One of the offseason's weirdest stories rolled down the RSS-feed pike last month, when Jon Brockman — the hard-nosed, tough-rebounding, adult-onesie-wearing forward who'd come to the Houston Rockets as part of the draft-day deal that sent Samuel Dalembert to the Milwaukee Bucks — injured himself during a workout at the Toyota Center when the elastic band he was using to stretch out "apparently slipped off his foot and the recoil hit Brockman's right eye." At first blush, that sounds like some "Three Stooges"-level slapstick, and given Brockman's penchant for the goofy (seriously, check that adult onesie link again), it seemed like a random and funny turn of events, not unlike when that lady on "The Amazing Race" rocked herself with that watermelon . But then you read that Brockman had been hospitalized with the injury, and that he stayed in the hospital for three days, and it doesn't seem all that funny. And now, five weeks later, you read a report from Rich Myhre of the Everett, Wash., Herald — Brockman grew up in nearby Snohomish, Wash., and played his college ball at the University of Washington — about how Brockman's still seeing an eye specialist and has yet to join his Rockets teammates for training camp, and it seems downright scary: "He was in an unbelievable amount of pain," [Brockman's agent, Greg] Lawrence said by telephone on Thursday. "Everybody who knows Jon knows he can take a good amount of pain. He's not one to complain about anything. But that was pretty painful and uncomfortable for him. "I don't know if he ever completely lost his vision, but it was very blurry. He couldn't make anything out." Oddly enough, according to Lawrence, it's the eye that wasn't initially reported as having been directly affected that's holding up the 25-year-old forward's return to the game: Brockman, who has not been available for comment since the injury, has regained full vision in his right eye, "but the left eye has been slower to come around," Lawrence said. "That's the one (doctors) are waiting on getting the full picture on. But they know there was no structural damage and the retinas are still attached, so everything's fine. It's just healing, and there's really not much they can do to stimulate the healing process."
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