Boston Celtics star Jason Tatum After his Achilles tender burst - both outside and outside the court were forced to accept the strict new reality.

Tatum, 27, did surgery in May Game 4 victims of brutal injuries during The semifinals of the Eastern Conference against New York Nix. Tatum was not only at risk of all the absence of the next season, but the basketball superstar also had to adapt to some of the major changes in his daily world.

"This is something that has truly influenced my life," Tatum said exclusively Our weekly While promoting its partnership with Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Jourbshax. "Obviously, I was injured and I couldn't play, but my daily life was really deadly. I had to go back to my mom's house because I couldn't get up. I had to stay on the first floor."

Tatum said that he was "take a bath and wearing a dress."

Tatum explained, "I had a walker and I had a shower seat." "I had to make sure I didn't go back to the shower. I had to take real precautions. Such things have changed my life that it was really hard to deal with it."

When his mom moved into Brandy coalThe Boston-Aria house was not under the "best situation", the Tatum built most of it.

"It was like high school," he made a joke. "Who is better to help you through the person who has raised you? I can't be more than grateful to stay in a position where my mother was really close and I was able to stay with him."

Tatum also said, “You know, he will probably say that I was rigid.

Tatum was not only able to risk his mother's support, but the recovery process allowed him to slow down and relax in parents mode With his sons, Duice7, and Dilan14 monthsThe

"Usually, during the summer, I used to travel busy and all these to different places," said Tatum. "But in most cases, I was only in Boston De Duce is now in the second grade. He's at the age where he is a little man he is a small version of me."

Tatum added to his biggest son, "He understands the things a lot more. He is more attentive. The conversations are when he is 4 years old. He is my mini best friend that I just like to be in the neighborhood."

Celtics is on the way to recovery and is planning to stay around the team as much as possible, even recently indicated that he did not refuse to play in the upcoming season.

Boston is their 2025-2026 regular season schedule on October 22 at home against Philadelphia 76rs.

During his rehabilitation process, Tatum has been part of Vertex Pharmaceuticals and has treated his acute pain with the first new class journal of nonopyid pain drug approved by the FDA for more than 20 years. Tatum was determined after the acute OPW side effect post-Surgery.

"In the sign of about four weeks, I introduced some new things in rehab," Tatum explained. "I was carrying 50 percent of my right leg weight and I felt a bit uncomfortable and pain that is when I discussed with my doctor about Journavox. I have any side effects like any drug. But I have no side effects and it really relieved the pain."

Tatum added, "Obviously, talk to your doctor but you have such alternatives and choices."