One year ago, two mornings after Christmas 2017, Chris Kreider woke up with a right arm that was numb. This developed after a couple of weeks in which the 26-year-old had felt fatigued and been coughing up blood.
So on this one-year Dec. 27 anniversary, what was the first thing that Kreider did upon awakening?
“Shook my right arm, felt fine, went, ‘OK, we’re good,’ ” the Rangers’ alternate captain told The Post on Thursday. “First thing I thought? Alive!”
Alive, thriving and able to tell about it, one year to the day after physicians diagnosed a blood clot in Kreider’s right arm.