Sager underwent his third bone marrow transplant Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, as he continues to battle acute myeloid leukemia.
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But one thing Sager couldn’t fight right before he underwent his most recent bone marrow transplant was his doctors who told him that his wife Stacy wouldn’t be able to stay with him because of a bad cold she had.
Following the same AP article, Barkley’s doctor was absolutely furious upon learning his patient had defied his orders.
Faith in humanity restored, if only for one day.
Charles Barkley just went though hip replacement surgery a month ago and his doctor had forbid him from traveling.
Charles Barkley is there for Craig Sager.
CORRECTS FROM MD ANDERSON HOSPITAL TO MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER -NBA Hall of Fame member and TNT colleague Charles Barkley left, bumps fists with sportscaster Craig Sager after visiting Sager Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016, at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
“We go to see Sager to cheer him up and by the time you leave you’re like, ‘Is anything wrong with him?’ Barkley told the Associated Press. When you go to try and cheer him up his attitude is so upbeat he cheers you up”. However, Sager Jr. said on Twitter Tuesday, “After two, I’d be donating to myself and it wouldn’t hold up long”.
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“Thanks to an anonymous donor, tomorrow my dad will enter an unimaginable milestone with his third bone marrow/stem cell transplant in a 3 year span”. Dr. Muzaffar Qazilbash, Sager’s stem cell transplantation physician, researched thousands of such transplants at MD Anderson over the last 15 years. The procedure was expected to take some 10 hours. But it sounds like he’s got plenty of fight left in him.
