Simon White back at training after overcoming a broken neck. Picture: Hamish Blair Source: CAS Hamish Blair / News Limited
SIMON White doesn't like to think about what might have happened had a fractured vertebrae in his neck remained undetected and he played for Carlton just week a week later.<image-web-group channel="Web" group="SpecialElement"> <image-web dtxInsert="Gallery Portrait (366x488)" fileref="/NewsLimited/Content/MET/Images/NWK/Sport/AFL/Cropped/2013-11-27/NEWSMMGLPICT000019270519-ksa-GalleryPortrait366x488-366x488@Web-HeraldSun.jpg?uuid=1e6075c2-5802-11e3-8974-69a7d7a3124c" height="488" id="GalleryPortrait366x488" tmx="366 488 366 488" width="366" xtransform="1 0 0 1 0 0"></image-web> <image-web-caption> <p>Simon White in a neck brace. Source: Twitter</p> </image-web-caption> </image-web-group>
In a bizarre chain of events, the Blues defender trained and complete a pilates session only a few days after suffering a direct hit to his head while playing for the Blues' VFL affiliate side Northern Bullants in July.
He had taken possession of the ball and was on his feet with his head lowered to avoid a Box Hill Hawk tackler when he heard a crack after receiving a bump to the head.
"It was just a bit of a wet day and I sort of jumped up to grab the ball and I saw a guy coming at me and I thought I could side step him and go under his arm and I don't know whether I slipped or misjudged him but I had my head down and he hit me straight on top of the head," he said.
"At that stage it just felt like my neck had cracked and I didn't think anything of it."
Amazingly White, who had a free kicked awarded against him for holding the ball, had little discomfort at the time and even a couple of days later experienced only what he described as a stiff neck.
In an indirect way Blues coach Mick Malthouse saved him from what could have been a disastrous outcome when he went to the bench after White came from the ground and said don't put him back as he'd be playing for Carlton against Gold Coast the following Saturday.
"It was on the Saturday and I didn't think much of it and on Sunday I got it checked by the doctor again and he was reasonably happy with it and at the start thought it was just whip lash," White said.
"I trained on Monday and they had another look at it on the Tuesday and I was still moving fine but the doc said he wouldn't mind having a look at it and I went down and had a scan.
"I went off and did pilates and after that I had about eight missed calls and there were a couple of messages from the doc who told me to ring him urgently."
A neurosurgeon told him he'd have to wear a cervical brace, from his neck to his waist, for the next two months after explaining that the scan had revealed the C3 vertebra was fractured three quarters of the way through.
Simon White is helped off the ground after hurting his knee against Werribee. Source: News Limited
White, who says he'll be available for the NAB Cup, said he definitely would have played, risking serious spinal cord damage, if hadn't been ordered to have the scan.
"It was all a bit of a shock and I was fairly lucky in the end," he said.
"The brace wasn't terribly comfortable and I was in it nearly all day except when Í took it off to have a shower."
White wasn't allowed to drive for the two months he wore the brace and had to rely on teammate and housemate Michael Jamison to chauffeur him and cook dinner.
The most worrying aspect for White was knowing that he was coming out of contract but Malthouse quickly told him that he would be offered a new contract for 2014.
"When you've just come out of a 12 month contract you think you might be in a bit of trouble here," he said.
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