The Dons skipper admits the lowest point came during his time at Inverness when a mammoth op was needed to relieve the pain
Aberdeen star Graeme Shinnie has enjoyed a top level career in football but admitted there were dark times when he feared Crohn’s Disease would deny him that opportunity.
Shinnie recalled: “The game where we beat Morton in the Scottish Cup was the final straw. The pain was too much for me. I had to have a bath almost every hour to relieve the pain. I went into hospital and within a matter of days I had a big op, I think it was 11 hours in the end. Shinnie didn’t realise the full extent of things until after he had come through his successful surgery. He said: “These were the small goals I was setting for myself with the doctors around me and it was the fear of, ‘I can’t even walk, how am I going to be able to run, especially the way I run around the football pitch?“Immediately after my op, my health was the most important thing. Football was never in my mind at that point.
He said: “I spent a couple of weeks in hospital and they diagnosed me with Crohn’s Disease and I was on a feeding tube from my nose into my stomach. It was tough as a 12-year-old boy being at school having a tube coming out of my nose.
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