Miami – After keeping the case private for several months, Miami Heat Icon Dwayne Wade revealed on her podcast this week that she was removed from her kidney on December 18, 2023.
In October, a picture of health appeared to be honored with a statue of his equality on the stairs of the Cassia Center, Wade revealed on his “The Whi with Dwayne Wade” podcast that his 40% of his right kidney was removed during that process. Was given.
Wade said during his podcast episode, “My own journey for that surgery, I think this was the first time my family, my father, my children, they saw me weak.” “That moment was probably the weakest point ever in my life.”
Wade, 43, said that he was told that the tumor could not be biopsy, so surgery was required.
“I had a personal decision to make, and what it was,” if it is cancer, if it is a tumor, it is cyst cancer, on your kidney, you are 41 years old, you probably need surgery because This is something that needs to be removed, it does not spread, “Wade related.
Wade said that the kidney screening was part of an examination that he felt that he needed at the age of 40.
“I went to get myself out, turned 40, and I went in and I was so, ‘Doctor, I want to know everything about my body, head to foot. What I feel, I have found some stomach issues.
Wade said that his father’s health problems decided to be active.
“Thank God that I did surgery, because the tumor was cancer,” he said. “So I have a kidney, and I have another kidney that is 60 percent. They took 40 percent of my kidney to ensure that they can all can overcome cancer.”
Wade said that he is now cancer -free.
Prior to the arrival of the Wade, another heat player with a retired jersey by the franchise, fell from kidney disease, was disappeared from a wide time and finally returning to summer and sharing the team in the 2006 NBA Championships. Earlier a kidney was passing through a transplant. With Wade.
Wade, who is now a minority owner of Utah Jazz, said he consulted with mourning, now about a heat executive, health intimidation.