Giants' Ryan says team trainers helped save his wife's life

Logan Ryan credited the New York Giants' training staff with helping to save his wife's life following the team's loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday.

The Giants safety said his wife, Ashley, was at their offseason home in Florida to vote in Tuesday's presidential election when she began complaining of stomach pains.

"I was leaving the stadium around 1 a.m. and she was telling me about some pains she had in her stomach," Ryan said, according to Ryan Dunleavy of the New York Post. "I told her she wanted to sleep it off. She said she was in extreme pain but she would wait until the morning. I talked to one of our trainers about the symptoms and he said, 'No, she needs to go to the (emergency room).'"

Ashley learned she had an ectopic pregnancy, which occurs when a fertilized egg grows outside the uterus. It can lead to life-threatening bleeding.

"The egg was about to burst, so she ended up going to emergency surgery and they ended up saving her and preventing a lot of what could've been done," Ryan said. "A trainer on our team, Justin Maher, telling my wife to go to the ER at 1 a.m. could've saved her life - or saved a lot of internal bleeding there. That's the type of organization we have here."

Ryan noted that Ashley is "recovering well" and said he's grateful to the Giants organization.

Ryan joined the Giants in August, which reunited him with head coach Joe Judge, whom he knew from his time with the New England Patriots from 2013-16.

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