Cody Ramsey stepped on a rugby league launch in September 2022.
On Sunday, he celebrated his 25th birthday and also returned to the football field, 896 days after that game in 2022.
It has been a long and difficult path for the St George's front rower to reach this point and had even doubted that he could never run again in the red and the target of St. Jorge. That occurred after he was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in 2022 and that doctors told him that he would never play professional football again.
But the challenging dragon had other ideas.
Today he made an emotional return to the field after presenting for St George during a new trial of the South Wales Cup against the Gallos in Henson Park.
During that parenthesis of football, the father of two of 25 years underwent multiple surgeries and lost almost 28 kg during his battle with chronic intestinal disease, which affects approximately 100,000 people in Australia.
His fiancé Tahlia, who was pregnant with her eldest daughter, supported him selflessly throughout the test, sleeping in a hospital chair next to her bed while going through the treatment.
Cody Ramsey has returned emotional to the football field after an 896 -day parenthesis due to a chronic intestinal disease
After he reached a 30 -minute blow in the second half, he cut an emotional figure when he left the playing field, running towards his partner and his children, mine and her.
'I returned and sat at the bank and my daughter mine, she's about 13 months My partner and I simply hugged them and I was super emotional, '' he told Daily Telegraph.
'My partner Tahlia, especially, has been there and obviously my family, but took care of everything through everything. It has been super emotional to us.
'I was pregnant at the hospital when I was going through most of my surgeries. I wasn't sick, but I was fighting and slept in one of those hospital chairs for six or seven months while I was there. '
He also revealed that the couple had committed during the summer.
'We go down to a resort on the coast, quite informal, only me, she and mine.
'If I didn't know (she was the only one) by then, there had to be something wrong with me.
“She has always been so, but the things she has done for me, I don't think I can pay it.”
Ramsey was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in 2022 and had feared he would never play the Rugby League again
Ramsey's friends, family and teammates made the trip to Marrickville to see him return to the field and a great joy went up when he returned to the field in the second term.
“Every day I sat in the hospital, I thought about going out in that field and today I had the opportunity,” he told the club.
This family is here.
'It was very emotional, but I feel that I am well prepared. I wouldn't get there if I didn't think I was in the right position.
While revealed that he never thought that his children could see him play the Rugby League, Ramsey revealed that this is only the beginning of a new trip that reveals that he now needs to put some weight while looking for his return to El NRL.
“I just have to have some weight, I have put at least 18 kilos since I left the hospital, but I still have at least 10 below,” said Ramsey, who currently weighs around 80 kg.
Today he returned to the football field and praised his family and his fiancee for supporting him
He had weighed around 90 kg when it resulted for dragons 896 days ago in the NRL in 2022.
Due to his condition, Ramsey has a slightly smaller intestine than most, which means that he needs to use the toilet more regularly and that can make it a bit more difficult to gain weight.
But challenging, he is not letting that arrive and is shooting to return to the NRL.
“I've never seen my dad to take a day off and my mother works 15 hours a day in the pub, so I'm not going to victimize me,” he said.
“You simply get up and do, to be honest.”