[Vision2020] Update on Greer

[thansen@moscow.com]

UI's Greer leaves hospital
by Jim Meehan, Spokane Spokesman-Review

University of Idaho football player Keith Greer is going home.

Greer was released from Harborview Medical Center on Tuesday after a month in 
the Seattle hospital. Greer developed Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome 
following surgery on Aug. 31 to repair his broken right leg.

"He's doing very well," Vandals coach Tom Cable said.
"He's up and around, he's a little slow in terms of motor skills, but they 
expect a 100 percent full recovery. That's just great news."

Greer will return to the family home in Santa Ana, Calif., to continue 
recuperating. The sophomore fullback withdrew from school because of the 
extended hospital stay, but he plans to return to UI in January.

He also hopes to continue his playing career.

"He wants to play," Cable said. "You have to know Keith.  He looks at this as a 
bad deal, get a little rehab at home, get his lungs straightened up and come 
back in January and get into (off-season) mat drills."

Greer, 19, broke his tibia and fibula against Washington State on Aug. 30. 
Following surgery, he was in the intensive care unit for more than three weeks, 
including roughly 10 days in critical condition. He was taken out of the ICU 
last Tuesday.

Greer had three catches for 20 yards before he was injured in the season opener 
against
WSU.

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