Shaun White: My open heart surgeries | Forward Progress

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0:55Tell about the six-inch scar that you have in the center of your chest. Oh, yeah. I mean, that was one of those things. I mean, I was born with a heart defect. It's a tetralogy of fallow. And, you know, I had a couple open-heart surgeries when I was just a baby. I was about one years old. And it's just funny how things work out because I ended up being, you know, a little scared. You say it nonchalantly, but I mean, two open heart surgeries. Yeah. I mean, I don't feel it as much because I wasn't, you know, I don't remember it. It's one of those things where I see the scar and I see the photos and I can't even put two and two together.

1:35I'm like, how can that be me? I don't understand. And you still have metal left in your chest? I have leads for a pacemaker, which is interesting because in my sport, you know, There's bumps and bruises and there's concerns, but I can't get MRIs because it's a very magnetic and electrical current that's going out. When you have open wires to your heart, it's not a good call. I'm like, come on, let's do it. Let's just roll the dice. What's the worst? Make it happen to my doctor. It's like, no. Please don't make us do this. What's the workaround on that? How do you get checked out then? It's a strange process.

2:11It's like a dye contrast CAT scan. So they pretty much, like, inject some dye, and then they go through the CAT scan and certain X-rays. And if the fluid gets into other areas, then you know that there's, like, a tear or something in the soft tissue. Because that's what MRIs show. It's, like, the cartilage. So, you know, recently I had this, like, weird shoulder injury and had to go in and do the whole process. But I'm used to it now. I mean, I was doing it since I was a young kid. But it's never held me back. It's never been one of those things where my parents were like, you can't do this because of this.

2:47Right. They just encouraged me. And from having that very scare, you know, big scare early on in life, and then me choosing the sport of skateboarding and snowboarding, you know. At the time, it was, you know, an outlaw sport. It was just like one of those things where, you know, this like wild group of guys were barely even allowed to be on the mountains. and even skateboarders were breaking into people's backyards to skate their dried-up pools in the summertime. I mean, it was this pretty wild sport. And my parents, not that they enjoyed those things, but they just supported me. They're like, you want to do it?

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