100 PERCENT FED UP – A 21-year-old football player from Jackson State had to be resuscitated after suffering cardiac arrest Wednesday morning.
Jackson State defensive lineman Kasim Walls, 2022, went to the University of Mississippi Medical Center Tuesday night with stomach pains. He suffered a heart attack on Wednesday morning and was put on ventilator.
Surgery was performed that afternoon. As of Thursday night, Walls was reported to be in critical but stable condition.
Vowles’ father, William, reported the doctor’s description of his son’s abdominal pain before the cardiac arrest. He said, “What happened was what the doctors thought, when Kasim’s heart failed, it was giving him stomach pain. His liver is suffering because fluid has built up with toxins in his liver, kidneys and blood. All those toxins built up in his bloodstream and his heart couldn’t function properly, and a machine was being used to clean the blood and toxins.
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William posted updates on his son’s condition via Twitter.
On Thursday morning, William used his son’s Twitter account to announce that Walls was “making progress” after the emergency procedure. Doctors gradually weaned him off his medication and “machine input” he attached “so his organs could relax and not work as hard,” he said.
Doctors “reduced the sedation so he could wake up on his own, but it might not be until the fourth day in the machine,” he reported.
The machine allows his limbs to relax and not work so hard. Then they taper off the sedation so they can wake up on their own but it may not be until day 4 in the machine. I appreciate all of you so much for pouring out love and prayers and phone calls and support for my son!
— Kasim Vauls (@KVauls52) February 16, 2023
Walls’ heart attack comes just six weeks after the unusual cardiac arrest of 24-year-old NFL player Damar Hamlin, who went into cardiac arrest on the field during a Monday Night Football game.
