NBA veteran Chris Bosh opens up about sudden health scare: 'I'm lucky to be alive'

Chris Bosh has revealed he is “lucky to be alive” after experiencing a sudden health scare that left him with no memory of the incident.

The 41-year-old NBA Hall of Famer shared details on social media, explaining that the episode occurred without warning while he was preparing to go on a date with his wife. He said he woke up covered in blood and had no recollection of what happened.

“So I woke up covered in my own blood. It was crazy. It was fast. It was instant. There was no warning. I didn’t have any time to prepare for it. I was getting ready to go on a date with my wife and the next thing you know, I was, I was on the ground.

 

 

 

 

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“I won’t get into specifics, but you can kind of see I’m still recovering. I’m not gonna try to hide that one in case I look different, but it was a scary thing and it came fast ... I'm lucky I came back. It was just darkness, it wasn’t anything else. I went to the darkness, I came back. I have no recollection. I have no memory other than coming back here. So, don’t wait.”

Bosh did not disclose the cause of the incident. He previously saw his 2014–15 season ended by a blood clot in his lungs, and in 2017 the NBA ruled he was medically unfit to continue playing. He retired in 2019.

Reflecting on the experience, Bosh urged others to act decisively in life. “Don’t wait to take action. You might be wanting to get a promotion, you might want to try out for the team, you might want to go on that vacation. It might be so many different things that people want to do, that we want to do that we never do. So that’s what I get from all this. Don’t wait for it.”