It was reported the next day that Thurston has been plagued with a Hernia injury which he received in a training session prior to Origin 2.
Antonio Pelle was arrested on June 12, 2009, in a hospital in Polistena (Calabria), recovering from a hernia surgery.
All but one of the babies were able to go home after a little while; Julian suffered a congenital hernia, but eventually recovered following an operation.
Local anesthesia is used in most surgeries, instead of general anesthesia, as the latter is unnecessary in most types of hernia surgeries, and the former is both safer and less expensive.
Topsider stood his entire career at Claiborne Farm and died there on October 18, 1992 as a result of a hernia in his diaphragm.