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🗓️ 21 September 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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0:00.0 | C13 originals. |
0:08.0 | All right, so we got some pictures here. |
0:11.0 | Let's see. This is you and me here. |
0:17.0 | I know you were the cutest baby. |
0:20.0 | Look at that little nose of ears. You were really adorable. |
0:25.0 | This is me and my mom Sylvia. |
0:29.0 | We're at my house in Texas. |
0:32.0 | She's here visiting me for my 29th birthday. |
0:35.0 | We're going through some of our old family photos. |
0:39.0 | I must have been maybe a week old. |
0:41.0 | Yes, yeah, you were like less than a month old and you had long legs. |
0:46.0 | He always were tall and unfortunately too thin because we found out that your heart wasn't working then. |
0:59.8 | I was born with something called a single ventricle congenital heart defect. |
1:05.0 | That meant that I only had one ventricle strong enough to pump blood through my body, |
1:10.6 | which also meant that I wasn't receiving enough oxygen. |
1:15.0 | I turned blue and was red my final rights. |
1:20.0 | Then I had an emergency surgery, which saved my life. |
1:25.0 | When I finally went home, my dad, Bill Crawford, decided he was going to treat me like any other kid. |
1:35.0 | And here I am on a little tiny roller coaster. I must be about three or four years old. |
1:40.0 | And dad was like that. He'd put me right on it and you know he'd encouraged me to do things and he would say you know I'm just going to let you do what you decide that you think you can handle and I think as a kid as a sick kid that was important to live like that and |
1:57.6 | I'm glad that he was supportive of me and he didn't treat me fragile. |
2:02.0 | He really didn't think that you should be treated like, you know, somebody with a disability at all. |
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