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Its a super strong anti-inflammatory but it worked like a painkiller. there were times i couldnt practice the whole season, would be in a walking boot or crutches, trying to get in a stadium with a boot on and take a shot of toridol and vicodin, and i would be ready to play. >> so was it the doctors giving you the stuff in the locker room? or who was doling it out? >> the doctors and trainers typically gave out the oral painkillers, and then the doctors gave the shots. >> trainers, without a med...

>> maybe my first year, i didnt take it the whole year. but the majority of my career i would say ten out of 11 years, i was taking toridol. >> and what would that do for you? >> it is almost like a wonder drug. a super-strong anti-inflammatory. there were times i couldnt practice the whole season, being in a walking boot or crutches, trying to get in a stadium, take a shot of toridol and vicodin, and i would be ready to play. >> so was it the doctors giving you the stuff in the locker room? >> ...

>> maybe my first year, i didnt take it the whole year. but the majority of my career i would say ten out of 11 years, i was taking toridol. >> and what would that do for you? >> it is almost like a wonder drug. a super-strong anti-inflammatory. there were times i couldnt practice the whole season, being in a walking boot or crutches, trying to get in a stadium, take a shot of toridol and vicodin, and i would be ready to play. >> so was it the doctors giving you the stuff in the locker room? >> ...

Was what jimmy hendrix played with his teeth. he put together a museum of jimmy hendrix and wanted that guitar. how is that for trivia? >> pretty good. >> my talk thing and then -- >> maybe it was the same night thats what the problem was. >> thats interesting. i didnt know that. >> yeah. >> willie, im worried about mike allen. >> mike allen, chief white house correspondent for politico. hes here in new york. >> ive never been better. >> walking boot. >> what happened? treadmill injury. >> it ha...

22 minutes after the hour now. >> high-profile quarterbacks are making headlines off the field. gerald greenburg is here with more on todays bleacher report. tell us about this. >> college football season, saturdays, what its all about. two-time defending national champs may have a reason to be concerned, a.j. mccaron, a walking boot for a broken toe. winning back-to-back national titles. all eyes on suspended texas a & m quarterback johnny

To the lungs, pulmonary embolism can happen to anybody and something people are reminded of. its a clot that sort of develops in the deep veins, carol, in your legs. this is something you could feel. if you feel the clots on the surface that is not this. this is the deep veins. get a clot around the valve of the veins and it breaks off and has a long way to travel through the vascularture of the entire body. it could block a blood vessel in the lung and someone might have chest pain and shortnes...

From are the vaps of the lower leg. this is important. when you talk about the deep veins of the lower leg, these are not veins you can necessarily feel. take a look in blue there. that is the valve around one of these deep veins. you see a clot starting to form over there. after some time that clot could essentially break off and start to travel throughout the entire body and specifically it goes through the blood system and lands up in the lungs. that is what a pulmonary embolism it. blocks on...

Beginning to take its toll on the 81-year-old. he is being treated for normal side effects from his ongoing cancer therapy. he is wearing a walking boot while recovering from a slight tear in his achilles tendon. less than two weeks after undergoing surgery to remove a tumor in july, mccain returned to the senate floor greeted by the deafening applause of his colleagues. before delivering a stinging critique of the senates fierce partisan divide. >> lets trust each other. lets return to regular ...