“From a child up for as long as I can remember – strength! Strength was everything to me and to have it taken just like that frailty, weakness, everything you fought against so hard your entire life NOW is your life!”ĬT Fletcher struggled to go through everyday routineĪs a multiple-time world champion powerlifter, CT Fletcher had never felt the pain of being dependent on someone. Having challenged the limits for his entire life, Fletcher could not come to terms with the fact that everything he worked towards his entire life was on the verge of slipping away as his heart was functioning at 20 to 25 percent of its capacity.
To his disbelief, the doctors told him that a heart transplant was the only way to save him. I was a dead man,” CT Fletcher said.įletcher further stated that he was immediately taken to the emergency room. “Watching my youngest son Samson sit there right next to me, he looked me in the eyeballs and he told me, “Daddy, you’re not gonna die!” With tears rolling down my face, I looked back at him and said, “I’m sorry to disappoint you son.” I felt it. At the beginning of the video, CT Fletcher recalled the moment he suffered a heart attack. However, In January 2018, his heart stopped working but the pacemakers and defibrillators brought it back to life. In this throwback post, we revisit the documentary posted on CT Fletcher’s YouTube channel.ĬT Fletcher shares the gut-wrenching details of his heart conditionĪfter suffering a heart attack in 2017, CT Fletcher was told he would need a new heart to survive and was on a waiting list hoping to receive a new heart.
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He underwent life-saving open-heart surgery in 2005 and underwent a heart transplant surgery in May 2018 after almost one year of waiting since suffering a massive heart attack in mid-2017.Ī multi-part documentary series ‘Last Will & Testament’ directed by Corrado Caretto, captures the essence of CT Fletcher’s hard-fought battle to survive the biggest health scare of his life. Multi-faceted personality and powerlifting legend CT Fletcher is one person that inherited a heart condition that has severely impacted his life and put him on the verge of losing it all on more than one occasion.įletcher’s heart had taken a severe hit and he was disabled at 42 years of age in 2001. More often than not, it is our own abuse that leads to health complications that make us realize its value. We are all so caught up in pursuit of material things that we seldom admire the hereditary gift of a healthy body and care for it.
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