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"They were going to amputate my legs, they didn't know if I was going to live."

His kidney's had failed, and he nearly died. No one knew at the time that Nathan had the sickle cell trait, a condition that affects as many as one in 500 African Americans. A lack of fluids in sickle cell patients can lead to rhabdomyolysis, a potentially lethal reaction by the body's muscles. The intense training of that day is thought to have brought on Nathan's attack.

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