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HE was shaking with pain. His knuckles turned white as Bryson Goodwin gripped the stretcher, trying to fight off the pain in his chest.
As doctors hurried around him, the 26 year-old Bulldogs winger feared he was having a heart attack.
Then he passed out.
"I had a seizure pretty much as soon as I arrived at the hospital," Goodwin told The Sunday Telegraph from his bed at Concord Hospital.
"I was out the front, in the triage, and I felt this intense pain before I started shaking. I had never felt anything like it and yeah, I was scared."
Goodwin ruptured his spleen in a collision with Sharks fullback Matthew Wright last Monday. What seemed an innocuous hit turned into a life-threatening injury that will leave him bed-ridden for at least four weeks.
It has left the career of the off-contract winger in jeopardy. He had more than two litres of blood in his stomach when he arrived at Concord Hospital late last Monday night, the result of his torn spleen.
"It was just a collision," Goodwin said. "I was just going for the ball and I thought I was winded.
"I thought it would get better, but it didn't. I had to leave the field. The pain really started when I came off. The medical staff weren't sure what was wrong with me and then I went to the toilet and saw blood.
"I came back and they told me an ambulance was on the way. I could hardly move.
"It was the worst pain I had ever been in.
"I was lying in the sheds in agony. It was like an intense stomach ache.
"By the time it got to a really serious point, I was out of it. I didn't know what was happening."
The worry was left to Goodwin's wife, Jessica. She was given a sobering talk by the chief surgeon as her husband was rushed into surgery.
"I was told he could have a heart attack, a stroke, any number of things," Jessica said. "They gave me a run-down about the surgery and the worst-case scenario.
"They took him up and cut the blood supply to his spleen. He didn't get out (of surgery) until after 4am (Tuesday morning) and spent almost three days in (intensive care)."
Goodwin, who is hoping to be released from hospital this week, will spend the next month in bed waiting for his spleen to heal.
"It still does hurt, but I can move around, which is good, I guess," he said. "Every day I am feeling better, so I am just hoping it goes well. I have four weeks of doing nothing and it will be about 12 weeks until I can do any contact."
Fighting for a new contract, Goodwin had returned to the form which saw him earn a Kiwi Test jersey in 2009.
With no long-term damage expected, he is hoping he has shown enough for the Bulldogs to retain him.
"This hasn't come at a good time because I am off contract but I want to be back by the end of the year," he said.
"I love the Dogs and desperately want to stay."
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...red-for-his-life/story-e6frexnr-1226367873998
As doctors hurried around him, the 26 year-old Bulldogs winger feared he was having a heart attack.
Then he passed out.
"I had a seizure pretty much as soon as I arrived at the hospital," Goodwin told The Sunday Telegraph from his bed at Concord Hospital.
"I was out the front, in the triage, and I felt this intense pain before I started shaking. I had never felt anything like it and yeah, I was scared."
Goodwin ruptured his spleen in a collision with Sharks fullback Matthew Wright last Monday. What seemed an innocuous hit turned into a life-threatening injury that will leave him bed-ridden for at least four weeks.
It has left the career of the off-contract winger in jeopardy. He had more than two litres of blood in his stomach when he arrived at Concord Hospital late last Monday night, the result of his torn spleen.
"It was just a collision," Goodwin said. "I was just going for the ball and I thought I was winded.
"I thought it would get better, but it didn't. I had to leave the field. The pain really started when I came off. The medical staff weren't sure what was wrong with me and then I went to the toilet and saw blood.
"I came back and they told me an ambulance was on the way. I could hardly move.
"It was the worst pain I had ever been in.
"I was lying in the sheds in agony. It was like an intense stomach ache.
"By the time it got to a really serious point, I was out of it. I didn't know what was happening."
The worry was left to Goodwin's wife, Jessica. She was given a sobering talk by the chief surgeon as her husband was rushed into surgery.
"I was told he could have a heart attack, a stroke, any number of things," Jessica said. "They gave me a run-down about the surgery and the worst-case scenario.
"They took him up and cut the blood supply to his spleen. He didn't get out (of surgery) until after 4am (Tuesday morning) and spent almost three days in (intensive care)."
Goodwin, who is hoping to be released from hospital this week, will spend the next month in bed waiting for his spleen to heal.
"It still does hurt, but I can move around, which is good, I guess," he said. "Every day I am feeling better, so I am just hoping it goes well. I have four weeks of doing nothing and it will be about 12 weeks until I can do any contact."
Fighting for a new contract, Goodwin had returned to the form which saw him earn a Kiwi Test jersey in 2009.
With no long-term damage expected, he is hoping he has shown enough for the Bulldogs to retain him.
"This hasn't come at a good time because I am off contract but I want to be back by the end of the year," he said.
"I love the Dogs and desperately want to stay."
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...red-for-his-life/story-e6frexnr-1226367873998
