Scot Pollard, a former NBA huge man who grew to become a cult hero due to his funky hairstyles and look on “Survivor,” is in want of a coronary heart transplant.
In new images his spouse, Daybreak Pollard, shared on Jan. 10, she stated the one-time NBA champion has been by way of a flurry of operations and assessments as he struggles from a genetic coronary heart difficulty stemming from a virus he contracted in 2021 — the identical method his father, Pearl Pollard, died 30 years in the past.
“3 failed coronary heart ablations, pacemaker/defibrillator, all of the medication and unwanted effects, coronary heart biopsies, coronary heart catheter assessments, CT/MRI scans, numerous viles of blood taken, ER journeys, myocarditis, pericarditis-all over the previous 3 years…and now coronary heart transplant listing,” Daybreak wrote on X.
“It’s an odd scenario to sit down right here and ponder for an undetermined period of time,” he advised the Indianapolis Star about needing a transplant. “The surgeon right here stated it’s like successful the lottery. We’d get fortunate subsequent week, subsequent month, subsequent yr. It could be longer. It’s like Tom Petty says: The ready is the toughest half.”
Pollard, 48, who performed 11 seasons within the NBA with 5 totally different groups, capping off his profession with a championship in Boston in 2008, guessed it had been three years since he had gone on a stroll together with his spouse in an interview with the paper.
Given his 6-foot-11 body, the previous heart wants a big man to offer the donation, a problem that his father additionally confronted.
Pollard has registered at three hospitals to combat these odds, together with Ascension St. Vincent in Indianapolis and the hospitals at Vanderbilt and the College of Chicago.
“The donations go regionally,” he says, “and so they’re not going to fly a coronary heart wherever. The guts received’t come to me – I’ve to go to the guts. Vanderbilt does extra (coronary heart transplants) than anybody within the nation, and the vary usually is a four-hour drive. They accepted me regardless that it’s 5 (hours to Nashville).
“I advised them my spouse will get me there in 4 if they offer me the decision.”
