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LaVar Ball opened up about having his right leg amputated, revealing in an essay published Tuesday in SLAM that diabetes complications led doctors to remove part of his limb.<\/p>\n
In the lengthy piece, Ball, 57, explained what happened to him that led to the surgery, saying things started around January, he went under the knife three different times and had to get four transfusions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ball, who has three sons, NBAers Lonzo and LaMelo, and hooper and rapper LiAngelo, got an infection on his foot that started to spread through the blood as Ball had not been \u201cpaying attention to my diabetes.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Initially, doctors only cut off a couple of toes and then his foot before ultimately telling him that they needed to amputate again, this time almost knee-high, which had taken its toll on the eldest Ball.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt made me think, \u2018Man, just kill me and let me go about my business.\u2019 It made me think that maybe it\u2019s time for me to shut it down,\u201d Ball wrote in SLAM.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But the 57-year-old credited his sons for helping push him through the dark thoughts and helping convince him to keep fighting.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m the Big Baller. I\u2019m hard to kill,\u201d Ball wrote. \u201cBut I must admit that my boys kept me rolling. Cause a couple of times, I was like, \u2018I can\u2019t do no more blood transfusions. I can\u2019t do no more operations. I\u2019m just ready to shut it down. It\u2019s enough for me.\u2019 But I\u2019m here for a bigger purpose.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ball wrote in the SLAM article that he wanted to get a message across to people that they needed to take care of their health.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom my experience the last couple months, I want to get in people\u2019s heads the importance of taking care of your health \u2014 especially Black people, because sometimes we\u2019re not trying to go to the hospital, we will try to sleep it off or say, Yeah, we\u2019ll get to it later. And sometimes it\u2019s a little more serious than what you think,\u201d he wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ball has seemed in good spirits in posts on social media, joking around about the situation and making the best of what has happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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