Over the last few months, Deion Sanders has gone through a lot. Although the blood clots and toe amputations are well-known, a question mark remained as to why Coach Prime had been losing so much weight. Deion Sanders answered that query back in July, and fans held their breath. Turned out, it was bladder cancer. A tough decision had to be made. Either remove the bladder, taking out the cancer, or take chemotherapy. Prime Time chose the surgery, and the Sanders’ abode was in tears, as they held his hands, as he was wheeled towards the surgery room. The surgery was successful, and he was declared Cancer-free. However, post-surgery recovery has been a nasty challenge. One, he can’t help but attach it to his 13-month-old grandson, Snow.

A couple of days back, Deion Sanders’ rumored girlfriend, Karrueche Tran, was teary-eyed as she talked about his health. “He’s alive. He stands free, thank God,” she had revealed to TMZ Sports. But entirely replacing an organ is a lot. After removing his bladder, the doctors reconstructed another, made from a part of his small intestine. But challenges still persist. “I’m good. I only have one problem that I cannot control, “Deion Sanders revealed on Politely Raw.

“My pee. I can’t control when I pee. So some days… of me and my grandson having a competition, with who has the heaviest pants,” he said, all smiles, but the pain clearly peaked past his masked emotions. He continued. “You know, my diaper is heavier than his is some mornings, but that’s the only thing that’s going on.” Snow is the son of Deiondra, Coach Prime’s daughter, and rapper Jacquees.

Back then, when Deiondra came to know about the procedure, she was fighting her tears. The medical personnel explained the process to her. “The new bladder doesn’t have the neurotransmitters that go up to your brain to tell us, like, we don’t have to just get a sensation that we need to use the restroom, right?” the medical staff explained while Prime Time listened through the whole conversation, playing with his grandson.

She had continued. “He won’t have it anymore, so he’s gonna have to, like, set timers on when to use the restroom and literally, like, push his urine out of it,” Prime Time elaborated on those struggles. “I can’t. My bladder don’t know what time it is. It don’t… it has no idea. Some nights are good. I can make it through the night. Some nights I can’t,” he added. “So thank God for the pants.”

It was a tough time for Sanders’ abode. The coach hadn’t even told his family about the diagnosis. For a while, he thought about his future and his family, calling on his lawyers to draft his will. But the gloomy days were soon gone, and he bounced back, strong again; he knows how to take the bull by the horns, both on and off the turf. Settling down into mundane life, shouting orders on the sidelines to his beloved roster, and more.

Although Coach Prime smiles throughout the episode, a hilarious competition between him and his granddad, but dig a little deeper, and you’d realize it is a painful process that every cancer survivor could relate to. It is the most excruciating pain, as he put it.

The most excruciating pain, Deion Sanders calls it

Deion Sanders has been advocating for cancer and urging people to get checked for early detection. His recovery journey post-surgery has been a challenging one, along with the hurdle of being able to relieve himself. In a conversation with former teammate Michael Strahan on Good Morning America, he let out his struggles. “I remember just, on the ground in the bathroom, and I’m just screaming because it was so much pain.”

He continued. “Some nights I go through two pairs of Depends a night. Like, some nights are bad.” Prime Time had the option to go for Chemotherapy, but Boulder needed him. His boys were waiting for him on the sidelines. “I ain’t waiting. I ain’t sitting back on the curb waiting to go slowly but surely do whatever’s gonna happen.”

The will to bounce back stronger than ever was distilled in him. But it wasn’t a cake walk. “That was a fight, but we made it,” he described it. Aside from his football, fishing kept his spirits high. He would play tennis, go for a run, walk with his daughter, and aim at the hoops. It was experiencing life itself that kept him cheered on to recover fast and bounce back again.