CARTERVILLE (WSIL) -- This week we took a trip down memory lane with the 2000 Harrisburg football team.
It's the 20th anniversary of them winning a state championship and one of those former players is doing big things after football. Braden Jones had hands that could haul in a football. Now those magical hands orchestrate surgery.
Jones is an orthopedic surgeon and lives in Colorado with his family. I asked how the current pandemicas has effected his hospital.
"It's a small hospital, only 17 beds, and a week or two ago half our hospital was filled with COVID patients and we are pretty rural so we didn't get hit by the first wave but this summer we are getting hit pretty hard," Jones said. "Not only does that impact the community and the people that are sick with COVID but the healthcare system as a whole so for instance if our hospital is full and someone breaks their hip, I can't take care of them, they have to go somewhere else. We've been through the stage of having to talk about cancelling surgeries so someone who's had a total knee surgery scheduled for six months and they've taken time off work and have their kids fly in town to take care of them, all of a sudden their surgery could get canceled, which for me as an orthopedic surgeon is sad."
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