The Million Dollar Man provides a health update.
Dibiase retired in 1993 and hasn’t wrestled since, but there is long lasting effects related to the sport, like any other major contact sport on the planet. That includes brain trauma.
DiBiase spoke on his Everybody’s Got A Pod podcast about brain trauma and provided a health update in the process.
“I’m dealing with this, and this is legit. I don’t have Alzheimer’s, and I don’t have dementia, but they said, ‘Ted, you save something, we simply call it severe brain trauma.’ I said, ‘Really?’ I only wrestled for maybe 20 years. I’m not surprised I might have a little brain trauma. What it affects is my memory. They say it’s easier to remember something I did 40-50 years ago, but the short-term memory, it’s bits and pieces. Having had almost a 20-year active career, I physically wrestled almost 20 years, there were no days off, it was seven days a week until I went to the WWF. Even then, when I first started, it was three straight weeks on, 21 days, 21 cities, and then you’d go home for a week. Then, they eventually changed it to 10 on, three off, four on, three off, so you were home a little more. I thank God I’m still here,”
Ted Dibiase
All at Bodyslam.net wish Dibiase the best moving forward with regards to his health issues.
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