New Orleans Saints linebacker Demario Davis opened up about the seizure his young daughter suffered.
Davis gave a very unconventional interview following Sunday’s game. He didn’t take a single football question, but focused on something far more important than the events that took place on the field.
Davis said his daughter suffered her third epileptic seizure as she seized for 30 minutes. His wife Tamela, who rode with the child in an ambulance, told him that their daughter stopped breathing twice on the way to the hospital.
“It was on Friday when a bunch of kids were over at the house and she was playing and I noticed something was off,” Davis said.
“And I told her mom that I thought she was having a seizure. Her mom was pretty good. She saw it, my wife (Tamela). We took her in the room and didn’t want to cause a scene and she started to foam at the mouth. It was her worst seizure.”
“For 30 minutes, she seized. She wouldn’t calm. We had to call the paramedics. They came, and so over the course of time, it had been a total of 30 minutes, they got her in. My wife got in the paramedics with her. I got behind them driving. You could imagine all the thoughts that’s racing through your mind. The last sight you see of your daughter is she’s totally out of it.”
With a heavy heart on Sunday, Davis registered 10 tackles in Sunday’s 16-15 win.
Davis said his daughter talked in the middle of the night and “clearer than she was talking before.”
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Davis said he and his wife threw a party for their 7-year-old daughter, and the 4-year-old was able to come home as “if nothing was happening.” Davis described the seizure as the “worst seizure that she ever had…”
Davis is an NFL veteran who has been in the league since 2012. He earned his first Pro Bowl nod last season after recording 109 tackles and an interception to go along with a career-high 6.5 sacks.
He now how millions of new fans that are cheering for him and his family.
