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Sofa King Crimson 
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| I'm suffering from Te'o fatigue but this is just sick.... (Posted on 1/17/13 at 4:19 pm)
Thamel released the transcript of his 9/23 interview with Te'o.
TE'O: It was harder than it was the previous week. I was rolling. The feeling of it settling in that, she's not physically here no more. You just can't call her. I talked to my girlfriend every single day. I slept on the phone with her every single day. When she was going though chemo, she would have all these pains and the doctors were saying they were trying to give her medicine to make her sleep. She still couldn't sleep. She would say, "Just call my boyfriend and have him on the phone with me, and I can sleep." I slept on the phone with her every single night.
SI: You would literally sleep with your phone on with her on it?
TE'O: With her on it.
SI: When you woke up?
TE'O: She's be on it.
SI: What would the phone say?
TE'O: Like eight hours. Lucky she had AT&T so it was all free or my family would kill me.
SI: When did you start talking to her all night?
TE'O: When she got in her accident?
SI: So starting in April?
TE'O: Yeah and you know, she was in a coma. I would try, and you know.
SI: Hit by a drunk driver. What were her injuries?
TE'O: I don't know. She had a lot of different injuries.
SI: How long was she hospitalized?
TE'O: She was in that hospital for about two months.
SI: Wow, did she get out?
TE'O: She didn't get out. She went from there. Remember she got in the accident and she was in a coma. We lost her, actually, twice. She flatlined twice. They revived her twice. It was just a trippy situation. It was a day I was flying home from South Bend to go home for summer break. It was May. Mid-May. That was the day where they said, "Bro, we're going to pull it. We're going to pull the plug." I remember having this feeling like everything is going to be OK. They were telling me, "Say your goodbyes." From April 28 to around mid-May, I was always talking to my girlfriend who was on a machine.
SI: She couldn't communicate?
No. She could only breathe. One of the miraculous things was when I talked to her and she would hear my voice her breathing would pick up. Like quickly, and then she would start crying. But her breathing would quicken, and she would start crying. So her brother was in the room with the nurse. They were monitoring her. She said, "Who is she on the phone with?" Her boyfriend. She was like, "That's amazing. She doesn't do that with anybody else." So that happened. And then she flatlined and we were losing her.
The day I went home, that was the day they were going to pull it. They were saying their goodbyes and all that. I said, "Babe, I'm never going to say goodbye to you. If you really want to go, she really missed her dad, so I said, "If you want to go, be with dad, go. Just know that I love you very, very much." I had this very positive feeling that everything was going to be OK. I landed in Hawaii. By the time I said my goodbyes. Not my goodbyes, my I love you, I'll see you later, that kind of thing, I jumped on the airplane to go to Hawaii. They were scheduled to pull the plug while I was in the air.
So right when I landed, I was expecting to get a voicemail saying she's gone. So I landed and I had a voicemail from her brother saying, "Brother, call me back right now." So you can imagine what's going through my head. I was like, "What am I going to do? How am I going to take this?'"And so I called him back, the doctor came in and he saw something and he wants to try some treatment on her to see if it works. From there she slowly started to get better. Slowly. Eventually she came out of her coma and she started having memory problems and she couldn't remember because of the accident. That's how much damage she had to her frontal lobe. She had memory problems. I was actually the first person that she talked to. She was breathing, breathing. When I talked to her, I would say, "Babe, do you know who this is?" I knew she knew who it was because her breathing would pick up. I was like, "Relax, chill. Breathe slowly. Breathe slowly." And then, that was when she first started to speak was that conversation. I was like, "Babe, I love you. I love you." Very slightly she said, "I love you."
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DownSouthCrawfish 
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| re: I'm suffering from Te'o fatigue but this is just sick.... (Posted on 1/17/13 at 4:20 pm to Sofa King Crimson)
Sick? I find this absolutely hilarious.
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Hester Carries 
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| re: I'm suffering from Te'o fatigue but this is just sick.... (Posted on 1/17/13 at 4:23 pm to DownSouthCrawfish)
Thats a super committed lie.
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Dr RC 
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| re: I'm suffering from Te'o fatigue but this is just sick.... (Posted on 1/17/13 at 4:23 pm to Sofa King Crimson)
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Y.A. Tittle
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| re: I'm suffering from Te'o fatigue but this is just sick.... (Posted on 1/17/13 at 4:24 pm to DownSouthCrawfish)
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Sick? I find this absolutely hilarious.
It's bizarre to the extreme.
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brg0320
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| re: I'm suffering from Te'o fatigue but this is just sick.... (Posted on 1/17/13 at 4:24 pm to Sofa King Crimson)
Some of the things he describes about her coma and time in the hospital doesn't sound humanly possible
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Akit1
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Member since Jul 2006
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| re: I'm suffering from Te'o fatigue but this is just sick.... (Posted on 1/17/13 at 4:24 pm to Dr RC)
Just insane.
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Broski
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| re: I'm suffering from Te'o fatigue but this is just sick.... (Posted on 1/17/13 at 4:24 pm to Y.A. Tittle)
It's hilarious how much of an idiot this guy is and that people are buying the "he's a victim"
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dawgdayafternoon 
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| re: I'm suffering from Te'o fatigue but this is just sick.... (Posted on 1/17/13 at 4:27 pm to Sofa King Crimson)
Her name is Lennay Kekua. Her name is Lennay Kekua. Her name is Lennay Kekua.
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Powerman
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| re: I'm suffering from Te'o fatigue but this is just sick.... (Posted on 1/17/13 at 4:27 pm to brg0320)
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Some of the things he describes about her coma and time in the hospital doesn't sound humanly possible
I'm sure it's the bull shite like that that leads people to question things and look into this thing in the first place
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Melvin 
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| re: I'm suffering from Te'o fatigue but this is just sick.... (Posted on 1/17/13 at 4:27 pm to Sofa King Crimson)
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stout 
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| re: I'm suffering from Te'o fatigue but this is just sick.... (Posted on 1/17/13 at 4:29 pm to Sofa King Crimson)
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We lost her, actually, twice. She flatlined twice. They revived her twice
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Dr. 3
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| re: I'm suffering from Te'o fatigue but this is just sick.... (Posted on 1/17/13 at 4:29 pm to Broski)
fricking Spielberg isnt that creative. Im amazed at people's ability to commit to a lie.
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Party At LSU
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| re: I'm suffering from Te'o fatigue but this is just sick.... (Posted on 1/17/13 at 4:29 pm to Sofa King Crimson)
How anyone can believe the "victim" card is beyond me.
Even if he was duped at first, when he found out it was a joke he went to the extreme to save face.
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RonFNSwanson
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| re: I'm suffering from Te'o fatigue but this is just sick.... (Posted on 1/17/13 at 4:30 pm to Sofa King Crimson)
So he never visited her once when she's in a coma? Seems legit...
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Linkovich 
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| re: I'm suffering from Te'o fatigue but this is just sick.... (Posted on 1/17/13 at 4:32 pm to RonFNSwanson)
No wonder Bama was so successful with the playaction.
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LSUsmartass 
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| re: I'm suffering from Te'o fatigue but this is just sick.... (Posted on 1/17/13 at 4:32 pm to RonFNSwanson)
When was this transcript released? There are some unbelievable question marks and flat out obvious lies...yet there are still talking heads on ESPN claiming Manti is the victim here, I don't know how anybody could come to that conclusion after this SI piece
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Y.A. Tittle
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| re: I'm suffering from Te'o fatigue but this is just sick.... (Posted on 1/17/13 at 4:33 pm to RonFNSwanson)
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So he never visited her once when she's in a coma? Seems legit...
The "love of his life" is on death's door and he couldn't arrange for an extended layover on his flight from South Bend to Honolulu (which wouldn't have been hard to do at all in LA) to say his goodbyes in person?
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Kafka
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| re: I'm suffering from Te'o fatigue but this is just sick.... (Posted on 1/17/13 at 4:33 pm to DownSouthCrawfish)
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Sick? I find this absolutely hilarious
when the the young people say sick they mean sick sick not sick sick
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Fireman17 
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| re: I'm suffering from Te'o fatigue but this is just sick.... (Posted on 1/17/13 at 4:33 pm to stout)
Can't wait for the Te'o movie.. I am sure lifetime is already on the horn with him about it..
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