Derrick Harmon’s mother Tiffany Healthy died shortly after the old defensive tackle of Oregon was written by Pittsburgh’s Steelers.
Harmon said that healthy, who had a stroke in 2022 which left him paralyzed on his left side, was on life support Thursday evening. She died shortly after Harmon went to the Detroit hospital to tell her that he was drafted, confirmed the healthy sister at Oregonian / Oregonlive.
“It was a little soft-man,” said Harmon to journalists after being drafted in the first round with the overall choice n ° 21. “My mother was not with me. She is at the hospital at the moment on Life Support. After having won, I’m going to go directly to the hospital and tell her that her son was drafted.”
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Healthy has undergone several brain surgeries before stroke and worked full time as a hotel director while raising Harmon in Detroit.
Before the pink Bowl, Harmon said that the best purchase he had made with the money he received for his name, image and resemblance (Nile) was a truck accessible in wheelchair for his mother.
“I grew up with her probably having seven and eight brain surgeries,” said Harmon on Thursday evening. “And after all these brain surgeries, she did not give up. She has always taken me to train, has always gone to work. And I am always, always at the back of my head, since the start of my university career, was, why can I continue if I am tired, I am injured, whatever his resilience and work.
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