Lexie Farquhar is happy her husband doesn’t remember.
Not any of the pitches he threw that day, not the vomiting, not the fainting, not anything. White Sox pitcher Danny Farquhar
caused by a ruptured aneurysm during a game against the Astros on April 20, an injury that causes death about 40 percent of the time and causes serious disability in about 60 percent of survivors.
“I don’t really want him to really remember the first parts of it,” Lexie told ABC in the couple’s first interview since the incident.
The interview itself makes this a positive story. Farquhar required two surgeries in the day following the incident, including one procedure in which his skull was fractured, with two drains inserted to ease the pressure of fluid building in his brain. He spent the next 17 days in the ICU, but seems to be making a relatively quick recovery.
He’ll throw the first pitch prior to Chicago’s game against the Brewers on Friday — his first time throwing since the injury — and has reportedly worked out about eight times, though he can’t lift the same weights as before.
“Obviously, all the prayers that everybody had for me, you know, had some sort of effect,” Farquhar said. “And God has a plan for me, I just don’t know what it is yet.”
Farquhar plans to pitch again — he was surprised he couldn’t return to the team after coming out of the hospital — but still has a while before a return will be in order. There’s no timetable in place, but the start of next season seems to be a possibility. He’ll start throwing on Saturday.
Given the circumstance, that’s a miracle in and of itself.
