ESPN reporter gives update on family health emergency and opens up on 'most terrifying day of my life'

ESPN's Laura Rutledge has opened up astir the 'most terrifying day' of her life, which was Christmas Day successful 2023. 

While galore had conscionable opened presents from nether the histrion and were sitting backmost watching the Kansas City Chiefs play the Las Vegas Raiders, Rutledge successful her household were successful a panic with her then-7-month-old lad Jack. 

After Jack country earlier successful December, the Rutledge household was gathered astatine Laura's grandmother's location successful Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, per Front Office Sports, erstwhile chaos ensued.  

Jack was abruptly 'inconsolable' with Rutledge and her household not knowing what was bothering him until looking astatine the country wherever helium had surgery, lone to find a 'massive hematoma' there.  

Rutledge's lad was taken to the exigency room, wherever doctors voiced concerns astir life-threatening interior bleeding. Laura and Jack were rapidly taken via chopper to Charleston for exigency surgery, portion her husband, Josh Rutledge, had to marque the two-hour drive.  

'It was astir apt the astir terrifying time of my beingness - and I consciousness precise fortunate to accidental that and to person walked distant from it with a steadfast kid due to the fact that there’s truthful galore radical who don’t get to person that happen,' Rutledge said. 'He was successful truthful overmuch symptom - the mediocre small guy. It was conscionable awful.'

In Charleston, doctors recovered that Jack's assemblage had created its ain humor clot, meaning that immoderate bleeding was not spreading to different organs. 

'I inactive deliberation it was a miracle. I don’t cognize however other to picture it,' Rutledge said. 'The doctors determination who were experts connected these things were amazed by it too. We’ve gone backmost to the infirmary successful Connecticut to spot his doctors monthly successful the aftermath, and we benignant of thought we’d beryllium doing that everlastingly since we ne'er knew what caused it.' 

'But recently, astir 2 months ago, we went successful and they were like, "You don’t person to travel back. He’s good!"'

Jack volition crook 2 successful May, with Rutledge having an older daughter, five-year-old Reese. 

Rutledge is successful New Orleans for the Super Bowl this week, her archetypal clip successful the metropolis since covering the Sugar Bowl, which was delayed by a time aft a panic onslaught connected Bourbon Street successful the aboriginal hours of New Year's Day.