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.
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I was on dialysis three times a week for four and a half hours each time.
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 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.
If you don't have dialysis, absolutely, you will die. Dialysis is actually keeping me alive.
We used to have to arrange things around the dialysis. I would have to plan where to play so I could be back in time, and couldn't go too far.
Anytime I can go fly for a few hours, I go. It's stressful and stress-relieving at the same time.
I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing.
Dialysis does not make patients well. It simply postpones their deaths.
On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.
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