Gabe Higginbottom (Supply: Bartlett Excessive Faculty)
Highschool officers in Tennessee mentioned {that a} pupil and cross nation runner suffered a coronary heart assault following a race in Florida on Saturday, September 10.
Gabe Higginbottom, 17, a junior at Bartlett Excessive Faculty in Tennessee, participated in a cross-country race in Pensacola, Florida.
In keeping with a Fb put up, Gabe didn’t bounce again following the race.
“Yesterday after the Pensacola race he didn’t bounce again,” based on a put up revealed within the Bartlett Excessive Faculty Boys Cross Nation Facebook group.
“After an hour he was taken by a number of the dad’s and coach to the medical tent. His vitals have been good. Out of abundance of warning the physician on web site mentioned he ought to go to the hospital. On the hospital his vitals have been good till they weren’t. He was then airlifted along with his mother to Gainesville Florida for additional exams. Right now he had surgical procedure and it went effectively. Please pray for for this household and our group,” the put up concluded.
The Bartlett Metropolis Colleges additionally launched a statement relating to the incident. In keeping with the college, docs discovered two blood clots after they carried out a 3-hour surgical procedure.
“On September tenth, after a race in Pensacola, FL, one in all Bartlett Excessive Faculty’s Cross-Nation runners suffered a coronary heart assault. Gabe Higginbottom, 17, a junior at Bartlett Excessive Faculty was despatched to Ascension Sacred Coronary heart Pensacola Hospital on the recommendation of the on-staff medical group. Sacred Coronary heart carried out a CAT scan which revealed additional motion wanted to be taken.”
“Gabe was transported to the UF Shands Coronary heart and Vascular Hospital in Gainesville, FL by helicopter that evening. In Gainesville, they discovered his proper artery was fully blocked. The docs carried out an angioplasty to insert a balloon to open up that artery. Later, they carried out a 3-hour surgical procedure inserting two stents and located two blood clots.”
“Cross Nation coach, Kris Harman, and Gabe’s mom, Edrika, stay by Gabe’s facet, as he’s presently recovering on the UF Shands in Gainesville, FL. A Go Fund Me web page has been arrange by the Cross Nation Booster Membership. The cash raised will likely be used to offset any medical payments. No quantity is just too small. Please pray for Gabe and his household as he begins the rehab course of,” the post concluded.
Extra from Kentucky.com:
Kris Harman, a group coach, instructed WREG one thing simply wasn’t proper with Gabe after competing.
“He began complaining about his chest hurting and saved complaining and we went to the coach’s tent…everyone initially thinks it’s sizzling, it’s warmth exhaustion so give him ice however he’s nonetheless complaining about his chest,” Harman instructed the outlet.
Harman instructed WREG that docs discovered Gabe had a blocked artery and carried out a process to repair it. “Now, they’re simply making an attempt to determine what brought about it,” Harman instructed the outlet.
Phil Clark, the athletic coordinator at Bartlett Metropolis Colleges, instructed the Memphis Industrial Attraction that docs mentioned the center assault wasn’t warmth associated and that they don’t know what brought about it. “The physician on the hospital he’s at, he instructed our monitor coach he had seen one (different) occasion like this in his 11 years down there,” Clark mentioned, the outlet reported.
He mentioned Gabe is working towards restoration.
“They’re going to get him up and get him strolling down the hallway this morning they usually assume all the pieces goes to be positive,” Clark mentioned Tuesday, Sept. 13, based on the Industrial Attraction. “He’s a powerful, wholesome younger man, which absolutely helped on this state of affairs.”
