The high school football player in Florida who collapsed
during a game on Friday was “completely brain dead” and was taken off life
support on Monday, according to local reports.
Jacquez Welch’s organs will be donated, The Tampa Bay Times
reported, adding that his mother said doctors told her seven lives would be
saved by her son.
Bay News 9 reported that Welch’s mother, Marcia Nelson,
provided the update that her son was "completely brain dead" at a
gathering on Monday evening.
Welch, a senior football captain at Northeast High School in
St. Petersburg, didn’t get up after a tackle during Friday night’s game against
Seminole Osceola High School. His mom was at the game.
"It was a group tackle. Everybody got up. He got up a
little slow and he didn't get back up," she told the television station.
Paramedics rushed an unresponsive Welch to the hospital.
Once there, doctors discovered the 17-year-old was suffering from severe
bleeding on the brain from a preexisting condition, coach Jeremy Frioud said,
according to the newspaper.
Doctors reportedly said Welch had a brain arteriovenous
malformation, a rare tangle of abnormal blood vessels connecting arteries and
veins, according to the Mayo Clinic.
A brain AVM may not cause any symptoms until it ruptures,
but some signs can include seizures, headache or pain in one area of the head,
muscle weakness or numbness in one part of the body, vision loss, severe
unsteadiness and difficulty speaking.
Frioud described Welch as “an incredible kid.” He was a star
athlete and a good student, and had already been recruited, receiving his first
offer from Concordia University in St. Paul, Minn., the newspaper reported.
Coach Jeremy Frioud: “He left this world doing what he loved
more than anything else."
https://www.foxnews.com/health/florida-high-school-football-player-completely-brain-dead-after-collapsing-during-game-to-be-taken-off-life-support-reports
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