Former NBA star Chris Bosh is opening up about a recent health scare that saw him wake up covered in blood.
“I woke up covered in my own blood,” Bosh, 41, said in an emotional Instagram video shared on Wednesday, February 25. “It was crazy, it was fast, it was instant, there was no warning … I didn’t have any time to prepare for it.”
While the two-time NBA champion didn’t divulge the exact details of his health scare, he said that he fell to the floor while getting ready for a date with his wife, Adrienne, with whom he shares five children.
“The next thing you know, I was on the ground. I won’t get into specifics, but you can kind of see I’m still recovering,” he continued. “I’m not gonna try to hide that one in case I look different, but it was a scary thing.”
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“I’m lucky. I came back,” Bosh said elsewhere in the video. “It was just darkness. It wasn’t anything else. I went to the darkness, I came back. I have no recollection, I have no memory other than coming back here.”
Bosh said the scary incident had given him a renewed perspective on life, encouraging his followers to be bold in following their dreams.
“It made me really have a different outlook on life and how things go, what we do for ourselves, what we do for our family, how we live our lives. No matter what it is, make sure you don’t wait,” he shared. “That’s the thing that I get [from this]. Don’t wait to take action because it could come fast, it could come quick. … I’m lucky to be alive, and I feel great about that, and now I’m thinking about how I live my day-to-day life. That’s really it.”
“Don’t wait,” he advised. “Don’t wait to take action. You might be wanting to get a promotion, you might want to try out for the team, you might want to go on that vacation. It might be so many different things that people want to do, that we want to do, that we never do, so that’s what I get from all of this. Don’t wait for it.”
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Gabrielle Union, the wife of Bosh’s former Miami Heat teammate Dwyane Wade, commented on his post, “Praying for you CB! Sending big ❤️ and mighty 🙏🏾.”
Former NBA point guard Nate Robinson wrote, “Praying for you bro… been through life changing health issues myself brother GODSPEED.”
In February 2015, Bosh was benched for the remainder of the 2014-15 NBA season due to a blood clot in one of his lungs. The Basketball Hall of Famer’s career effectively came to an end the following year when another blood clot was discovered in his leg. Despite attempts to make a comeback, by 2019, he decided to retire.
“That part of my life is over,” Bosh said in 2019 during an appearance on “The Bill Simmons Podcast,” per Sports Illustrated.
He added, “That has been a tough thing to deal with, but I’m good, which has taken a long time [for me to accept]. … I could have kept playing. But man, that time has passed. I’ve made the decision not to pursue it anymore.”
