Olympics

[Lynlw]

Hi, I don't know if everyone knowsthis , but Shaun White, who got gold in the snowboard 1/2 pipe was born w/ TOF and had 2 heart surgeries when he was little, he also is a skateboarder and is the only athlete, to compete in both the summer and winter X games. Lyn

[Georgia]

Kewl. I saw he won the halfpipe. Darn CNN - they post that stuff before it's on TV and I never learn to stay off the site until I've watched the games.

Hope that kid isn't on coumadin. The way he flies is something else. Do most tof kids have mechanical valves?

[Lynlw]

most of the kids I know have tissue. I'm pretty sure he's not on coumadin, since he also was a stuntman at the age of 10, Lyn

[Karlynn]

That's very cool! And makes me think of the HBO movie I just saw, "Something the Lord Made". The first heart surgeries were performed on TOF babies. We've come a long way!

[knightfan2691]

Very cool! Thanks for posting this here, too, Lyn :).

Hmm....guess I know what I need to do to "get the babes" (according to Shawn, that is) ... get onto the Olympic team ;).

He he he



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[aussigal]

EXCELLENT...and I was just watching the winter Olympics too cool down due to our sudden arrival of a heat-wave...

this is the sort of stuff my hubby and boys need to see and know, that there is life after AVR!;) :D ...

[Mary]

Very cool! Thanks for posting this here, too, Lyn :).

Hmm....guess I know what I need to do to "get the babes" (according to Shawn, that is) ... get onto the Olympic team ;).

He he he

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Cort,
I don't think you have to get onto an Olympic team; just buy yourself a snowboard, and hang out with the boarders!:)

[tommy]

NBC said last night that the Italians call Shaun White "The Flying Tomato" . It sounds better in Italian, I guess.:rolleyes:

[Georgia]

"pomodoro volente." I guess it's marginally better in Italian.

[knightfan2691]

Mary,

It can't be THAT easy.....


...could it?

;)