12 across his back, he says a little prayer to give thanks that the number didn’t take his beloved Nahomy away. But when he joined the Rangers this season, he finally got the number that means so much to his family.Īnd each time he buttons up that jersey and puts the No. It wasn’t available last year in Minnesota. 12 to mark that interminable time she spent in the pool. Someone suggested to Sandy - a journeyman catcher who has now worn seven different numbers with six teams - that he change to No. Last year, several family members were reminiscing about what happened to Nahomy and her remarkable recovery in a group text. The Leóns shared their story with the AP before news this weekend that the 2-year-old daughter of Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Shaquil Barrett drowned in a swimming pool at the family’s home. “She really likes to think she is a princess,” Liliana said. She’ll turn 4 later this month and revels in being a girly girl, loving anything that’s pink or sparkly. She’s perfectly healthy now and has no lingering effects from the harrowing experience. The medical team told the Leóns they couldn’t explain Nahomy’s recovery. Everything came back clean, and the family got to go home. Nahomy spent a few days in the hospital recovering and undergoing tests to make sure she was OK. But later that day, they removed the remainder of the tubes and put her on the floor. The Leóns were encouraged, but doctors still cautioned that Nahomy could have physical difficulties. “He said: ‘Yes, I’m here baby, with you.’” “She just said: ‘Papi you’re here,’” Liliana recalled. She started talking immediately when tubes were removed from her throat. I don’t know what happened.”īy 10 that morning, she was breathing by herself. “I saw my daughter on her knees on the bed,” he said. The couple spent that night in the small room with their little girl as she fought for her life.Ī groggy Sandy woke up at 6:30 the next morning and couldn’t believe his eyes. I went to my wife, and I just hugged her.” “She was in the bed with all the tubes, and she still wasn’t breathing by herself,” he said. Sandy arrived in Fort Meyers at about 8 p.m. ![]() The next 72 hours, they said, would be crucial in discovering what toll this had taken on Nahomy. They cautioned that she might not be able to walk, talk or do everyday things that people take for granted. “I was like, ‘She’s not coming back.’”ĭoctors warned the family that even if Nahomy awoke, she was almost certain to have brain damage because of how long she was in the water. “When I heard them say that she was in the pool for that long, I broke down,” Sandy said. “And they told me from the time she fell, until the time you picked her up was 12 minutes.” “They looked at me with that face that something really, really bad happened,” she said. Liliana was sitting in the hospital room with Nahomy when authorities who saw the video - which the Leóns showed to The Associated Press - came in to talk to her about what they saw. Officials chartered a private jet so he could get to his baby girl immediately. ![]() Needing help, he called someone from the team. ![]() “I was having a hard time at the hotel,” he said.
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