Now the Within the Air Tonight singer, who additionally suffers from kind 2 diabetes, has a round the clock, live-in nurse “to verify I take my treatment as I ought to do.”
Final July, rumors started circulating that he was in hospice, however his group vehemently denied these claims, noting he was within the hospital for knee surgical procedure, not a terminal sickness. Nonetheless, the drummer admitted on the time, “I have been sick, I imply very sick.”
His knees, which have affected his mobility and talent to remain energetic, have been an ongoing problem. “I’ve had 5 operations on my knee. Now I’ve obtained a knee that works and I can stroll, albeit with help – crutches or no matter,” he stated.
The Rock and Roll Corridor of Famer additionally had again surgical procedure in 2015.
As he places it, “The physician needed to go in there, work on the sciatic nerve and take my again aside and unscramble the mess.”