Douglass High School graduate overcomes surgeries to compete at state track and field meet
It has not been an easy road. It s a lot, Brady said after Friday s ceremony at Mizzou Arena. I ve really worked hard for this.
He resumed training for shot put only in January after being cleared to resume physical activity from back surgeries to correct severe curvature of his spine in 2019.
Before that, in 2018, was brain surgery to relieve him of uncontrollable movements associated with Tourette Syndrome. Brady revealed the pacemaker in his chest that is connected to a part of the brain called the thalamus. It s the same type of pacemaker that some Parkinson s patients have, he explained.