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I'd sometimes fly for 14 hours, then go straight to dialysis. I spent a little time being tired, but we managed. I'm not a pity-party person.

I was in the hospital for about two weeks because I had some complications due to the transition to kidney from dialysis and getting off of that.

I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to days like my comeback this Saturday. You need those big goals to drive you on.

Dialysis does not make patients well. It simply postpones their deaths.

I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing.

If you don't have dialysis, absolutely, you will die. Dialysis is actually keeping me alive.

It was in 2003 that I realised there was no choice but to have dialysis treatment - by the time of the World Cup that year, I could barely walk. A year later, I finally had a kidney transplant.

I've still got both kidneys, but one doesn't work, so I have to be careful not to drink too much, even water, and I have to keep myself as healthy as possible.

In the United States, Western Europe and Japan, there is widespread access to dialysis, most of it publicly funded. But in many countries, the majority of patients who need dialysis die without it.

Twice a week I would receive injections or IV's of Factor VIII which clotted the blood and then broke it down.