Elton John is making a “gradual” restoration from his newest well being scare.
RadarOnline.com can reveal the 77-year-old music legend has been battling partial blindness from a critical an infection.
John made the announcement Tuesday in an Instagram publish, writing: “Over the summer season, I’ve been coping with a extreme eye an infection that has sadly left me with solely restricted imaginative and prescient in a single eye.”
He continued: “I’m therapeutic, however it’s an especially gradual course of and it’ll take a while earlier than sight returns to the impacted eye.”
John mentioned he had been “quietly spending the summer season recuperating at house”, including: “[I] am feeling optimistic in regards to the progress I’ve made in my therapeutic and restoration to date.”
In his publish, he thanked the “glorious workforce of medical doctors and nurses” in addition to his household, “who’ve taken such excellent care of me over the past a number of weeks.”
The information got here simply days earlier than the discharge of the retired pop sensation’s documentary, Elton John: By no means Too Late. The Disney+ venture follows John by his forty ninth and remaining Farewell Yellow Brick Street tour and chronicles the early days of his flourishing 50-year profession.
John additionally gave his well being replace simply weeks after RadarOnline.com reported his situation was referred to as into query when he was caught urinating right into a bottle in the midst of a shoe retailer in France. He had apparently been informed there was no public restroom close by, however it was unclear whether or not his urgency was attributable to a prostate difficulty or different well being downside.
The Rocket Man singer, who retired from touring in 2023, has had a number of medical points lately, battling pneumonia, persistent hip and knee bother, prostate most cancers and sort 2 diabetes. He additionally had a pacemaker put in following a coronary heart downside in 1999.
John struggled to stroll onto the stage at Glastonbury final 12 months and infrequently has to take a seat down at occasions, often even utilizing a wheelchair.
He wanted hip surgical procedure following a fall in 2021 and was briefly hospitalized after one other fall at house final summer season.
The singer’s weight fluctuations have additionally raised eyebrows. Final 12 months, he gained 40 kilos, placing him vulnerable to additional falls or coronary heart assaults, after which dropped the burden once more.
He joked on the time: “A whole lot of my disgrace comes from the way in which I’ve placed on weight. It has been with me all my life. I am going up and down like a bloody yo-yo! However I’ve actually focused on that in lockdown and I’ve had quite a lot of assist from individuals in the home.”
John was additionally seen strolling with a cane after present process knee alternative surgical procedure in January.
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