Nate Robinson, Three-Time Dunk Contest Champion, Still Waiting for a Kidney Transplant

Nate Robinsonformer NBA player who was three-time Dunk Contest championis still waiting for a transplant after announcing in April that “I don’t have long to live if I don’t get a kidney”.

He popular Kryptonatewho is 40 years old and played his last game in the NBA in 2016, gave an interview to ‘Mens Health’ while undergoing dialysis treatment in Seattle (United States).

“This shit is crazy. I just thank God for every day. Because it’s hard to even watch this,” Nate Robinson opens up to Tyler R. Tynes commenting on the physical degradation that both he and his fellow dialysis patients, a treatment in which he has been undergoing for four years, are suffering.

“The doctors told me that the only way I would get out of here alive is if I started dialysis. It was the only thing I had left,” he said.

Nate Robinson: “The NBA finished me”

Remembering his glory years in the NBA, the small and explosive 1.75 m basketball player. He acknowledges that “I felt like I was Superman. I never thought he would get sick. It was fun being up there…” I really felt like he could fly.”

Despite the health problems he suffered in his final years as a professional, Nate Robinson, who played while taking blood pressure medication, maintains that he did not retire because of his kidneys (which began to fail in 2018 and now only function 15 percent). %): “The NBA finished me.”

Vomiting, cramps, and difficulty breathing These are some of the side effects that dialysis causes.

“I want to stay alive for the next 40 years. I have to fight for it”

Nate Robinson, who shared his kidney problems in October 2022, hopes to soon be on the Washington state kidney transplant waiting list and eventually on the national list in the United States.

“I had a couple dreams about that shit (getting a donor for the transplant). It’s scary… I would hate for someone to give me that kidney and die to go through this. That would hurt me a lot. That someone has to die for me alive. I don’t know if I’m ready for it. In my dreams, my relatives give me a kidney and they all end up dying. That bothers me a little,” he explains.

Nate Robinson is clear about his future plans: “I’m like a kid at Disneyland. I have to stay. I want to stay alive for the next 40 years: be a grandfather, see my kids’ kids, take them to the gym, tell them the stories of when I was in the NBA with ‘Bron and Kob’ and all these guys. I have to fight for it.”

Nate Robinson, who was diagnosed in 2006, revealed his health problems in 2022

Nate Robinson learned in 2006, when he was playing for the New York Knicks, that he was suffering from kidney problems caused by his blood pressure.

In 2022, the popular ‘dunker’ shared his health problems with the public: “I am currently receiving treatment for kidney failure and have been dealing with it privately for the last four years. I am sharing this now because I want to be the voice of all those who have problems to talk about this disease, and unite for a greater cause: our health.

Nate Robinson’s NBA career

Throughout his NBA career Nathaniel Cornelius ‘Nate’ Robinson, who was selected by the Phoenix Suns with the 21st pick in the 2005 Draft after standing out with the University of Washington in the NCAA, played for the New York Knicks, Boston Celtics , Oklahoma City Thunder, Golden State Warriors, Chicago Bulls, Denver Nuggets, Los Angeles Clippers and New Orleans Pelicans.

2024-06-19 06:28:08
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