Hey, everybody. Welcome to The Dream Big Podcast. This is his so fun to be able to

connect with you guys each week. And then bring my friends on today, Lexia Latt. He is a guy

you're gonna like love. If you don't know about him already, you're gonna love him at the

end. He's been inspiring as a friend for gosh, years and years now. Lex, welcome to Dream

Big. Oh, man. Thank you, Bob. I appreciate it. I'm looking at the back of you. I was

rubbing you a little bit about a wall of shoes. How many shoes you got back there? There

has to be at least at least 90 probably. Okay. This is awesome. You know, when I was a Nike

athlete, they would send me shoes as well. I don't think so, man. Like kind of just getting

out of the chair feels like a big reach. Hey, yeah, tell us a little bit about you so people

can be introduced to you. Like you're just such a household word around here, but I recognize

some people don't know you. You're a paralympian. You're like record holder. Like tell us about

you. Yeah. So I am. So I'm here in San Diego. As you know, I've been living here in

Trula Vista for the past like 14, 15 years, but I'm from the East Coast, from North Carolina,

from Raleigh. And as a kid in Raleigh, I was doing everything that you can imagine an eight-year-old

child doing, playing the video games, riding bicycles, playing outside with friends. And there

was one day that I could come home from school and started having issues with my eyes. Just kind

of like a random occurrence. And that caused me to talk to my mom and say, hey, like this is going

on, things are looking blurred, they're looking faint. And we took some water. We washed my eyes out,

which made it feel better, but it didn't clear my sight any. So the next thought was to go to the

doctor, get an examination done, see what the issue was. And so they diagnosed me with recurrent

retina detachments, which basically means that every time that they would go into the operating room

to reattach my retinas, which had detached, they would, for some reason, three or four weeks later,

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