Name: Jon Dorenbos on the Saints That Changed His Life
Uploaded: 2017-12-25T13:28:15.000Z
Duration: 6 min 19 s
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Congratulations, you got married since I saw you last.

OK, so you played for the Philadelphia Eagles.

You were traded to the New Orleans Saints.

Were you sad or were you happy to be traded to the Saints?

So I was like, hey, it is what it is, and just let me know.

And they said the New Orleans Saints want to trade

Which then means maybe Drew and I can do a piece for Ellen.

And so, OK, so I was excited to hear that.

You get a physical when you start a new team like that.

And the day after that, I finished my physical.

And he said, you a heart murmur, but it's not good.

And so we're going to send you to the hospital.

And you're going to get an echocardiogram.

And, I'll be honest with you, I was like, all right,

So I get to the hospital and I take my test.

And I was sitting in the locker room before practice.

I answer it and it was a surgeon and the cardiologist

and they said hey, we don't really know how to say this,

but long story short, you're never playing football ever

And you're going to be in emergency heart surgery pretty

So we're going to have you come back back down here and take

Basically, what I had is, as my heart was pumping blood out,

And right above that, you have an aorta, which is,

Well that was expanding like a water balloon.

And so your aorta should be about that big.

had you been hit in the chest on Monday Night Football,

the odds were far greater that you would die than live.

And so I said, holy cow, so my wife and I,

We talked to surgeons all over the country.

started with Dr. Bavaria at the University of Penn

How many weeks ago did you have open heart surgery?

you're just an incredibly inspiring human being

And my aunt and my grandmother raised me.

They said every time that they'd find a penny,

And I'm the guy that always finds my pennies

And I think that my aunt or grandma or somebody

will find the penny and think of somebody they love.

And I find out I'm having emergency open heart surgery.

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Jon Dorenbos on the Saints That Changed His Life

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