TEAGUE

He was happy to be there (or anywhere) since he had been hospitalized the weekend before with a pulmonary embolism (or PE). That’s a blood clot in the main artery or tributary of the lung that travels elsewhere in the body. It was discovered after Teague complained of intensifying shoulder and chest pains and nausea to UCA’s medical officials and they sent him to Conway Regional Hospital for further tests.

Medical officials do not know where the clot originated (Teague is a pilot and he had been flying some long hours in April on a confined space) but believed it traveled through the heart and lodged in the shoulder area. Fortunately, the clot was small enough that it apparently did no significant damage. But the young UCA athletic director literally dodged a bullet.

“I am grateful to Conway Regional,” Teague said. “I was treated with professionalism and class,” Teague said.