ALLEN IVERSON SPEAKS ON HIS DAUGHTER’S ILLNESS
Allen Iverson returned to the 76ers on Tuesday night after missing five games to be with his sick four-year-old daughter Messiah.
“I’d be lying if I told you it wasn’t tough to leave her and my wife and kids,” Iverson said of leaving his family to play in Tuesday’s game against the Miami Heat. “But I do have a commitment and an obligation to be with my team and to do my job. But it is rough. I think this is the only thing I do in life where for a couple hours during the game I don’t think about nothing but (basketball).”
As for missing the NBA All Star game this past weekend, Iverson said, “In my heart, I wanted to be there. I wanted my daughter and my kids to see me be there. I wanted my wife to have the opportunity to see something like that. I just think the bigger responsibility was to be with my daughter at that time.”
“I can tell she’s getting better,” he continued. “Once we got home[from the Atlanta hospital], she did a lot of running around, but physical things, with her hands and her feet, I can tell something’s wrong. She’s energetic and everything.”
The Iversons plan on admitting Messiah to the renowned Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) in hopes that a doctor can diagnose Messiah’s illness.
11 Comments to “ALLEN IVERSON SPEAKS ON HIS DAUGHTER’S ILLNESS”
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Wow, this is strange. I pray for them.
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What a horrible state for a parent. I hope all goes well for the baby and the family. This is heartbreaking.
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Have they put a name on what’s ailing her yet? Hope she get’s better soon.
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Unfortunately, not at this time. He said he wanted to have her admitted into the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in hopes that they can diagnose her.
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Being a Mystery Diagnosis junkie, I hope they find a doctor that is a good diagnostition who can figure out what’s wrong with their baby. So many doctors today can’t put two and two together (this coming from my sister who is a physician).
I wish the Iverson family, and any family going through such horrible circumstances the best.
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If anyone will be able to find out what’s wrong it would be CHOP. They are number 1 for a reason. Super specialized!
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Well that’s good news, and he can afford whatever treatment is necessary too.
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His daughter is very pretty.
I have a book that details the emotional and psychological problems behind major and small illnesses. It’s called heal yourself or heal your body or something like that. It true and it works — but since a two year old is so new to the world, I wonder what psychological or emotional problems could cause their illness? They shouldn’t be having those sort of problems yet.
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I hope its not Sickle Cell… I recently got diagnosed as having Beta Thalaseemia.. (Cousin 2 sickle cell) and I have major pain attacks as if I have sickle cell… Which requires me to be hospitalized for up to 5-7 days, and sometimes I might require a blood transfusion.
We always knew as a child I had the trait, but I never had many pain crises as a child, certainly not any blood transfusion.
When I was younger, it seem the pain crises would happen often in the winter, but as teenager/adult, it seems to be both summer and winter. I live in the desert part of Los Angeles, and yeah the extreme heat, can causes me to go into crises mode.
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I recently got diagnosed as having Beta Thalaseemia.. (Cousin 2 sickle cell) and I have major pain attacks as if I have sickle cell… Which requires me to be hospitalized for up to 5-7 days, and sometimes I might require a blood transfusion.
We always knew as a child I had the trait, but I never had many pain crises as a child, certainly not any blood transfusion.
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GOD BLESS HER SYMPTOMS SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHIN I READ IN MY MED BOOK AGAIN GOD BLESS HER.
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