NFL Star Tevin Coleman’s Daughter, 6, Placed on Ventilator

Tevin Colemanthe 6 year old girl Nazaneen experienced a brief obstacle in his health journey due to sickle cell disease.

The NFL star and his wife Akilah Coleman shared that their child was recently placed on a ventilator because she “couldn’t breathe on her own” and “needed the machine to expand her lungs (and) breathe for her.”

“I was coming back and losing consciousness, it’s an unexplainable feeling to see your child literally fighting to breathe,” Akilah wrote in a joint Instagram post on April 9. “It’s really hard for any parent to be so vulnerable and transparent, but we think it’s important because we share so much of our ups and downs that it would be disingenuous and misleading not to share this.”

Calling her daughter “the most resilient girl I know,” Akilah shared that Nazaneen, who has a 6-year-old twin brother named Nézera– also received a blood transfusion while hospitalized. Fortunately, the girl’s condition has since improved and she has been released from the hospital, as seen in an accompanying video shared by the couple.