Why am I cutting the good JFP? Let's have some fun with this write-up by going through the mythological reasons why I'm not cutting him and debunking them one at a time. Maybe you'll find out at the very end why!
Myth No. 1: "Fairplay Quit For His Babes
Do we have a Jon in the house to answer this one? The answer: UM, NO! Fairplay did not "quit" because he missed Michelle and Piper. Yes, JFP does love his daughter (who, fyi, convinced JFP to root for Wentworth instead of Jeremy/Savage and Alecia instead of Scot/Jason -- Piper Dalton must be Wilbur's polar opposite). Yes, JFP did love his now-estranged wife. But JFP "quit" because he wanted to see them? Any answer other than "no" would be remiss, because it ignores JFP's severe facial injuries. As a medical student, I can attest that JFP most likely injured his maxillary nerve, and possibly all three branches of the trigeminal. He possibly suffered lesions across his palpebral fissure, with acute pain which radiated from his condyloid fossa to his nasal cavity. In total, this incident would've inflicted severe trauma, perhaps a mandibular fracture that would've affected his senses and would require proper rehabilitation.
Without analgesics, NSAIDs, and other pain-related medications, JFP most likely felt as though a truck had run over his face. Imagine fire crawling over your jaw, engulfing the bottom half like ignited gasoline. Imagine your teeth chattering and shivering, in eye-splitting pain that alternates between hot and cold. Now, imagine that most of your pain has dissipated into a dull ache -- and then a tiny Chinese man pummels your head into a boat, retraumatising old fractures and old injuries. Now, granted, I understand why Production didn't clear JFP's medications. Judging from his medical history and the nature of the injury, JFP's prescription probably included oxycodone, maybe tramadol, and other opioids. And the problem with opioids is... their potential for abuse. Without a doctor or a nurse supervising the intake, that line of analgesics can be readily abused for recreational usage, and considering Probst's own disdain for JFP and his prior drug usage, medical could easily reject the opioid prescriptions. Now, Production is not stupid and is not going to do anything as actionable as bar ALL of Fairplay's medication. They most likely requested that he bring ibuprofen and non-opioids, which aren't as effective but as far less likely to be addictive.
