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Rehab is going well, he's running again and plans on doing a private workout next week where he'll run a 40. He still wants to rejoin the Giants which is probably a long shot but the good news is that he's back on his feet.
"It's not so much about me worrying about the time I run," Jones said Thursday, after one of his many workouts at Final Fitness in Harahan. "It's more about me just getting out there and showing the world that there is progress, the impossible can happen. Because at first, it was impossible for me to walk. That's what doctors said."
Jones drove his SUV head-on into an electrical pole. The pole cleaved through the front, snapping the front axle and shooting it through the floorboard like a spear. It scraped the flesh from Jones' left heel, shattered his lower leg and punctured his left thigh, gouging a large chunk of his quadriceps.
His lower left leg was crushed. The tibia and fibula were shattered in several places. Large sections of his skin were peeled from the leg, exposing muscles and ligaments. Veins and nerves were sliced, and a chunk of muscle hung from his fractured heel.
Also, Jones was suffering from compartment syndrome; the fractured bones in his lower leg were bleeding into their soft-tissue encasements, causing them to bloat. The increased pressure prevented blood from flowing into the muscles, threatening to kill them.
Seven doctors, assisted by medical staff, operated on Jones for more than six consecutive hours.
"It was a devastating injury, probably the worst injury that I ever recall anybody ever trying to come back from in the NFL, as far as fracture, soft-tissue injury," said Dr. Tim Finney, a noted New Orleans orthopedist who attended Jones' workout Thursday. Finney has been a team physician for the Saints since 1993.
"They've had guys come back from a tibia fracture, which he had, but not the soft-tissue injury that he had," Finney said. "He had major crush injury to his quad, his calf, the vascular injury and the nerve damage. Bone, muscle, blood vessel and nerve -- all those things were injured.
His lower left leg was crushed. The tibia and fibula were shattered in several places. Large sections of his skin were peeled from the leg, exposing muscles and ligaments. Veins and nerves were sliced, and a chunk of muscle hung from his fractured heel.
Also, Jones was suffering from compartment syndrome; the fractured bones in his lower leg were bleeding into their soft-tissue encasements, causing them to bloat. The increased pressure prevented blood from flowing into the muscles, threatening to kill them.
Seven doctors, assisted by medical staff, operated on Jones for more than six consecutive hours.
"It was a devastating injury, probably the worst injury that I ever recall anybody ever trying to come back from in the NFL, as far as fracture, soft-tissue injury," said Dr. Tim Finney, a noted New Orleans orthopedist who attended Jones' workout Thursday. Finney has been a team physician for the Saints since 1993.
"They've had guys come back from a tibia fracture, which he had, but not the soft-tissue injury that he had," Finney said. "He had major crush injury to his quad, his calf, the vascular injury and the nerve damage. Bone, muscle, blood vessel and nerve -- all those things were injured.
"There's been a big jump in my rehab," Jones said. "I definitely see that coming to training camp (in 2012), I should be a part of the Giants.
"From where I was back then, I was depressed. But now I feel so much better because I can see the progress, I can feel the progress since I'm actually running and up on my feet and doing things that a normal athlete would do, or doing the things that I used to do. I'm looking forward to seeing how I'll be in six months."
"From where I was back then, I was depressed. But now I feel so much better because I can see the progress, I can feel the progress since I'm actually running and up on my feet and doing things that a normal athlete would do, or doing the things that I used to do. I'm looking forward to seeing how I'll be in six months."
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