Its my honor to introduce our next speaker, colonel francis oconnor, m. D. , whos the professor and chair of military and emergency medicine. If you never been there actually worth a visit here francis took me around and its really a great place where we have training, medical training for those are going to be serving in our country and providing service to the men and women who serve in a country. Hes also a leading voice for exertional illness, sickle cell trait. Hes leading a major study and internist and really sicklecell trait even better and he certainly has been a mentor and a friend to john and me and others at the ncaa and trying to guide us to go in the right direction. So thank you for coming here today. Well, thank you. Its an absolute honor to be here to honor derek sheely. As a father of three sons im still shaken. Ms. Sheely, listening to your words and your passion, i will not forget. I will not forget. Im going to be moving away from cardiac and we will talk about som
They yelled at him to get up. When he tried and they realized he could not they waited a few minutes then went to talk to him. Them a call the trainers over and he went back to practice. That is when i went to practice with trainers helping them off the field when he collapsed. Not sure what was told to you as far as him telling the coach the two coaches were aware he had a headache and took no precautions to ensure his safety. My thoughts are with the shealy family since august 2011. Were it not for the courage of brendan henderson, dereks teammate and author of the anonymous email we never would have learned what happened to our son. We still dont know everything that happened. We did learn derek went for medical aid at least four times over three days, four times and was told to get back onto the field every time. So dereks death was preventable. Preventable. In just six days, that preseason football practice, derek suffered so much brain trauma but he died. My beautiful, smart, 22y
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