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Towson wide receiver Sam Reynolds thankful for the little things after sudden cardiac arrest

Towson's Sam Reynolds on his road back to football after coma

How much do you think you could accomplish in 55 weeks?

For Towson wide receiver Sam Reynolds, that’s the amount of time between going into cardiac arrest and almost losing his life, to strapping up to play in the first game of the 2024 season.

August 14th, 2023, started as a normal day for Reynolds. Fall practice with his team, spent some time with his girlfriend, prepared for the next day and went to sleep. During the night, he went into ventricular fibrillation, or v-fib, which according to the Mayo Clinic is a type of irregular heartbeat that stops the heart from pumping blood to the rest of the body. It’s the most frequent cause of sudden cardiac death. It wasn’t until days later he woke up in a hospital bed in St. Jospeh’s Medical Center.

“I woke up just thinking I had a great sleep, tried to get up and use the restroom and there were tubes holding my arm down and I see my parents. I knew something’s not right,” Reynolds recapped with a smile on his face.

He listened as his parents and the medical staff explained what happened, and how he’d been in a medically induced coma to protect his brain from severe damage. But as he was taking it all in, the competitor in him took over.

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