After the Colorado Buffaloes’ 35-21 loss against the TCU Horned Frogs on Oct. 4, Deion Sanders shared an update on his health status.
“Cat’s out of the bag, all right. I think I’ve got more blood clots,” Sanders explained. “It don’t make sense. I’m hurting like crazy, and I’m not getting blood to my leg. That’s why my leg is throbbing.”
Sanders revealed in July that he was diagnosed with bladder cancer. He also had his bladder removed during an offseason surgery.
Appearing on Good Morning America in September, Sanders shared that he was screaming in pain after his bladder surgery.
Sanders said, “That was the most excruciating pain I’ve ever felt in my life.”
Sanders recalled being “on the ground in the bathroom” after the surgery, “and I’m just screaming because it was so much pain.”
“You’re irritated because men, we don’t want to go to the doctor,” Sanders said.
The University of Colorado coach said he went in for a “normal scan,” then his doctor said they needed to do “another check on” him.
“And for what? I’m straight, I feel good,” Sanders recalled. “They told me they found something and they needed to bring me back to do a surgery to make sure this was what it was.”
After Sander “prayed on it,” he decided to go forth with the surgery.
“I’m aggressive. I ain’t waiting and I ain’t sitting back on the curb waiting,” Sanders said. “Let’s go right now, let’s go get this thing.”
“I choose to rise up and not to stay down, and I choose to share,” he said. “I want everybody to understand you can make it. We’ve all got something to fight. Who out there isn’t fighting something? It may not be cancer, but it’s something. But you will overcome. We can do this.”