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TSU player Christion Abercrombie tweets for first time since serious head injury

Abercrombie wrote that he was doing well and thanked everyone for all the prayers for him during his recovery.

Injured Tennessee State University player Christion Abercrombie is showing major signs of progress - posting a Tweet for the first time he sustained a serious head injury earlier this year. 

Abercrombie wrote that he was doing well and thanked everyone for all the prayers for him during his recovery.

"I am him! And GOD is good all the time," he said. 

Abercrombie, a graduate of Westlake High School, suffered the severe injury late in the second quarter while playing in a game against Vanderbilt on Sept. 29. Paramedics rushed him to Vanderbilt Medical Center, where doctors performed emergency surgery. He remained in critical condition in the ICU for weeks.

The sophomore linebacker's community back home rallied around him and his family, recalling the football player to be a star on and off the field. 

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"His character was second to none," said Westlake coach Bryan Love. "He was a great leader for us on the field, but he also was a great student in the classroom. Kids respected him; his teammates on the football field as well as the regular students, just because of the way he carried himself." 

Shortly after he was injured, Abercrombie's mother Staci reported he was showing signs of progress, squeezing her hand so hard "my knuckles were popping," she wrote on Twitter. 

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Eventually, Abercrombie became well enough to be discharged from the Vanderbilt Medical Center to be transferred to the Shepherd Center,which specializes in spinal chord and brain injury treatment, to undergo rehabilitation. 

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Doctors at the Shepard Center said nurses who have taken care of the 20-year-old have been giving each other high fives in his hospital room because they are so happy about the positive responses they are getting from him. 

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“This is not the journey we planned. We are still fighting and grateful," Staci said.

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