Legendary Tennis Player Venus Williams announced this week that she has been diagnosed with Sjogren’s syndrome and will be withdrawing from the U.S. Open. The debilitating auto-immune disease has been affecting her game for awhile and the star appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America Thursday morning:
“I think I’ve had issues with Sjogren’s for a while. It just wasn’t diagnosed,” Williams said. “The good news for me is now I know what’s happening. I had trouble with stamina,” Williams said, adding that her doctor diagnosed her with exercise-induced asthma four years ago. But it wasn’t until this summer, when she developed more definite symptoms, that an accurate diagnosis was made. I had swelling and numbness and fatigue, which was really debilitating. I just didn’t have any energy. And it’s not that you don’t have energy; you just feel beat up.” [ READ MORE ]
The year-old said she is happy she knows what has been bothering her all this time and does plan on returning to Tennis when her health is in better shape. Until then, she is taking some online business classes to pursue a bachelor’s degree.
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Bless the Williams sisters they’ve been through so much this year and I can only hope and pray for the best with them. Will miss them competing though
Who let Chewbacca around the kids? LMAO @ her having enough time to glue rhinestones to her chest. This chick is a nut. If she really was concerned with her health, she would start off by burning all those fake wigs she has. The amount of poison that is coated in those nasty dirty strands is alarming. Black women WAKE UP!!!!!!!
Venus we love you. I would cry if you died. You have accomplished sooo much #1 tennis player in the World.
I only watched tennis because of you and Serena.
God bless .
To open your mouth and openly joke about You’re f**king D**K, and your joke was lame. Your mother was lame for going on all four to S**T you out. You don’t know this woman from a can of paint to disrespect her in this manner. She pretty much is representing you all over the world because no one else including you and your pack of dogs you call ancestors couldn’t do half of what her and sister accomplished. She might have a serious illness and you choose to joke about it. How about you go and sleep w/ an AIDS victim w/out a condom so you could spare us anymore of your lame jokes.
@IDOMIND : So you look better?? That a laugh, why don’t you get off your fat ass and go and see a mental doctor and go and lose some weight from the computer and then talk. LMAO!! You always look so damn pathetic on here all the damn time. It’s either about your sexual desires on these celebs to make your feel good or doing botox for your face to look good. Seriously you need a mental doctor stat!!! LMAO!!!
Get well soon Venus!
I hope she’ll be okay. Praying for the both of them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5Ptcyi9S30
This shows how important education is though…after making millions, she is just NOW going back to school for a BACHELOR’S degree. That ain’t shit nowadays. So basically, she just has a high school diploma. And getting an ONLINE degree at that? Good luck. Anyway, I wish her health the best…I know how it feels to be tired all the time, and not knowing why.
@ Sasamina-Venus has a BFA in Fashion Design-look it up. Both she and Serena are taking business courses online.
God Bless and get well soon Venus- we miss you on the tennis courts!
geez… instead of applauding her for not just sitting on her ass and living off her millions u had to jump stupid…
ahhh God Bless you Venus, I pray you overcome this illness, hang in their sis…
I hope and pray that Venus will be alright. At least this happened after she won the championships.
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