Deion Sanders opens up about his fight with bladder cancer
Coach Prime addressed his recent health issues for the first time, with Dr. Janet Kukreja and assistant athletic trainer Lauren Askevold.
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Colorado football coach Deion Sanders has been forced to learn a new way of living after having his bladder removed in May.
That includes certain issues involving his job:
“Can I make it through a game?” Sanders asked in a podcast with former Dallas Cowboys teammate Michael Irvin posted Monday, July 28.
While he said he never considered retiring from coaching, Sanders, 57, did think about the ways he’d need to work through his new health situation, which includes incontinence and a smaller, newly constructed bladder.
‘I know I got halftime, but can I make it through a game?” Sanders said to Irvin. “What if there’s a long quarter? OK, so I start thinking I gotta get a Porta Potty for the sideline.”
To get a better sense of what Sanders will face as a college football coach in his recovery from bladder cancer, USA TODAY Sports discussed his situation with medical experts. These doctors are not treating the Pro Football Hall of Famer but described what life is like for a patient in his general situation. It won’t be easy.
“You are heralded as one of the best athletes to play the game, and you peeing on yourself, man,” Sanders said in the podcast.
But there also is reason to believe he won’t be noticeably different on the sideline when Colorado opens the season against Georgia Tech Aug. 29.
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