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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: BB on December 07, 2007, 04:31:31 AM
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YIkes:(:
http://www.ironmind.com/ironcms/morenewsv6.php?id=2268#2268 .
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Shit.
It's always congenital.
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That sux.
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That's bad news, hope everything goes well.
Svend is a legend.
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Yep, Svend is a commentator on the World's Strongest Man contest in the USA - thought he was looking a bit yellow in the face, now I know why.
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Shit.
It's always congenital.
so true.
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It's always congenital.
;D
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Whats even more pathetic is their are weekend gym rats that will face the same thing some day. At least Sven won $10k and a plastic trophy for his kidneys
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Svend “Viking” Karlsen attacks the axle at the 2004 Arnold strongman contest. His kidneys have failed, but Viking sounds great, said he feels well, and he already has three donors lined up, offering him a kidney. Randall J. Strossen, Ph.D. photo.
Sounds grim, but if you talked to Svend, you’d think he was just having another day.
“It’s nothing,” he said. “I knew it was coming, so it is a relief.”
Explaining how ill he got just before he was hospitalized - “throwing up and terrible headaches” - Svend said now that the dialysis has cleaned him out, he feels terrific. “Some friends warned me, ‘Now you will get skinny,’ but I gained three kilos,” Svend said, reporting his current body weight at a Viking-like 133 kg.
Svend is scheduled for a kidney transplant some time between the end of February and the middle of July, and since one of the people who has offered a kidney is Lene, his wife, Svend said that Norway’s Strongest Man and the Viking Power Challenge would have to be held before the surgery, since both he and wife would be recovering for about four weeks if Lene is the donor.
So, for right now, it’s dialysis three times a week, and the positive attitude that makes Svend Karlsen say, “The Viking will be back, stronger than ever.”
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Since he was a lifetime natural, it was probably just genetic.
Same thing happened with Dim, Wheeler, and all the other chaps.
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Since he was a lifetime natural, it was probably just genetic.
Same thing happened with Dim, Wheeler, and all the other chaps.
:D
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Whats even more pathetic is their are weekend gym rats that will face the same thing some day. At least Sven won $10k and a plastic trophy for his kidneys
he could call himself strongest man in the world at some point, possibly worth a kidney?
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I hear he's planning legal action against the folks at Advil.
Hopefully he'll do well and get his tranplant. Dude's a legit hellraiser.
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I hope Viking Power recovers.
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It couldn't be that he max dosed anabolics, clen and whatever else, ignored his blood pressure which caused renal failure? No, couldn't be that. The dude was always pink whenever I saw him--sure sign of high uncontrolled BP
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Lucky getting the transplant right away instead of lifetime of dialysis.
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I hear he's planning legal action against the folks at Advil.
Hopefully he'll do well and get his tranplant. Dude's a legit hellraiser.
Hahahaha... him and Tom Prince should file a joint legal suit!