[CBFF] Kevin Everett

[Kenny Claxton]

Bills' Everett to spend one to two days under sedation

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- Bills reserve tight end Kevin Everett will spend
one to two days under sedation as doctors evaluate the extent of a
severe spinal injury that could leave him paralyzed.
Everett is in the intensive care unit at Buffalo's Millard Fillmore
Gates Hospital after a four-hour operation performed hours after he
was hurt in a season-opening loss to Denver, Eric Armstead, a partner
of the player's agent Brian Overstreet, told The Associated Press on
Monday.


"He'll be sedated for the next 24 to 48 hours and we won't know more
until then," Armstead said. "We were told by the doctors that the
surgery went well."

According to ESPN's Chris Mortensen, doctors in Buffalo have told
members of the Bills that bone chips were removed during surgery.


Everett's family members, including mother Patricia Dugas, were to
arrive in Buffalo on Monday from their Houston home, Armstead said.


Overstreet told the AP late Sunday that his client had some "sparse movement."


"The next couple of days is going to be critical," said Overstreet,
responding to a question about paralysis. "Our concern is for him to
come out of this healthy and, hopefully, be able to walk again."


The team doctor, John Marzo, is expected to provide a medical update
in the afternoon.


Bills general manager Marv Levy on Sunday night said doctors informed
the team that it's too early to determine the severity of the injury
and they will know more after monitoring the player overnight.


"Certainly, we feel the injury is serious, but I don't want to
speculate, and that's what the doctors told us," Levy said. "They told
us to wait to hear from them before making any speculative
announcement."


Everett sustained what the team called a cervical spine injury when he
ducked his head while driving in to tackle Denver's Domenik Hixon
during the second half-opening kickoff. Everett dropped face first to
the ground after his helmet hit Hixon high on the left shoulder and
side of the helmet.


Replays showed the player twitching for a few seconds as he attempted
to get up before falling back to the ground. Everett had his eyes open
but showed no further signs of movement during the next 15 minutes as
the team's medical staff and emergency personnel carefully placed him
on a backboard and, with the player's head and body immobilized,
loaded him into an ambulance at the Broncos 30.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.


On 9/10/07, mom2iancal <senzigx4 at charter.net> wrote:
> For some reason the type on all the ESPN.com articles comes up on my
> computer in a font so tiny there is no way in the world I could ever read
> it...   :(
>
> what does the story say???
>
> teri
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