The former Toronto Raptors and Miami Heat player’s career spanned from 2003 through 2017 before he officially retired in 2019 due to health concerns.

WASHINGTON — Chris Bosh, an 11-time NBA All-Star and two-time champion, shared a recent health scare that he said has given him a “different outlook on life.”

The former Toronto Raptors and Miami Heat player’s career spanned from 2003 through 2017 before he officially retired in 2019 due to health concerns. 

“I woke up covered in my own blood,” he said in an Instagram video on Wednesday. “It was crazy. It was fast. It was instant. There was no warning. I didn’t have any time.”

He said he was getting ready for a date with his wife when he collapsed.

“A numbing sensation shot down my left leg, that sharp, electric feeling you get when you bump your funny bone. Before I knew it, I was on the floor,” he wrote in a Feb. 22 Stubstack blog post. “I slowly came to in a pool of my own blood while my wife frantically spoke with 911. I tried to move my body the way I always had, and it didn’t respond.”

In Wednesday’s video, he said he has no recollection, and he “went to the darkness” and came back. 

“That’s when the realization hit me, everything can collapse at a moment’s notice. There’s not always a warning. There’s not always a symptom or a buildup to let you know what’s coming,” he wrote. “One moment you’re walking. The next moment, you could be gone.”

He encouraged his followers to “make sure you don’t wait” to do things in life because things “can come fast.”

“That’s the thing that I get from this. Don’t wait to take action,” he said. “You might be wanting to get a promotion. You might want to try out for the team. You might want to go on that vacation. It might be so many different things that people want to do — that we want to do — that we never do.”

Bosh said he’s now taking it one day at a time. 

“I’m lucky to be alive, and I feel great about that,” he said. “Now I’m thinking about how I live my day-to-day life. That’s really it.”

He wrote about how he was only focusing on keeping things simple and more honest. 

“I stopped paying attention to things outside of myself and started paying attention to the things I had neglected,” he wrote. “I began to focus on the passions and people who were already pouring into my life, rather than chasing validation from the unknowns and from those who weren’t reciprocating the same energy I gave them.”

Bosh retired from the NBA at 32 in 2019, a few years after doctors found a blood clot in his lung and another in his calf, according to ESPN. The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association ruled Bosh’s health issue as career-ending despite him trying to continue to play. 

“It’s pretty much like cruising along, going 150 miles an hour in your Porsche — and then you fall into a hole,” Bosh told ESPN in 2018 amid the health concerns.Â