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Earlier this season, ex-LSU head coach Ed Orgeron experienced a harrowing health scare that made him step away from the team.
While it wasn’t known what happened at the time, head coach Lane Kiffin expressed that it was a serious situation. Orgeron said it was actually a manner of life or death in a video on Thursday.
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“I was about to die and they saved my life,” Orgeron said in a video posted on X. “First of all I’m very happy to be here. All the people that helped me live that night, I was about to die that night and they saved my life and I’m very, very grateful for that. Not only that night, but all through my recovery. These guys have been great.”
Orgeron had spent 18 days in the hospital with sepsis, a blood-infection that potentially could be fatal.
The 65-year-old coach is special assistant to recruiting and defense for Kiffin and the Tigers and is currently still recovering.
“You know, we talk about family? One team, one heartbeat? Our Lady of the Lake got the best family of doctors I’ve ever seen in my life,” Orgeron said of the hospital responsible for saving his life.
Back in September while Orgeron’s health was still being kept under wraps and only a few details had been released, Kiffin joked that his sense of humor was still very much in tact.
“He’s doing better,” Kiffin said. “It was a little bit scary. I’m not going to get into any details with that. But he’s doing better. He’s still not all the way back. He just means a lot to me, we’ve just been through a lot. His passion – probably shouldn’t have joked that day. He said, ‘Hey, coach. You know I’m never going to a hospital, man. If I die, I’m dying out on that field there.’ That’s who he is, that’s how he is with everything. Sometimes that’s not always the best thing to follow.”
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