I'm just the same as anybody else now. To get TB again, I'd have to go out and catch a whole new case of it. Let's forget about it. I'm a ballplayer.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I had TB as a child. So I was put to doing things like drawing and reading. And I was raised in a family where manners were important. Maybe that's why I seem so refined.
I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.
It took me about 10 years to get rid of. I'm all right now, though, lovely, I'm throwing some nice darts at the moment, but every now and then I get a bit of a jump. I wish I could find a cure, I'd make a bloody fortune.
In 1987 I got dartitis, a psychological condition which means you can't let your darts go properly. For a time, I wondered what the hell I was going to do if I didn't recover. But I remained positive and, thankfully, got over it. It occurred during the Swedish Open when I found I couldn't let the darts go.
I'm going to play again. I will think and I will hope so. If I don't, I am fine with it.
If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.
Stopping TB requires a government program that functions every day of the year, and that's hard in certain parts of the world. And partly it's because of who tuberculosis affects: It tends to affect the poor and disenfranchised most.
I'm never gonna play again, and I know I'm really, really going to miss it.
You're playing worse and worse every day and right now you're playing like it's next month.
I mean we grew up in a TB bus and I became a TB doctor.