LOL. I think I got a 24hr ban on YouTube once for calling him 'The Dutch Faget', but he actually seems really down-to-earth and honest. I've become a fan. He's not some Batesian mimic like Martyn Ford, always snarling like a retard and pretending to be tough. It's nice that he's managed to make the best out of a bad situation and found success. I enjoyed him in the new Reacher series.
I can´t hate on Olivier since he had such a rough childhood growing up.
Subject: Pectus Excavatum / Sunken Chest.Wauw 😅 The Dutch Giant mini-docu (link in bio) reached 800k views in only 5 days with a thumbs-up ratio of 98%!!
One question really stood out in the comments: ''what happened to your chest / how and who fixed it?''
1 on 1000 people is born with a Pectus Excavatum. This a condition which a person's breastbone is sunken into the chest, leaving a dent.
The cause of pectus excavatum is unknown, but it can run in a family (inherited). Most people don't realize they have it, because the dent is not that severe and therefore doesn't influence the person psychologically or doesphysical har m to organs.
For me it was different.
I was born with second most severe one known: 7cm deep! In the begin I found it pretty cool and unique: when lying down I could put a glass in it or food, very useful 😅. But people would stare endlessly at my chest (beaches etc.).
Eventually, when I was fully grown; it also became a physical harmful condition.
The heart is like a balloon.
The dent pushed my heart in for 20% of its volume.
As a result, while I was walking stairs I got easy out of breath while and squatting was a no go.
The surgery performed on me at the age of 23 is the so-called Nuss-bar procedure. A half-cricle shaped titanium bar is put under your breastbone and gets turned around; pushing the breastbone (7cm) to the front as where it should be.
When this bar is kept for 2-3 years and then removed, your ribs and breastbone will stay at the corrected possition.
This procedure causes immense stress on the ribs and the pain is equal to 8 broken ribs.
Recovery took me longer than others, because the dent was so severe.
I was 2 months on morphine and other painkillers, mostly lying on a bed, followed by 2 months of rehabilitation: walking and swimming.
After 4.5 months I was trying to push weights again in the gym, step by step.
Professor Hans Pilegard has done miracle work on me and yesterday he replied my email: "It would be a pleasure for me if you would suggest my name and you may too give my mail address (pilegaard@dadlnet.dk) for communication with people who are interested in correction of a pectus excavatum".
