Paralympian Tatyana McFadden feared her career was “over” after she was diagnosed with a blood clotting disorder in February 2017.
The seven-time gold medal winner, who is known as the world’s best female wheelchair racer of all time, spoke EXCLUSIVELY with HollywoodLife and detailed her “really scary” experience as she underwent surgery to treat the problem.
The athlete said, “The scary part was well was 1) the blood clot, and 2) where they went in for surgery they couldn’t break the clot apart, and then 3) when I was on medicine, it wouldn’t stop spreading through my body and it kept coming back.
We did heparin and we did the shots, and I was on a dose that doubled my body weight. That was really scary, when the clots kept coming back.” “
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