WEBVTT

00:20.540 --> 00:22.540
And could you describe your road to

00:22.540 --> 00:25.280
recovery ? Yeah . I had 44 rounds of

00:25.290 --> 00:29.220
chemo . Um I was up in

00:29.220 --> 00:32.010
Port smith for a week and then they

00:32.010 --> 00:35.150
moved me down to leam off it for the

00:35.160 --> 00:37.160
rest of the three rounds . And then

00:37.160 --> 00:40.080
after that I had the testicular surgery ,

00:40.090 --> 00:41.960
abdominal surgery , and the lung

00:41.960 --> 00:44.860
surgeries . So how many surgeries did

00:44.860 --> 00:47.130
you have ? I've had two . But one of

00:47.130 --> 00:50.390
them had testicular surgery and down

00:50.390 --> 00:52.980
surgery was the one and the long

00:52.980 --> 00:56.270
surgeries were pretty much on the

00:56.270 --> 00:59.120
sides . All of them took about eight

00:59.120 --> 01:02.440
hours each . Mhm . Yeah .

01:04.030 --> 01:06.360
How did you discover that you had kids ?

01:06.370 --> 01:09.180
My sergeant noticed a big old big lump

01:09.180 --> 01:12.120
on my neck and he told me I had to go

01:12.120 --> 01:15.220
get checked out at medical . When you

01:15.220 --> 01:18.640
went to medical process , they looked

01:18.640 --> 01:20.807
at it , they did a biopsy to it . They

01:20.807 --> 01:24.770
thought it was lymphoma . At first , a

01:24.770 --> 01:27.170
few days later they moved me up . They

01:27.170 --> 01:29.059
told me I had cancer , lymphoma ,

01:29.059 --> 01:31.690
cancer , lymphoma . And then when they

01:31.690 --> 01:33.690
moved me up the Portsmouth they did

01:33.690 --> 01:35.746
their own biopsy and found out I had

01:35.746 --> 01:39.340
the statistical 12 , I had four rounds

01:39.350 --> 01:43.090
of Chemo . Then I had one week up in

01:43.090 --> 01:46.890
Portsmouth , 3 , 3 rounds in

01:47.440 --> 01:51.100
Tampa florida liam off it . Then I

01:51.100 --> 01:53.560
had abdominal surgery , testicular

01:53.560 --> 01:57.200
surgery For 1 1 . The first surgery

01:57.200 --> 02:00.120
took about eight hours . Then I had

02:00.130 --> 02:03.370
long surgeries , which took another

02:03.370 --> 02:07.010
eight hours . Yeah . Uh How did you get

02:07.420 --> 02:10.210
my sergeant noticed a big a lump on my

02:10.220 --> 02:12.870
left side of my neck . And then the

02:12.880 --> 02:16.420
process medical . Yeah , they pretty

02:16.420 --> 02:18.940
much just did a biopsy . Thought it was

02:18.940 --> 02:22.760
lymphoma . And then pour smith

02:22.880 --> 02:26.310
did their own biopsy and

02:26.540 --> 02:28.930
look search and they found one of my

02:28.930 --> 02:32.880
testicle . Mhm . And what are

02:32.880 --> 02:34.991
your personal goals here in the gas ?

02:35.640 --> 02:38.340
Try to make it to the games just to

02:38.340 --> 02:40.396
make it . And how do you feel you've

02:40.396 --> 02:43.550
done ? I've I didn't I think I did

02:43.550 --> 02:46.540
pretty good because I'm doing shooting .

02:46.540 --> 02:49.170
I did cycling , shooting and the

02:49.170 --> 02:51.920
swimming of course The cycling I did

02:51.920 --> 02:55.350
about for the first time , 18 miles . I

02:55.350 --> 02:58.250
did about two hours , 17 minutes . Then

02:58.250 --> 03:01.960
shooting I got like 189 and uh

03:02.640 --> 03:06.320
So you did . I did 53

03:06.330 --> 03:09.740
which I got about 45 seconds or 44

03:09.740 --> 03:12.350
seconds . And then I did 50 back ,

03:12.360 --> 03:15.700
which I got 58 seconds . Is this your

03:15.710 --> 03:19.400
first games ? Yes . What would you have

03:19.400 --> 03:21.400
to say to people who are gonna come

03:21.400 --> 03:23.400
here next year for the first time ?

03:23.440 --> 03:26.260
Okay . It'll be tough . But listen ,

03:26.270 --> 03:28.390
mainly listen to the coaches , they

03:28.390 --> 03:30.390
know what they're talking about and

03:30.390 --> 03:33.880
they'll help you a lot a lot . And

03:33.890 --> 03:36.130
what's the best advice you've received

03:36.140 --> 03:40.080
coming to the game ? The best advice

03:40.080 --> 03:42.200
I got was to keep pushing through

03:42.200 --> 03:46.190
everything . Favorite

03:46.190 --> 03:49.080
part was for me was swimming . I'm

03:49.080 --> 03:51.340
actually kind of good at swimming . The

03:51.350 --> 03:53.670
cycling , I'm not that good at . It

03:53.670 --> 03:55.948
just kills your legs and back and then .

03:56.140 --> 03:58.307
But the swimming , I've had about four

03:58.307 --> 04:00.473
months of training already for it from

04:00.473 --> 04:04.290
Lindsay from the war program , so she's

04:04.290 --> 04:06.560
taught me a lot of different strokes

04:06.560 --> 04:10.420
and stuff like that outside of the

04:10.960 --> 04:14.190
No , it's kind of a thing , yeah ,

04:14.200 --> 04:16.240
Lindsay taught me a lot , a lot of

04:16.240 --> 04:19.620
swimming , and then um have you done

04:19.620 --> 04:23.440
much with competitive sports ? Uh Yes ,

04:23.770 --> 04:27.660
but not with the Marine Corps , how is

04:27.660 --> 04:29.382
this different from your other

04:29.382 --> 04:31.271
experience , with the competitive

04:31.271 --> 04:34.380
support ? Uh It's different because

04:34.540 --> 04:36.762
they're a lot more stricter with them .

04:37.440 --> 04:39.700
Mhm . And how does this help a unique

04:39.700 --> 04:41.160
cohesion and morale ? And

04:43.040 --> 04:45.207
because we're all cheering , we're all

04:45.207 --> 04:47.040
doing the same thing , We're all

04:47.040 --> 04:49.207
cheering for the people . Some some of

04:49.207 --> 04:51.262
them are blind , some of them triple

04:51.262 --> 04:53.429
amputees , double amputees , and we're

04:53.429 --> 04:55.762
all doing the same stuff and they don't ,

04:55.762 --> 04:57.873
they're doing it just as fast hours ,

04:58.700 --> 05:00.050
Brother Sean ,

05:06.340 --> 05:10.120
Oh , please exit the

05:10.120 --> 05:11.960
water this time

05:27.550 --> 05:30.750
Freestyles , because when I look at my

05:30.760 --> 05:32.360
time at 44 ,

05:32.540 --> 05:35.250
I can't .

05:39.180 --> 05:39.570
Yeah ,