A series of operations on his upper right arm, to battle an infection that threatened not only his fledgling career, but the limb itself, has left him reflecting on how quickly things can change.
The towering flanker (18) only just got out of hospital last Saturday with around 80 staples in his arm after a haematoma that developed some time after the home cup clash against Leinster A on 8 December left his arm grotesquely swollen.
