Steelers WR Santonio Holmes Not Affected By Sickle Cell In Denver

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Steelers WR Santonio Holmes Not Affected By Sickle Cell In Denver

04 November 2009
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Like Ryan Clark, Santonio Holmes, too, has the sickle-cell trait, which he only discovered this year. Unlike Clark, Holmes played in Denver two years ago without any adverse health problems other than one visiting players experienced for decades in Mile High Stadium.

“I just had a lot of trouble breathing when I was up there last time,” Holmes said yesterday. “I was in there before the game, I went out and I was trying to catch my breath and I couldn’t do it, so I stayed in [the locker room] a little bit longer [before] coming out on the field.”

Holmes started that game and caught six passes for 54 yards and one touchdown in the Steelers’ 31-28 loss in that Oct. 21, 2007, game.

“Every time I was taking a break out of the game, I had an oxygen mask, an inhaler right by my side,” Holmes said. “It was real tough for me to breathe.”

Holmes said he had no other symptoms during or after the game. Clark, of course, did; he became almost deathly ill, eventually had his spleen and gall bladder removed during surgery, lost 30 pounds and did not play again that season. It was blamed on a reaction in his blood to the sickle cell.

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