ESPN: Pavlik Nearly Dies From Medication

Damn...Pav's situation is worse than I though...wow NEW YORK -- Kelly Pavlik's life was in peril. An allergic reaction to medication had caused the middleweight champion's temperature to soar past 104 degrees, and his heart rate to 150 beats a minute. When he was finally admitted to the hospital, the sweat was pouring off his body, which had turned shades of red and purple. An infectious diseases specialist at the Cleveland Clinic told his father, Mike Pavlik, that the 27-year-old fighter had better keep fighting. The outlook was grim. "I'm not a medical man," Mike Pavlik said, "but he was really close to the edge that day." "I don't remember that day, that's how bad it was," Kelly Pavlik said of his allergic reaction. "They told me it was pretty serious. It was the worst form of reaction you could have." What began as a small staph infection on the knuckle of his left hand, where Pavlik had received a cortisone injection, had somehow spiraled to this: A strapping young man who makes his living relentlessly pushing his body to the extreme was bedridden, his wife Samantha keeping vigil over him while doctors figured out what went wrong. http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=4589518