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Roethlisberger said Wednesday night that he was told he was "seconds, maybe a minute away from dying" immediately after his motorcycle accident last month. "I slit a vein or artery in my mouth or my throat and it was draining blood right into my stomach and luckily the paramedic noticed it and stopped it or else I would have had too much blood in my stomach," he told ESPN's Jim Rome in Los Angeles where he was for the taping of the ESPY Awards.
Reported by the Associated Press
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The Steelers won the ESPY for best team and Roethlisberger joined his teammates and Bill Cowher onstage to accept the award. It was his first public appearance since the June 12 accident. Although he needed seven hours of surgery to repair a broken jaw and other facial bones, all indications are he's well ahead of schedule in his recovery.
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