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Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Josh Sweat is heading to his first Super Bowl this Sunday after suffering a near-death experience last year. 

The 25-year-old suffered an artery rupture while at home days before Philadelphia's Wild Card round defeat to Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during the NFL playoffs last year. 

Sweat woke up feeling light-headed and sweating early in the week. He immediately knew something was not right and called the team doctor. 

'I felt my abdomen heavy from all the blood spilling in there,' Sweat told The New York Post, 'but I didn't know what was happening.

'He asked me what was wrong and I said, "I think I'm dying." He thought I was joking. He said, "But you got Tom Brady to get this weekend." ' 

But instead of preparing to face the Bucs, Sweat took an Uber to the hospital for an emergency procedure.  

'It wasn't that scary to me because I called [the team doctor], I was like "Just get me there, let me find out what's going on," and then they let me know, but I was already in the hospital at that point when I found out how serious it was.'

 His mother, Carlette, made the five-hour drive Chesapeake, Virginia, to be with her son and revealed he had told her he was 'light-headed' and 'had lost his vision' for a few minutes. 

'The scary part was when they said how much blood he actually had in his stomach,' she said. 'They said if he had fallen asleep, he never woulda woke up again, and Josh loves to sleep.'

Sweat was transported to the Penn trauma center for an emergency procedure to have

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