A former soccer participant for Louisiana State College (LSU), has determined to discuss his restoration from a mind tumor and why he’s suing each his establishment and the hospital that operated on him. In an unique sitdown interview with Michael Strahan on “GMA,” Gregory Brooks, Jr., and his father Gregory Brooks, Sr., spoke concerning the ordeal that began years in the past on the college.
Brooks, Jr., was a security for the LSU Tigers soccer staff in August 2023 when he began to expertise troubling signs. Throughout soccer practices, he skilled nausea, dizziness and vomiting. After passing out after which vomiting in entrance of coaches and different gamers, he alleges that an LSU athletic coach instructed him that he had vertigo and was cleared to observe.
In keeping with Brooks, Jr, he skilled the identical signs each day and after 39 days, the staff made an appointment with a neurologist the place he was recognized with a mind tumor and an emergency surgical procedure needed to be carried out.
All of that is alleged in a lawsuit that Brooks, Jr. has filed claiming negligence towards LSU and Our Girl of the Lake Regional Medical Heart in Baton Rouge. In keeping with Brooks, Jr., the surgeon who carried out the surgical procedure wasn’t certified to do this specific surgical procedure; Brooks, Jr. suffered a number of strokes throughout surgical procedure and was left with everlasting accidents post-surgery. Moreover, Brooks, Jr.’s father — Gregory Brooks, Sr. — alleges that the varsity didn’t inform him of his son’s situation till a day earlier than he was scheduled to have the emergency process.
“The one name that I obtained was, ‘I would like you to get right here. Your son is having emergency surgical procedure tomorrow morning,’” mentioned Brooks, Sr., who was puzzled by this; he assumed that his son being at LSU meant he would obtain the very best care and consideration potential. Brooks, Jr. has since been declared cancer-free after rounds of chemotherapy and radiation therapy however needed to relearn the right way to converse, write and eat.
Brooks, Sr. claims that the household hasn’t heard from the varsity or teaching employees since late 2023.
Whereas LSU is unable to touch upon pending litigation, they did launch an announcement when the lawsuit was filed in August 2024 that reads, partially: “Whereas LSU can not touch upon ongoing litigation, Greg Brooks stays in our ideas and prayers as he continues to work by means of the rehabilitation course of.” The hospital additionally launched an announcement of help for Brooks, Jr. restoration and for his or her medical employees, whereas acknowledging they’re unable to talk on pending litigation.
Brooks, Jr. has shared that he’ll cope with the playing cards that he’s dealt and finally desires younger athletes going by means of one thing to grasp that they should advocate for themselves.
“I simply need younger athletes in the identical spot I used to be, if one thing is hurting, inform them. And in the event that they don’t do something about it, go get your second opinion. As a result of if I might have recognized that, I wouldn’t be the best way I’m proper now.”
