Former NBA star Nate Robinson suffers from kidney failure

In a game stuffed with giants, when 5′ 9″ Nate Robinson made it to the NBA, he gave hope to others who won’t fit the everyday look expected of somebody his size. His fight to make it to the professionals is nothing just like the one he’s currently fighting, trying to search out a alternative kidney so he can proceed living.

Robinson gave an intensive interview with intimately his final battle: living with kidney failure. The 40-year-old former New York Knicks player said that when he played NBA basketball (from 2005 to 2015), he suffered from hypertension, and team doctors tried to warn him concerning the dangers of not keeping his blood pressure under control. There were times when his blood pressure was so high that doctors tried to forestall him from playing. But as a substitute of heeding the warning, his approach was to inform them to stop calling it because even when it was high, he would still go on the court to perform his duties.

In 2006, the previous guard was diagnosed with kidney disease. Doctors warned him that his kidneys would probably stop working after he turned thirty, but he didn’t care for himself as he was advised. Now he’s in search of a alternative kidney.

His way of considering? “I felt like I was Superman. I never thought I would get sick.”

Everything modified in 2018 when his kidneys stopped working. But as a substitute of coping with them, he delayed treatment. In 2020, he contracted Covid-19 while attending a basketball tournament during which his son was playing in Philadelphia.

“When I got home to Seattle, I went straight to the hospital,” he said. “It was bad, bro. I used to be within the hospital for per week. My body, my insides just… stopped working and shit.

“They told me I might as well start dialysis today. “‘Your kidneys are working too hard; They are getting worse as we talk. The only way you’ll get out of here alive is to start dialysis. This is all I have left.”

Robinson undergoes routine dialysis to do the work his kidneys can now not do effectively. He modified his weight loss plan; he doesn’t eat processed or junk food, he only eats fresh fruit, vegetables and lean meat.

“What we eat can kill us. This may cause illness or health. Real fruits and vegetables from the earth can heal you.”

The same fight that got him to the NBA is identical mindset he must maintain because the seek for a alternative kidney continues.

“I have to hold on. I want to live the next 40 years: being a grandpa, hanging out with my kids’ kids, taking them to the gym, telling them stories from when I played in the NBA, around “Bron and Kob” and all those guys. I have to fight for it.”