Dodgers Star Mookie Betts Misplaced 25 Lbs. from Thriller Sickness

Mookie Betts is coping with a thriller sickness.

On March 23, the Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop spoke to reporters at Dodger Stadium and detailed his latest well being troubles after lacking the primary three season-opening video games. The 32-year-old revealed he’s been vomiting and unable to eat, ensuing ina 25-lb. weight reduction.

“I’m not precisely positive what it’s. I don’t assume anyone actually is aware of,” he mentioned. “You go weigh your self and also you weigh 150 lbs. and earlier than I left spring [training] I used to be 175. My abdomen is, I assume, actually aggravated. So it’s laborious to simply not eat, particularly as a result of you’ll be able to’t come to work and simply not eat.”

“I’m practising all day and my physique’s simply type of consuming itself,” Betts defined. “Actually each time I gas my physique, I throw it up, and I don’t know what to do about it.”

Betts mentioned his signs started almost two weeks in the past, and he’s “scared to eat” due to how a lot he’s thrown up. The baseball professional famous that docs have even been struggling to diagnose him as a result of the whole lot seems regular.

“My vitals, the whole lot’s come again clear. Blood checks have come again actually clear,” he mentioned. “I’m wholesome.”

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Medical doctors put him on treatment, and he expects to endure further and extra intensive testing. For now, he’s merely not consuming and hopes to get again on the sector regardless.

“It is simply laborious to fathom not consuming and going to play a sport,” he mentioned. “So it seems to be like I am simply going to be gentle for a little bit bit. Perhaps I play uphill a little bit bit for the start of the season. However no, I simply wish to play, man. I am bored with sitting, bored with throwing up, bored with doing all this. I actually simply wish to play.”

Betts additionally admitted that coping with his unexplained abdomen points is much more irritating than recovering from his damaged hand final yr, explaining that his present scenario is simply “so sensitive.”

“I imply, I really feel nice,” he instructed reporters. “Like, my physique feels nice. I have been in a position to work out. I have been in a position to do just about the whole lot however eat, which is unusual. So, the signs have type of gone away, I simply have to determine the way to get my abdomen to type of relax.”