Demario Davis Shares Incredible Story Involving Daughter
NEW ORLEANS -- Demario Davis gave a very unconventional interview following Sunday's game. He didn't take a single football question, but focused on something far more important than the events that took place on the field.
Davis brought in his bible and quoted scripture to begin his press conference, citing a passage in Revelation that emphasized a 'knock'. It's no secret that Davis isn't ashamed of his faith, and if you've never heard about it, you should check it out.
Davis revealed that his Friday was pretty eventful, to say the least, as his youngest daughter Carly-Faith had an epilepsy seizure attack. It's the same daughter who survived retinoblastoma and has been fully cleared from it. She had her third seizure, and it's been almost two years since an episode. Davis said that if she went one more month without incident that she would have been taken off medication. However, they now have to start over.
"It was on Friday when a bunch of kids were over at the house and she was playing and I noticed something was off," Davis said.
"And I told her mom that I thought she was having a seizure. Her mom was pretty good. She saw it, my wife (Tamela). We took her in the room and didn't want to cause a scene and she started to foam at the mouth. It was her worst seizure."
"For 30 minutes, she seized. She wouldn't calm. We had to call the paramedics. They came, and so over the course of time, it had been a total of 30 minutes, they got her in. My wife got in the paramedics with her. I got behind them driving. You could imagine all the thoughts that's racing through your mind. The last sight you see of your daughter is she's totally out of it."
Davis said when he got to the hospital that his wife told him Carly-Faith had stopped breathing twice in the ambulance. They gave her medicine and the seizing stopped. However, there was some long-term concern from the family.
"At this point, if she's seized for 30 minutes, you start to fear that there could be development issues that could mess with her brain. She stopped breathing, there's no oxygen going to her brain. Starting to think her speech could be slurred, or anything. Or worse."
Davis said his family prayed and prayed, as he and his wife stayed overnight at the hospital. In the middle of the night, Davis said he heard a knock. It was his daughter.
"When I heard my daughter talk in the middle of the night -- and my daughter doesn't have any development issues, praise God. She doesn't have any slurred speech prior to this. She woke up talking clearer than she was talking before. Now anyone who deals with epilepsy knows that it takes a few days for them to come back. They usually can get back to normal wherever they were, but it takes a couple of days. They're groggy. It's a lot, because what their body is like. It's like the TV just staticky in her brain."
"She was talking clearer than before, and it was 3 o'clock. We heard her talk and let her talk for about 20 minutes and said, 'Hey baby, it's nighttime, let's go back to sleep.' I just prayed, started saying, 'Praise God. Praise God.' The next morning when she got up, my daughter was so sharp. She was able to talk to me and her mom. I mean, clear conversation. She's sharp for a four-year-old. No stuttering, all her words clear."
Davis said his daughter was already sharp, sharper from before. He said that if anyone was able to have a conversation with her, that you wouldn't be able to tell that anything had ever happened. Davis said his family had a birthday party planned for their seven-year-old daughter ahead of them.
"That day, she got to be released from the hospital and she came back home, and it was as if nothing was happening. She was playing with the kids the day before, and she had the worst seizure she had ever had, and the next day she's back out of there playing with the kids."
Davis said because of protocols, they didn't let her get overstimulated. They kept bringing her in, cooled her down, not being able to let her do too much. Davis said that's the knock he heard from God.
"What I want to share is, we get to play this game and that's great. There's so many amazing things that happened in that game, and everyone wants to hear about them. But when we leave this game, we go back to being regular people. And regular people are living life, and people are waiting for a knock."
Davis concluded his presser by promising to talk about football next week.
