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John Keim Report

Mike Sellers Nearly Lost His Life

John Keim Report

Bleav + Ampire Media

Sports, Football

4.8651 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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John talks to former Washington FB Mike Sellers about his harrowing health experience that included long stints in the hospital and a heart transplant. Named the number one Aerial Adventure Park in North America by USA Today, the country's largest ropes course & zipline park, is now open 7 days a week!  Located in the heart of Montgomery County, Maryland, The Adventure Park offers climbing, ziplining, Axe throwing, food, and more! Reserve your adventure today at www.TheAdventurePark.com/keim

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0:00.0

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0:03.0

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0:25.6

That's AMPIRE. Always much appreciated when you tune in. And don't forget, you can always read

0:31.2

my work on ESPN.com. Today, I'm joined by former Washington Redskins fullback, Mike Sellers.

0:39.1

I'm sure you're aware of the health situation and the major health scares that he

0:43.6

scared that he had over the last seven or eight months.

0:47.2

Mike underwent heart transplant surgery in April.

0:51.2

He now looks like and sounds like he's doing very well. So all things are good for Mike.

0:56.6

I wanted to bring him on to talk about his experience and all the procedures he had to go through

1:01.4

and just how obviously scary and frightening this was for him, for his family and just where he's

1:08.3

at now with everything. And I also, you know, there was a GoFundMe that was started for him back in the wintertime.

1:14.6

And I do remember some people kind of commenting like, why is it that a former player needs

1:19.4

this?

1:19.6

Don't they get free insurance?

1:21.1

They don't get it for life.

1:22.5

And Mike explains when that ran out for him.

1:25.3

And there's a lot of medical debt for him.

1:27.5

So anyways, I want to bring on Mike to just kind of talk to the fans and let him know,

1:32.5

get an update on how he's doing.

1:34.9

And again, sounds like, looks like he's doing very well, which is very, very great to see.

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