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Ortega's temperature reportedly rises to 107.5 degrees

ESPN.com news services

Friday, October 18, 2002

Miami linebacker Buck Ortega's shoulder surgery was anything but routine Wednesday afternoon. Ortega's temperature rose to over 107 degrees following the surgery, but he was in stable condition Thursday evening, according to a report in the Miami Herald. "'I just keep telling Buck, 'God saved you for something,''' his mother, Joanne, said to the newspaper. "His temperature went from 98.6 to 107.5 in seconds. The anesthesiologist said, 'You do not understand the gravity of what happened.' It wa ...

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