Four weeks after his cardiac arrest on the ice and two weeks after his successful surgery, Red Jackets defenseman Jordan Murray continues to be on the mend.
In the past few days, the EC-KAC players and employees have been able to look forward to visits from Jordan Murray, whose life is slowly, but step by step, returning to normality after the dramatic scenes on March 10th. “I am still on the road to recovery and – like my doctors – I see the development as positive and characterized by constant progress,” said the defender.
However, the cardiac arrest suffered in the aborted first quarter-final game significantly changed the Canadian’s everyday life: on the day his teammates played the sixth duel with Fehérvár AV19, he had to undergo an operation in which a cardioverter-defibrillator was implanted in his upper body. This is intended to prevent such a dramatic incident from happening again in the future.
The next check-up visit to the clinic is in ten days. If there is the green light, Jordan Murray and his partner Megan will then return to their Canadian homeland. His parents, who traveled to Klagenfurt immediately after their son’s medical emergency and also attended the third quarter-final game in the Heidi Horten Arena, have already started this trip.
Career continuation still open
“The doctors have told me that after inserting the device, I will be able to lead a – as they say – normal life, which is not subject to any restrictions. Whether this also includes continuing to play professional ice hockey is a question that I cannot and do not want to answer for myself at the moment,” says the 33-year-old.
Jordan Murray is particularly grateful for the wave of solidarity over the last four weeks: “Our club doctors, Hannes Florianz and Günther Bachler, saved my life on the players’ bench, and the medical care and support in the clinic afterwards was just as excellent. When I was brought back from artificial deep sleep after a few days, I also realized how great the public sympathy was. This support helped me get to the point where I am today.”
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