It just got really bad. I honestly like don't really remember that much, but looking

back it's like man I was sick. And through that whole time you still were training and you obviously you competed in the games again in 2016.

Yeah and I can't say it was the healthiest thing to do but it like Cross Fit is what is like what got me through this disease and like this

transplant and I couldn't live without it so I just do what I could of course like

lighter weights because I weighed like 115 pounds.

So lighter weight I did what I could and it was definitely hard.

There's a lot of crying, a lot of emotions just because I was so used to lifting these weights and going this fast but I couldn't do that anymore.

So that's when I realized okay something wrong like it's progressing fast and it's a slow disease but like in

that last year it was fast. Yeah.

This is episode number 98 with Sydney Sullivan.

Welcome to pursuing health.

Welcome to pursuing health. I'm Julie Fushe, Family Medicine resident and former Cross-Vit Games athlete.

Here I bring to you information and inspiration from experts and everyday individuals for how to use lifestyle to maximize health.

Thank you so much for joining me. Now let's get started with this week's episode.

Well hello there and welcome back to pursuing health. In this

episode I got to sit down with a very special lady named Sydney Sullivan. At just

15 years old Sydney won her teen division at the Crossit Games back in 2015.

And at that time, very few knew that Sydney was also fighting a serious chronic disease called

Type 2 juvenile autoimmune hepatitis.

This is a rare disease where her body's own immune system began to attack her liver.

Sydney continued to use Crosspit as a way to maintain her strength and her health, but by the 2016 Cross Fit Games, it became very apparent that her health was rapidly declining.

She would eventually go on to have a live donor liver transplant from her brother Tommy.

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