LaVar Ball opened up about having his proper leg amputated, revealing in an essay revealed Tuesday in SLAM that diabetes issues led docs to take away a part of his limb.
Within the prolonged piece, Ball, 57, defined what occurred to him that led to the surgical procedure, saying issues began round January, he went beneath the knife three completely different instances and needed to get 4 transfusions.
Ball, who has three sons, NBAers Lonzo and LaMelo, and hooper and rapper LiAngelo, acquired an an infection on his foot that began to unfold by means of the blood as Ball had not been “paying attention to my diabetes.”
Initially, docs solely minimize off a few toes after which his foot earlier than in the end telling him that they wanted to amputate once more, this time virtually knee-high, which had taken its toll on the eldest Ball.
“It made me think, ‘Man, just kill me and let me go about my business.’ It made me think that maybe it’s time for me to shut it down,” Ball wrote in SLAM.
However the 57-year-old credited his sons for serving to push him by means of the darkish ideas and serving to persuade him to maintain combating.
“I’m the Big Baller. I’m hard to kill,” Ball wrote. “But I must admit that my boys kept me rolling. Cause a couple of times, I was like, ‘I can’t do no more blood transfusions. I can’t do no more operations. I’m just ready to shut it down. It’s enough for me.’ But I’m here for a bigger purpose.”
Ball wrote within the SLAM article that he wished to get a message throughout to those that they wanted to care for their well being.
“From my experience the last couple months, I want to get in people’s heads the importance of taking care of your health — especially Black people, because sometimes we’re not trying to go to the hospital, we will try to sleep it off or say, Yeah, we’ll get to it later. And sometimes it’s a little more serious than what you think,” he wrote.
Ball has appeared in good spirits in posts on social media, joking round concerning the scenario and making the perfect of what has occurred.
