admire your rugby stance and knowledge, I do think this is a case of the size 50 potjie calling the little kettle black.
22 May 2011, 19:21 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-59: I’m actually struggling to give a **** about who wins the tri-nations. I think it’ll be vaguely interesting from a World Cup warm up point of view, but who wins? Couldn’t give a rodent’s ******.
22 May 2011, 19:26 pm
All the best Joost @Stormersboy(stormersboy)-60:
He will have to learn to speak english first
22 May 2011, 19:27 pm
@zub(zub)-74:
I think 99.9999% of us do care
22 May 2011, 19:27 pm
@Great White Shark(Predawn)-71:
22 May 2011, 19:28 pm
@zub(zub)-74: r-e-c-t-u-m is banned? How rude!
22 May 2011, 20:30 pm
They want to make sure you don’t make an a rse out of yourself
22 May 2011, 20:48 pm
@Great White Shark(Predawn)-70:
who this schmuck calling people racists when he’s an outright self proclaimed white supremacist and then using terms like putulips and the rest… This twat is the ultimate in unashamed racist bigotry and behavior and is even proud of his anti black stance and his white supremacist ideology, plus his service to all white supremacist views everywhere through his riot police activity under the supremacist racist government along with his screwup conditioning which breeds the contempt of the screwup rationale which reckons his white Neanderthal race is the ‘master race’ on this planet, and your idiots here think because you can pussyfoot around with the protectionism of a measly few that condone and protect this garbage that its regarded as sacrosanct.
You are f’ng out your stupefied tree if you cannot see who is the absolute outright white supremacist racist here and who is not… @TASSIES(TASSIES)-73: you round the twist or what? .. this schmuck made a crack about Joost pulling a publicity stunt using his neural motor conditioning as a foil and then you start talking garbage about potjies and kettles… are you f’ng blind or confused or round the bend or what exactly?
This schmuck is an outright white supremacist racist and has even gone on record as being proud of the fact and you stupefied idiots turn a blind eye to this absolute racist garbage right here in your midst..
catch a f’ng wakeup pathetic screwup indoctrinated idiots less life catches a wake up for you… dumb deluded fool arse insulated idiots encapsulated.
22 May 2011, 20:59 pm
I wasn’t a huge fan of Joost the player, as I’ve posted here before, and certainly wasn’t fond of the cr@p he pulled in the public eye. But when you come down to it he, .like us all, is more than just that, he’s a dad, a son and a brother.
I wish him all the strength with his journey. All the best to his family who will be supporting him through this too.
23 May 2011, 10:18 am
@Great White Shark(Predawn)-3:
cynical piece’o'sh*te !
as if we didnt already know
23 May 2011, 10:23 am
@Great White Shark(Predawn)-19:
“Some of us might be controversial but don’t make it your crusade to judge.”
says the blogger who has the hide of a haemophiliac and stalks anyone whose opinion he disagrees with.
moron
23 May 2011, 10:26 am
@cane(cane)-37:
desperation
23 May 2011, 10:28 am
@cane(cane)-47:
a moment of sheer comical genius
24 May 2011, 17:21 pm
@Black Panther(Black Panther)-82:
*Yaaaaaaawn*
I love that I can get up your nose….you provide much comic relief.
25 May 2011, 06:10 am
@Great White Shark(Predawn)-86:
is that what you think ?
actually, youre alot dumber than I ever even assumed. Youre not simply a moron, but clearly a lobotomized one.
25 May 2011, 06:50 am
@Black Panther(Black Panther)-87:
Stop bleating.
25 May 2011, 06:55 am
@Treehugger(Treehugger)-64: This is a bit far fetched,won’t you say?
25 May 2011, 07:21 am
@Great White Shark(Predawn)-88:
oooh, a sheep joke
another one
gosh, they just cut so deep
if theres one jibe that stands above all others, thats it
man, you got me
youve truly caused significant mental scarring now
that hurts
it really does
how cruel
you win
no more, pleeeeease
*sob sob*
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