Daughter's Birth
On March 3, 2008, Ordway called into The Big Show to explain his absence from the show for the past three airings. His wife had just given birth to a baby girl, Mia, at Boston's Children's Hospital and both mother and daughter had suffered severe complications during delivery.
Mia, who was born without a heartbeat and wasn’t breathing, was treated at Children's Hospital. After doctors diagnosed Mia with brain trauma injury, she was placed in a "hydrothermal cooling unit that dropped her body temperature to 92.3 degrees for three days". This same treatment had been used on injured Buffalo Bill player Kevin Everett.
Ordway's wife Sarah underwent treatment at Boston's Brigham & Women's Hospital for internal injuries suffered during delivery.
On March 19th, 2008 Ordway made his return to The Big Show. He gave an update on both is wife Sara and his newborn Mia who are both on the road to recovery. The co-hosts on the show were WBZ4's Steve Burton and Tom Caron. Caron's wife coincidentally experienced similar childbirth complications with one of his newborn sons who is now 12.
Mia is Ordway's first child with Sarah, he has three children from a previous marriage named Michael, Amanda, and Holly.
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