Wow. Hope for the best. Terrible situation. You wonder how one can be so mentally tough to compete at that level of a sport and then come crashing down.
Achieve your life’s goal, don’t have a greater goal to replace it.
1988, I was playing on the U21 USA east rugby side. We played u21 Canada. The pitch was known to be landing spot of water fowl, mostly geese.
A guy on the Canadian club had a pretty good scrape/cut on his thigh. The Canadian club left town about 3 hours after the match when the after match meal ended. The guy did not clean abrasion /cut until the get back to Torronto (from Albany, NY). The guys leg was amputated by Friday due to infection. What a eye oppener; unimaginable.