“I'm staying here until I get a heart,” he said in a text message to The Associated Press on Wednesday night.
Half of his siblings have the same condition — as did his father, who died at 54, when Scot was 16.
Photos You Should See View All 15 Images“That was an immediate wake-up call," Pollard said in a recent telephone interview.
He was a contestant on the 32nd season of “Survivor,” where he was voted out on Day 27 with eight castaways remaining.
“They all agree that more ablations isn’t going to fix this, more medication isn’t going to fix that,” Pollard said.
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