It Is Official - Peyton Had 2nd Neck Surgery. A 1 Level "Neck Fusion"

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Here's an article talking about the timeline. Explains why he waited until May to get the 1st surgery.

http://blogs.indystar.com/philb/2011/09/11/clearing-up-facts-on-manning-surgery-timeline/

Nice to see something straight from the source... lots of other articles are painfully vague. I'd like to think that if he had symptoms "a few weeks" before the 2nd surgery he hadn't yet developed terrible weakness, but who knows. I think that jibes with some other implications from other articles that implied a different nerve was compressed, and likely just with pain, for the 1st surgery. Also implies (though unclear) that the first surgery may have been joint only and no disc causing compression.

If anybody ever finds a reliable source implying the relative weakness of his right triceps after the 2nd surgery, or the recovery in strength since his 3d surgery, that would be important news. Of course, this will probably be kept mum as every other NFL team is eager to know this?