Ben Askren
Admits to Feeling Sorry For Himself in Hospital …
Never Smoked One Cigarette!!!
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Ben Askren says he let the medical challenges he’s faced over the last month affect him … admitting he’s felt sorry for himself — but, now, that’s all over.
The MMA standout posted a video from a hospital bed Saturday morning … giving fans another update on his condition and putting into context just how quickly his health has deteriorated.
Askren shared a journal entry written by a friend of the family who wrote on Father’s Day that doctors planned to examine him for a potential lung transplant … that was less than a month ago, and now BA has two new lungs.
Ben says he did let himself get down in the dumps during this process … mostly because he never smoked cigarettes or marijuana — and, yet he suddenly needed a pretty major surgery.
But, Askren realizes now that isn’t a productive way to think … and, he promises fans he won’t pity himself anymore.
As we told you … Askren underwent a double lung transplant at the end of last month — and, he provided an update on his condition earlier this week.
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Askren talked in that clip about how his heart stopped for 20 seconds at one point … and he doesn’t remember anything from the past month.
He’s on the road to recovery now, though… and, he’s solely focused on the blessing of being alive.