EPISODE 345: The Awe Inspiring Sidney Smith

Gritty Podcast

Brian Call

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Sidney Smith was born with Charcot-Marie-Tooth, a disease which causes structural foot damage and muscle wasting through the leg. Sid made the tough choice to have both his legs amputated rather than spend the rest of his life in a wheel chair. While in the hospital he decided if he ever got out of there, he was going to compete in an Ironman Triathlon. We talk about how it felt when he woke up and both his legs were gone. How life has changed since then and how he is giving back to help someone else receive a new prosthetic leg. Follow the link to find out how you can help. #LendALeg https://commitchange.com/tn/nashville/amputee-blade-runners/campaigns/sidney-smiths-marathon-runraiser

Watch the documentary film by v6.media and MTN OPS at MTNOPS.COM/SID

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0:00.0	The journey really started in the hospital. He told you that, okay, you can sit in a wheelchair
0:06.5	through S-Your-Life or you can get your legs taken off. You know, the Iron Man is the most
0:11.6	iconic race, 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike, and then the 26.2 mile run right after.
0:18.3	For some reason, I just felt compelled that if I can get out of this hospital, that's
0:23.1	what I want to do. So I just spent a lot of time in the rehab. It's sad because I've had people
0:29.6	tell me like, oh man, I couldn't do that. And I look at them and they have their legs and they're
0:34.8	able to walk just fine and I'm like, yeah, you could. You know, you can put down the cigarettes and
0:40.0	you could do a lot of things. All right, folks, welcome to the Gritty Bowman podcast. We're
0:46.8	back in the studio here and I'm here with Sydney Smith. And hopefully you guys listened to
0:53.4	the last episode we did where we kind of talked about the film that was produced recently in
1:01.1	partnership with Mountain Ops and V6. Media. Is it media? Yeah, V6 media. V6 media with Kobe
1:13.2	Kunrad. But I wanted to have you on the podcast because I wanted to dive more into your story.
1:21.7	You know, and having watched the little documentary film about you, there's just so much that they
1:26.9	can cover in a few minutes and it's very inspiring. But I want to get your real story here on the
1:32.6	podcast. That's a lot deeper than that. I think it's an amazing story. So let's get into that. So tell
1:40.2	me about this disease. What is it called? It's called charcoal Marie Tooth. Okay, so charcoal
1:46.8	Marie Tooth. And for those that are listening, Sydney is, you have this disease, which ultimately
1:56.2	resulted in the amputation of from the knee down of your both legs. And since that time,
2:06.9	you've been able to accomplish some pretty remarkable things in spite of this physical setback.
2:14.1	And you've got quite a story to tell. And so that just gives everyone some background that didn't
2:20.2	didn't listen to the other podcast we did. And so charcoal Marie Tooth or some people just for
2:27.7	short CMT CMT. Okay. Newsy televisions. Yeah, no down. So, so you have this disease. So you didn't
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