LAST EDITED ON 10-03-15 AT 07:34 PM (EST)

Don't look if you don't want to know...This fact happened and is well known around the boards but I thought it deserved a thread for discussion**
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I will say that there are rumored to be no medivac's. But, there is a case for one of our contestants to be pulled from the game. So, the question becomes was he pulled from the game, or from the group of boots that had already left the game?
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Terry Dietz's son, 16 year old Danny, had what he thought was a bronchitis. He went to the Dr. and was given antibiotics. His fever went away, but he was still very short of breath. He returned back to the Dr. and they did a chest X/R and saw that his heart was extremely enlarged. His ejection fraction was 8%, and anything less than 50% is considered heart failure. He went to a Children's Hospital near them in Connecticut, and they immediately transferred him to Boston Children's Hospital. Turns out he had some kind of genetic predisposition that identified his own heart as foreign, so his body attacked his own heart. They treated him with medication at first, and that failed, so they then inserted a Left Ventricular Assist Device which pumped his blood for his heart. This would be in place until he could be matched for a heart transplant. He got his heart transplant on 9/11 and as far as I can tell, he's doing great.

Danny fell ill around June 17 or 18, I believe, maybe a day sooner? He was pictured in the hospital on FB on June 19. Terry was pulled from the game at this time.

I have looked up the dates and if he makes it in the game, he could last up until episode 6. But these are just ball park dates, and don't know for sure. TC 5 is on June 15, so episode 6 would be during June 16, 17, 18.