Robert Bush, a Long Island high school football player, is on life support after he collapsed during a summer workout. McLoganTV reports.
-- A Newfield High School football player is comatose and on life support after he collapsed during a summer workout.
"We're at the beginning of the final stages of my brother," said Steven Bush."We haven't said our goodbyes, but that's what we are preparing to do, talk about organ donation." It's unknown if Robert has a heredity condition. He was adopted at birth into the Bush family and is among 10 of their children and 300 foster children.Robert's teammates visited him in the hospital.
There are lingering questions about how much time passed before Robert's heart was shocked by a defibrillator. Were AEDs accessible and on the field?as in-season practices and games.
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