Sportsnet: Blue Jays’ Loup has new appreciation for life after birth of son
Posted October 23, 2015 10:15 pm.
Last Updated October 23, 2015 10:16 pm.
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By: Arden Zwelling
KANSAS CITY — Aaron Loup still has the white plastic bracelet around his right arm. The hospital won’t let him take it off.
“They told me if I take it off they’ve got to redo all the numbers and everything and it’ll be a huge pain,” Loup says. “So, I’ll just tape around it for now. Maybe it’ll be like a good luck thing. Hopefully, at least.”
Aaron Loup could use some good luck. A week ago he got on the Blue Jays charter to Texas with his pregnant wife Leighann, ahead of Games 3 and 4 of the ALDS. But hours before Game 3 Leighann’s water broke. She was just 26 weeks into her term.
With assistance from some Texas Rangers doctors, Leighann and Aaron were rushed to a Dallas hospital and immediately admitted. They stayed there for the next four days while Leighann was monitored and the Blue Jays stormed back in the series, winning three straight to eliminate the Rangers.
Loup slept in a chair by Leighann’s side every night and watched the games on a hospital television, standing right in front of it and pacing the room because it made him so anxious.
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