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Former Oakland University basketball player Sebastien Bellin, 37, who was injured in Tuesday's attack at the Brussels airport, talks to ABC's David Muir from his hospital bed.
“I just didn’t want my girls to grow up without a dad,” Bellin said on "Good Morning America," at times choking up. His wife and two young daughters live in Western Michigan.
He was standing at a ticket counter near a pharmacy at the airport when the explosion took place. He suffered shrapnel wounds to his legs and hips and was rushed by ambulance to a nearby hospital,where he was admitted to intensive care.
"I remember seeing an explosion, the first explosion near the pharmacy at the airport," he said. "I turned my head and I saw all these people running and when I got there, I think I blacked out for a little bit."
“The whole time I just told myself, ‘I’m gonna make it, I’m gonna make it, I’m gonna make it,’ ” Bellin said. “When I got into the ambulance I knew I was good. But until then, I had no idea.”
He said he thought about his 7-year-old daughter's tennis game.
"It's funny how many things you think of," he said. He said he was thinking " 'Man, I gotta get through this because she needs her coach.' . . . It's just some of the things that go through your head. "It seems so trivial, but you gotta get through those moments."
After graduating college in 2001, Bellin played professional basketball in Europe. Media reports say that he now works for a sports scouting agency.
Bellin's last pro team was the Gent Hawks in Belgium from August 2013 to February 2014, his LinkedIn profile says. He's now vice president of sales and business development for a firm called Keemotion in the New York City area. The company provides video technology to help clients improve coaching and team performance in sports.
He commutes between Europe, New York and Michigan
