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Bears' Tillman reveals daughter's illness (AP)
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Thursday, 04 September 2008

Chicago Bears head coach Lovie Smith applauds as Chicago Bears cornerback Charles Tillman speaks about Tillman's daughter's cardiomyopathy problems that led up to her being the first patient in Illinois to receive the Berlin Heart during a press conference at Children's Memorial Hospital Friday, Aug. 29, 2008 in Chicago. On July 29, six days into training camp, Tiana Tillman became the first person in Illinois to benefit from the use of a device called the Berlin Heart, a small pump located outside the body but connected to the heart. The device is run by a laptop computer and works by helping the right ventricle of the heart pump blood to the lungs, and the left ventricle to pump blood to the body.

Bears cornerback Charles "Peanut" Tillman recalled handing coach Lovie Smith a slip of paper with a doctor's excuse for missing offseason workouts. "It said, 'To whom it may concern, Charles couldn't be at work because his daughter had to have a heart transplant,"' Tillman recalled. Tillman has missed assorted training camp practices and offseason workouts, and revealed Friday at Children's...


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