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Bumping this up, haven't seen this elsewhere. Aaron Portzline of The Athletic wrote a fantastic piece on Odelein last week. He was the writer who reported Odelein's serious condition in a tweet back in March after Lyle's wife Laurel contacted them.
In the piece, Portzline noted that Montreal was in Pittsburgh right after his tweet was posted. Muller and JJD, who played with Odelein, basically went hospital to hospital trying to find him (the tweet said he was in a Pittsburgh hospital but did not identify which one, as per family wishes), and eventually located him. Muller talked about seeing him in his state and weeping at his bedside.
At the time, all anyone knew was that Odelein was in bad shape. Portzline's article chronicled the entirety of the story. He had sepsis and a blood infection, which led to organ failure and he was placed into a medically induced coma. He eventually want through an unprecedented triple transplant (aortic valve, then liver, then kidney, over a 24-hour period). He survived that, but awoke 3 weeks after the surgery with a nerve disease that left him paralyzed. As he recovered he eventually got motion back, and he went from rehab to home in July, then working with therapists to go from wheelchair to walker to walking on his own.
Needless to say, Odelein's presence at the home opener to celebrate the 1993 Cup team is nothing short of miraculous.
A fabulous story, and I know I pump up The Athletic by times but stuff like this by itself is worth the 3-4$ a month for a subscription.
In the piece, Portzline noted that Montreal was in Pittsburgh right after his tweet was posted. Muller and JJD, who played with Odelein, basically went hospital to hospital trying to find him (the tweet said he was in a Pittsburgh hospital but did not identify which one, as per family wishes), and eventually located him. Muller talked about seeing him in his state and weeping at his bedside.
At the time, all anyone knew was that Odelein was in bad shape. Portzline's article chronicled the entirety of the story. He had sepsis and a blood infection, which led to organ failure and he was placed into a medically induced coma. He eventually want through an unprecedented triple transplant (aortic valve, then liver, then kidney, over a 24-hour period). He survived that, but awoke 3 weeks after the surgery with a nerve disease that left him paralyzed. As he recovered he eventually got motion back, and he went from rehab to home in July, then working with therapists to go from wheelchair to walker to walking on his own.
Needless to say, Odelein's presence at the home opener to celebrate the 1993 Cup team is nothing short of miraculous.
A fabulous story, and I know I pump up The Athletic by times but stuff like this by itself is worth the 3-4$ a month for a subscription.
