From Soccer to Sick Coma and Multiple Amputations

Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories

Bleav + Law Enforcement Talk - John J Wiley

True Crime, News, Politics, News Commentary, Documentary, Society & Culture, Education, Law Enforcement, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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From Soccer to Sick Coma and Multiple Amputations. His Life and Health After. In college athletics, discipline, endurance, and mental toughness are often seen as the ultimate measures of success. For Scott Martin, those qualities weren’t just part of the game, they defined his life. A former college athlete turned successful college soccer coach, Martin had built his identity around performance, leadership, and resilience.

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0:00.0	He was a successful college athlete and coach.
0:04.0	He was suddenly stricken with Flushing's disease, had multiple amputations, five months in a hospital, and immediately returned back to work.
0:13.3	Lessons learned and how he built his new life after.
0:16.7	Welcome to the Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show.
0:20.0	In the Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show, we are joined
0:22.4	by special guests talking about their experiences, their realities of investigating crimes.
0:28.5	Plus, those have experienced horrendous trauma, police, first responders, military, and victims
0:33.3	of crimes share their stories. Hi, I'm John Jay Wiley. In addition to being a broadcaster, I'm also a retired police sergeant.
0:40.9	Be sure to check out our website, LETRadio.com.
0:44.4	And also, like us on Facebook, search for the Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show.
0:49.9	Do you want to be a guest on Law Enforcement Talk, Redis show, and podcast?
0:54.0	It's really quite simple.
0:55.4	And before you get into this notion that I'm not a cop, I wasn't a cop, I don't have
1:01.7	something contribute.
1:03.7	Well, the show is about investigating crime.
1:06.4	That's one aspect of it from the real life perspective of those who did it.
1:11.3	And then it's also about trauma, how trauma impacted them.
1:16.4	Often crime-based, but not always.
1:19.3	Our guests quite often are law enforcement officers, other first responders, military,
1:24.6	victims of crime, their spouses or survivors, talking about how trauma impacted them, what happened, how it affected their lives, and how they rebuilt their lives after. If you want to be a guest, just contact me. It's really simple. Send an email to J-A-Y at L-E-T-Radio.com. That's J-A-Y at L-E-T-Radio.com or go to L-E-T-Radio.com and the contact us page, and you can get me right there as well. Joining us from Wisconsin, we have Scott Martin on the Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show. Scott, it was a college athlete. I'd say he still is because I'm not an athlete. He was suddenly stricken with flushing disease, which we'll talk about.
2:03.6	He did five months in a hospital, had numerous amputations, I'd say.
2:08.4	And he immediately returned to work, a mistake I would make as well.
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