On doctors almost cutting his leg to save his life:
“Again. Fortunately, WWE got me a doctor in Atlanta that did this. I was in the hospital for eight weeks. I had insisted on getting out of the hospital. I think about after four weeks, I had leaked, like fluid leaking constantly out my legs. I was swollen up like the Michelin man.
I was laying on a bed for a while now for about four and a half weeks. I had a drip in both arms. I couldn’t move literally couldn’t move. I was cramping up because they were giving me diuretics. I’m insisting on staying out of hospital but they’re going, no, you have to go. I just cramped literally from my eyelids to my toes.
I fell out of bed and on the floor my wife couldn’t move me. I barely came in and the other son picked me up off the floor and they got an ambulance. The hospital said ‘He has sepsis in his leg again. We’re going to cut his leg off and he’s got probably 24 hours to live if we don’t.’
The doctor who was looking after me, his wife, is a doctor. She was on call. So she overheard this and called her husband at home, woke him up, and said they’re about to chop his leg. He called them and said, ‘Inject him with this, this, this, this and this. That worked and it saved my leg.”
