From TOS Diagnosis to swimming once again at a toplevel. Jake Marcum shares his story.

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today we're going to take a little bit of a different angle we have with us an amazing young man named jake marcum who has been a swimmer for most of his life and jake has a great story to tell us about tos i want to welcome all our viewers thank you for coming again we really appreciate your support and jake good afternoon nice to see you again good afternoon it's great to talk to you again when did you start swimming jake uh i started swimming when i was about five years old my mom kind of got scared because i was i was the type of kid that would i had no fear and i'd go jump off the uh jump off the diving board in the deep end and not really and i didn't know how to swim and i wasn't afraid uh so she threw me in swimming lessons and i've been swimming ever since awesome now you've been swimming through high school doing really well for yourself yep i uh i swam for four years at the macaulay school in chattanooga tennessee and then i'm now in my third year in college i swam one year at indiana university and then i just finished up my second year at university of alabama a great place a great school so tell us what happened tell us your tos experience how it came on give us an idea of what you had to pursue and what you had to live through yeah so um i had just finished my junior year season it was april of my junior year i had i was named a high school allamerican in the winter from my high school season and i had a really good year i was being recruited by schools i had actually just gotten back from a couple recruiting trips and i i went to practice on a thursday and i noticed that my arm turns purple and i had no pain i had the oh the only thing that happened was my arm turned purple and um so i looked at it and i was like i just finished doing something really hard in practice and i was really hot and it was really hot in the pool also but i was i was like a little weirded out by it i didn't really understand what was going on but because there was no pain i didn't say anything about it um and i had lifted that morning and we did bench press in the morning so i thought maybe i was just like sore from that or something so then the next morning i went into practice and this was friday morning and we also had a lift and it was supposed to be dryland but we ended up lifting for part of it and we also ended up doing bench press again which is something that i think later down the road when i get to when i was diagnosed is something that contributed to that so i had no pain on friday my arm didn't turn purple everything was normal so i i kind of forgot about the thursday incident the weekend comes around saturday sunday nothing really is going on um sunday i committed actually to swimming college at indiana university so i wanted to take a really cool commitment picture so i went to um i went up on this mountain that we have um around where i live and i was taking the picture and something i've always been able to do is i'm able to pop my elbows i just like hold my arm out straight and i can like pop them and i couldn't do that and i felt some tightness and it was kind of bothering me and i was like i don't really understand why i can't do this i was getting really tight and this this was just your right side correct yes this is just on my right arm um so i didn't i didn't understand like why that was happening but once again because i was a swimmer and pain comes at a cost and it's something that i'm used to i didn't really say anything also um and then monday comes around and i went into practice in the morning and we were supposed to lift and i went to the trainer and i was like i can't lift like my shoulder really hurts and i had a lot of pain and i thought that it was just soreness from bench press i thought it was delayed muscle soreness from the two lifts on thursday and friday i thought that i was just hitting me um and so i was like okay can we just like stretch out that area and um maybe it'll feel better and i'll be able to swim in the afternoon and so uh so we did what is called a pec release where he dug into my pec minor to try to release the muscle because we thought that's where the tightness was and u