Eric LeGrand, the former Rutgers defensive tackle who was paralyzed from the neck down after making a tackle during a game against Army in 2010, returned home after after being in the hospital for 16 days with pneumonia associated to his spinal cord injury.
LeGrand went to a Hackensack Medical Center in New Jersey thinking that he had appendicitis. But the 31-year-old tweeted Wednesday that he had “full blown pneumonia” and had “blacked out in the emergency room.”
“A few life saving procedures, on a ventilator for five days and a lot more, I'm so thankful to be released from the hospital today,” LeGrand tweeted.