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The former UFC fighter, Ben Askren, announced that he was discharged from a hospital on Tuesday after a battle with severe pneumonia led to a double lung transplant.
Askren, 40, published a video update from his vehicle, which his wife Amy was driving after he was discharged from the hospital.
On “Day 59”, Askren explained how he lost 50 pounds while he was hospitalized. Worse, he described approaching death.
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UFC fighter Ben Askren awaits the beginning of a medium -sized martial martial arts fight between David Branch and Jared Cannonier at UFC 230, in New York, on November 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, Archive)
“I’m out, with my beautiful wife. Support. Man, that was a long trip, and it’s not over because I still can’t walk,” Askren said in the video. “YO [have to] Keep doing that again to do that, among many other things. I guess I can give him light because it was me, and I really don’t remember him. But Amy, how close was she dying? “
After a pause, Askren’s wife replied: “Too close. Sometimes.”
“Ah, man,” Askren continued. “I do not remember 35 days of this trip, but I think the surgery was 24-25 days ago. It was difficult, it was difficult. And I said this already in one of my videos, but the support they gave me, whether I was sending a gofundme, if my children and my wife went through it, and with luck, with luck, and with luck everything I like, everything I like, everything I like, and I don’t like everything I don’t like. In this situation again for a time really, very, very long.
The former UFC star, Ben Askren, says that “only died 4 times” while fighting the heartbreaking disease
“Then, thanks, again. All positive support. All comments online. Everything. It means a lot. I love you boys.”
In a previous video, Askren said it was “as a movie” that he did not remember anything from May 28 to July 2.
He only died four times, where the ticket stopped for about 20 seconds, “he said.
Ben Askren is in its corner before a Welter weight fight against Demian Maia in Brazil during the UFC fight at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on October 26, 2019 in Singapore. (Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC through Getty Images)
“But I got the double lung transplant. I arrived on the other side. Gain enough strength. Learning to use everything again. Yesterday I was on a scale, 147 pounds. I have not been 147 pounds since 15 years … So that was a battle. I don’t remember most.”
Amy Askren said in early July that her husband received a donor for the double lung transplant and was asking for sentences.
Askren recently signed with Real American Freestyle, Hulk Hogan’s company hoping to popularize free professional wrestling.
The 40 -year -old was champion of the NCAA in the 170 -pound division in 2006 and 2007 and competed for the US team. In the 2008 Olympic Games. He won gold medals in the 2005 Pan American Championship and the 2009 World Championship.
Ben Askren attends a press conference for the opening event of Triller Fight Club at Venetian Las Vegas on March 26, 2021 in Las Vegas. (Ethan Miller/Getty images)
Askren made the transition completely to MMA Fighting when he debuted in Bellator in 2010. He competed in a championship before moving to the UFC.
Askren fought Robbie Lawler and won by submission in UFC 235 before falling against Jorge Masvidal. Then, in 2021, Askren fought against Jake Paul in a boxing game, and was knocked out in the first round.
