Ric Flair Opens Up About His Health Scare & How He Is Doing Now
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In a recent interview, WWE Hall Of Famer Ric Flair spoke about his recent health scare. Over the summer, Flair was hospitalized for weeks with an infection and heart related issues that almost cost The Nature Boy his life.
“I had ten days of life support, brother, that would wake anybody up,” Flair said. “I’m just lucky I’m here, I just kind of take each day, I don’t take anything for granted anymore. They gave me a 20 percent chance of living and somehow I made it through it.
“When I got out I only weighed 206 pounds, I lost 43 pounds. I couldn’t walk, I couldn’t even twist the top off a Gatorade bottle. I could stand on my legs, but I couldn’t walk, so I had to go to a rehab place for 20 days of physical rehab where they make you walk with a walker and then a cane and then you learn to walk by yourself. That took a while, and then I couldn’t drive a car. I ate anything in the world, but couldn’t gain any weight because all the food I was consuming was going towards repairing internal tissue that was ruined because when I went into the hospital my kidneys failed, I had respiratory heart failure and I had pneumonia all at the same time. Brother, I don’t drink anymore… The doctor told me if I ever had a drink again, I wouldn’t make it through another operation like that.”
He also said that he is feeling and doing much better now.
“I’m back, I feel good, I weigh 220 now. Everything is normal, I have to go to the doctor every other week.” He said he hasn’t been able to exercise or do any physical activity, which has been an adjustment that is still taking time for him to accept. But Flair is in good spirits and living one day at a time.
“As far as lifting weights and stuff like that, nothing for probably another month. It’s just a different way of life, I’m not used to living like this and I’m certainly not used to not having a drink by three o’clock (laughs). When I wasn’t working I used to start at 11 in the morning, are you kidding me?”
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