Ben Askren offers an update of the hospital bed after lung transplantation

Former UFC star Ben Askren Was deeply emotional when he tackled his serious health struggle for the first time … saying that the experience was almost when looking at his own funeral.

The 40-year-old shared a video from his hospital bed on Wednesday … Unveiling that he does not remember anything that happened in the entire month of June after reading his wife’s diary, he understands what he went through, nothing less than a movie.

Askren said that he “died only four times” when he had to deal with serious pneumonia … A condition that eventually required a double lung transplant.

At a certain point he said that his heart stopped 20 seconds – what he joked is “not ideal, I don’t know if you know that.”

De Jager said that after losing around 50 pounds in a period of 45 days, he weighed himself earlier this week … And he saw 147 for the first time since he was 15 years old.

Askren also spoke about how his colleagues gathered to support him and his family during his fight … and said, “The output love of the wrestling community, it’s just great. It felt so good.”

“The thing that was the most impactful for me was all the love I felt of everyone,” he added.