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Eagle boys basketball coach Cody Pickett has returned to his team after doctors discovered a 70% blockage in one of his arteries, which Pickett called “a silent killer.” Originally planning on open-heart surgery, a viral Facebook post led Pickett back to the University of Washington, where he still holds several passing records, for a hard-to-place stent procedure.
March 6, 2022
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“I’m blessed. I’m very, very blessed,” Pickett told The Press. “I went from a guy that, a couple of months ago, was just going to get a routine checkup to, ‘Hey, maybe we have a problem’ to, ‘My gosh, I’m going to have to have open heart surgery.’ I’m so thankful I was able to go see Dr. Lombardi at the University of Washington and get that stent put in.”