Maycee Barber remains to be looking for solutions after she suffered a medical emergency that pressured her to drop out of a principal occasion battle in opposition to Erin Blanchfield simply moments earlier than strolling to the octagon at UFC Vegas 107 this previous Saturday.
The stunning announcement was made through the broadcast with Barber unable to compete and Blanchfield later revealing that UFC officers instructed her that the one-time Contender Collection winner suffered a seizure backstage earlier than being taken to an area hospital for remedy. Fact be instructed, Barber doesn’t really keep in mind a lot of what occurred backstage as a result of roughly half-hour earlier than she was scheduled to battle, she began feeling off and the following factor she remembers is being transported out of the UFC APEX in an ambulance.
“I hate going again and being like now we have no solutions however we’re not solely certain what occurred,” Barber instructed ESPN. “Clearly, there was a medical emergency. We’re not fairly certain what it was, what it’s however there was one thing that occurred. I don’t precisely keep in mind the whole lot however there was an occasion that occurred within the again after I was warming up and the physician, the commissioners, all people noticed it and the commissioners, I assume they have been asking me if I used to be OK and I used to be saying I used to be.
“They didn’t suppose that I used to be and they also saved asking the coaches — and once more, I’m not solely certain as a result of it’s laborious for me to recollect the whole lot that occurred — however from what I used to be instructed, the coaches have been like ‘we’re not fairly certain [what happened].’ So that they have been attempting to determine it out they usually ended up all going and getting the physician and the following factor I do know, I used to be at the back of an ambulance and being transported to a hospital. Then I stayed there, doing a bunch of checks attempting to determine what was happening.”
Barber dropping out of the battle occurred after she missed weight on Friday, hitting the dimensions a half-pound over the flyweight restrict for a non-title bout. The occasion additionally befell greater than a yr after Barber’s most up-to-date UFC look when one other mysterious sickness saved her sidelined for a number of months with no actual clarification about what occurred to her.
There’s no phrase if the previous sickness and this present state of affairs are associated, however Barber says the UFC helps her search out medical remedy in hopes that docs can lastly diagnose the well being subject.
“I used to be instructed it seemed like my autonomic nervous system may need been having a problem,” Barber revealed. “They mentioned it seemed like a pseudo-seizure is what I used to be instructed. However there’s no solutions. There’s actually no person who’s like, ‘That is precisely what it was.’ It’s simply lots of ‘we have to run checks and we have to get some solutions.’”
Barber admitted she’s completely pissed off not figuring out precisely what’s unsuitable together with her, which is why she doesn’t wish to speculate if this newest incident is expounded to her previous medical issues or the load reduce she endured previous to the battle.
“I felt nice,” Barber mentioned. “I keep in mind going to the bus, I keep in mind attending to the world and I keep in mind warming up and beginning the nice and cozy up. I felt good. I used to be assured. I used to be like that is the second, that is after I get to walkout, it’s my first principal occasion. All of these items after which the whole lot else is sort of a blur.
“There’s some random issues. I do know that I used to be on my interval through the weight reduce however so far as me giving a direct reply on ‘oh it was a part of it from the load reduce, it was from one thing else,’ I imply once more, I wish to depart it as much as the docs to find out what that was. However I’ve reduce the very same quantity of weight this week that I’ve previously. I’ve had greater weight cuts than the week that I simply had. I don’t know if I’d attribute it to the load reduce, that’s not what I do however once more, I’m not a specialist. I don’t suppose it was that.”
When it comes particularly to her profession and the timeline when she may battle once more, Barber stays in limbo with hopes that docs can quickly diagnose what’s taking place to then determine a plan of action.
Till then, Barber says she has to attend and see as a result of the UFC wants those self same solutions earlier than feeling assured sufficient to place her again within the cage once more.
“I assume I’m simply actually confused to be sincere,” Barber mentioned. “So far as my profession and the whole lot goes, the one factor that can decide that’s us discovering out what it was. What’s happening or what the problem was. Whether or not it’s a nervous system subject or no matter it’s, as a result of on the finish of the day, the well being is first.
“We now have to determine that earlier than I might be like ‘oh yeah, let’s take a battle’ or earlier than the UFC will even think about providing me a battle.”
Understandably emotional and preventing again the tears, Barber by no means imagined she would discover herself on this place, particularly after she constructed a formidable six-fight win streak that had her on the cusp of title rivalry.
Now Barber is unable to compete and ready for docs to determine what went unsuitable.
“I’ve at all times given it the whole lot I’ve received,” Barber mentioned. “For one thing like this to occur, for me to be on my first principal occasion — nicely I assume it’s my second as a result of I received sick in my first — for me to be on this second probability of getting a principal occasion and second alternative to point out the world what I can do, to proceed to chase this belt and this dream from being a younger lady, this has been my dream. So it was by no means part of my dream to get there to battle evening and to not stroll out.
“To disappoint so many individuals and myself. It’s powerful. It’s not one thing that was in my management and it’s not one thing that was in anybody’s management. It’s actually laborious as a result of that’s not what I wished. It’s not what I had in retailer. It’s not what I had deliberate. It’s not any of that so it’s actually irritating.”
