Reggie DuPee Helps Saves Lives - Oregon State University Athletics

By Kevin Hampton

Reggie DuPee doesn’t consider himself a hero.

Du Pee, a former Oregon State football player, was just doing his job that day, just like any other day.

On that day, April 12, Mary Prevost said DuPee helped save her life.

Prevost had been in the Bay Area for six hours on a trip to see her newborn granddaughter when she started to feel sick.

Prevost has hereditary spastic paraplegia, a degenerative disease that causes spasticity in her legs. An implanted pump gives regular and controlled doses of a medication, Baclofen, to keep the symptoms in check.

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