Yo today's Q-O-D is don't wait until you're dying to think about living.

Here we go. So, Welcome back to the quarter of the day show. I'm your host Sean Croxton and

Sean Croxton.com we got Camila Stevenson on this show today for another

throwback episode and today Camila is going to encourage you

to take control of your health

before it's too late.

Camila Stevenson is coming up.

The gun would go off.

Boom! And as fast as I could, I start running

and it felt as though I was skating through the air.

That was a familiar sound for me during my high school years.

It represented thoughts that I'd make it to the Olympics someday

and I was as qualified as any 16 year old girl could be.

I was going to wear that medal proudly around my neck and taste the success of the moment.

That is, until everything I love, which was my dream to run, started to

disappear day by day. Out of nowhere I started having these episodes where my heart would start pounding through my chest and I couldn't get my heart rate down.

I eventually started to vomit every day for over a year and a half straight due to an over pounding and irregular heartbeat.

When my health began to fail, a heavy sadness came over me because it was hard to run.

It eventually got so bad that I had to turn down all my full-rise scholarships to college and that was really hard. As I looked down at the

power of scholarships one day, tears ran down my face because of the pain of feeling like a failure and what I hope to be a clear future for me.

When I first shared this story, it came to me suddenly how I lost what I love the most

due to a bad diet.

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