Former NFL QB Erik Kramer suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound on Tuesday but seems to be in good condition according to sources.
Authorities found Kramer Tuesday night in his Calabasas, California hotel room with a self inflicted but non life threatening gunshot wound. Police had been called there for a welfare check on the 50 year old former qb.
Kramer wife said:
“He is a very amazing man, a beautiful soul, but he has suffered depression since he was with the [Chicago] Bears,” Kramer said. “I can promise you he is not the same man I married.”
His wife is referring to post football Erik after he had suffered repeated blows to the head, a common cause of TBI(Traumatic Brain Injury).
She also said
“I know Erik and I would still be together if not for his football injury.” She called it a “brain injury” but did not specify whether Erik Kramer had sustained concussions during his playing days.
Kramer is just one of a long list of former players who have sustained substantial head injuries and have seen their personal and family life falter.
Kramer’s son Griffen died of a heroin overdose in 2011. He also had gotten a divorce in 2010.
This latest incident is just one of many in Kramer’s life, but in 2012 he seemed optimistic that he would make it through by saying.
“It has not been easy, I have been going through a divorce for the last two years. It has only added to it. It has been very difficult.But you find yourself and you find faith and the strength to go on. And when you have other kids, like I have Dillon who is 13, there is no option for anything else but to find a way. One day at a time, one conversation at a time and just persevere.”
