Dallas Lincoln alum and 11-time NBA All-Star Chris Bosh revealed on his social media that he recently had a significant health scare.
Bosh, whose NBA career ended prematurely due to a history of blood clots, said he collapsed and woke up in his own blood, but didn’t get into specifics of what exactly happened in the medical episode.
“I went to darkness and I came back,” he said. “I have no recollection. I have no memory other than coming back here.”
The 41-year-old Hall of Famer had visible bruising under his eyes in the video and gave his recollection of the incident.
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“So, I woke up covered in my own blood,” Bosh said. “It was crazy. It was fast. It was instant. There was no warning. I didn’t have any time to prepare for it. I was getting ready to go on a date with my wife. And 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. I’m not going to try to hide that one in case I look different. But it was a scary thing, and it came fast.”
Bosh was a member of Lincoln’s legendary 40-0 Class 4A state-title-winning team in 2002 that also won the USA Today National Championship. He was a very highly decorated athlete, claiming not just Dallas-area awards, but also received several national Player of the Year and All-American honors. He then spent one collegiate season at Georgia Tech before entering the 2003 NBA draft, where he was selected fourth overall by the Raptors.
The Dallas native said the health scare gave him a new perspective on life and how it should be lived.
“It made me really have a different outlook on life in how things go, what we do for ourselves, what we do for our family, how we live our lives,” he said.” And no matter what it is, make sure you don’t wait. That’s the thing that I get from this. Don’t wait to take action because it could come fast, it could come quick. And I’m lucky to be alive, and I feel great about that.
“Now, I’m thinking about how I live my day-to-day life. That’s really it. But don’t wait. 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. You might want to start a business. Don’t wait, just do it. You might hit the deck. I don’t know, I’m lucky. I came back. It was just darkness. It wasn’t anything else.”
Watch his full explanation he posted on his social media account below.
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