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Lamar Odom, once an NBA superstar, is nowice claiming the staggering nature of his health crisis back in 2015. He told in a chat that he went through 12 strokes and 6 heart attacks. The sick man described the whole process as being unable to walk or talk, and one of the patients, whom doctors predicted would die, was him. The two-time champion has been really open about sharing his memory of the almost-deadly incident, his tough recovery, from which he has been getting great admiration and support from his followers.
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In an extremely personal video, Odom described the particulars of his health issues. ‘You did an interview, I believe, with Kevin Hart, and you mentioned that you experienced 12 strokes and six heart attacks. That is true,’ the interviewer pointed out to which Odom responded by confirming the terrifying figures. He said that the condition was so dreadful that the medics suggested his relatives to say their last goodbyes. ‘The doctors thought I didn’t make it… I was dead. They told my family to go see your final goodbyes. It was finished.’
The period following the crisis was not only a significant physical but also an emotional trial for the 6’10” sportsman. Odom spoke about the experience of waking up like a man who has nothing left. ‘I was so many things, a six-foot-nine in shape athletic man. But I couldn’t do that anymore. I went out for one night and when I woke up I couldn’t walk or talk.’ He told about feeling confused and then getting angry with himself for needing to take the entire learning of even the most basic life skills process again. He declared it as very humbling and compared it to going back to the stage of infancy in his personal care by the nurses looking after his most intimate needs.
The audience turned out to be very emotional and at the same time very supportive of Odom’s story. Most of the commenters said they were happy and they thought his being alive was a miracle from God. A commenter wrote ‘You’re a miracle walking, Lamar,’ which is a widely accepted idea and is expressed in many other replies. Another one thought about the anxiousness and tears the public experienced and commented, ‘@lamarodom I remember crying like I knew you. Praying that god would bring you out you are so loved and we’re all happy you fought your way through it.’ This suggests that a large number of people felt Odom’s struggle connected them, even though they were not physically present.
A great number of other users recalled their instances of praying for his healing and emphasized the importance of faith as a determining factor in the outcome that they believed had a positive influence. One of these comments reads, ‘When I tell you I prayed REAL PRAYERS!!! I prayed HARD! God is so Good!’ Another one attributed a reason to his survival, saying, ‘He wasn’t done with you yet!!! You had work left to do!!!’ The way these people responded reveals that Odom’s story is regarded by many as not just a medical miracle but also a spiritual witness.
One of the most remarkable responses came from a person who asserted that he had the divine insight into Odom’s future that he would be a motivational speaker. ‘@lamarodom You had a lot of people praying for you. Prayer works. I have been a diehard fan and I was sending up some mighty prayers. GOD told me you were going to be ok and that you would become a motivational speaker,’ the person wrote. This comment implies that for his fans, Odom’s life is a source of inspiration and testimony.
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Lamar Odom’s sports career brought him to the Los Angeles Lakers where he was the one who received two NBA trophies and was named NBA Sixth Man of the Year in 2011. He battled with health issues during the year 2015, at the end of which he was found unconscious at a Nevada brothel. Since then he has been going through a long, publicly known recovery and his recent reflections are giving us a very direct, firsthand account of how fragile life can be and how much strength it takes to build one’s life again. He still has a powerful story of survival against all odds. His story has even inspired AI art and pop-up events.
This story originally appeared on Celebrityinsider
