{"id":1086,"date":"2021-05-18T19:48:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T19:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-583903-1890774.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2021-09-03T14:53:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T18:53:23","slug":"teen-returns-to-football-field-after-stroke-heart-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/2021\/05\/18\/teen-returns-to-football-field-after-stroke-heart-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Returns to Football Field After Stroke, Heart Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A comeback story is all about defying the odds. In Carson Cathey\u2019s case, he did that twice.<\/p>\n<p>The 16-year-old is a defensive tackle on his high school football team, and earlier this year he suffered a stroke. It\u2019s something that happens to just 0.006% of kids and teens, and Cathey didn\u2019t have a single risk factor.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors were able to stop the stroke, but couldn\u2019t find the cause of it. It meant that Cathey was going to be sent home with blood thinners, his football career over and his life changed forever. But, as Denver7 tells it, there was <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedenverchannel.com\/news\/national\/teens-comeback-story-highlights-how-identifying-strokes-early-can-make-all-the-difference\">one last specialist<\/a><\/strong> to consult with.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Joshua Murphy had, like Cathey, had a stroke at a young age. And Murphy thought that Cathey\u2019s case could be similar to his own: a blood clot travelling through a hole in his heart to his brain.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy was right. And four weeks after repairing the hole in Carson\u2019s heart, the 16-year-old was back on the football field. His coach asked him to address the team before his first-game back, and Carson didn\u2019t disappoint. \u201cYou have to make every second on your field count,\u201d he told his teammates, \u201cbecause you don\u2019t know when it\u2019s your last second.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A comeback story is all about defying the odds. In Carson Cathey\u2019s case, he did that twice. The 16-year-old is a defensive tackle on his high school football team, and earlier this year he suffered a stroke. It\u2019s something that happens to just 0.006% of kids and teens, and Cathey didn\u2019t have a single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3486,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions\/3486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}