Bret Michaels "Will Make A 100 Percent Recovery," Says Doctor
May 4 2010, Published 6:05 a.m. ET
Celebrity Apprentice’s Bret Michaels is still in critical condition, but his doctor says “I really expect that he will make a 100 percent recovery,” RadarOnline.com has confirmed.
Doctors from Arizona’s Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph’s Hospital held a news conference Tuesday afternoon to discuss the rocker’s condition. “I really think Mr. Michaels was indeed a lucky person, a very lucky person,” Dr. Joseph Zabramski says.
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Dr. Zabramski, who is in charge of the team taking care of Michaels, said the Poison front man is one of only 10-20 percent of the people who suffer a brain hemorrhage to “make a full recovery and resume their activities.” After a third angiogram, the first two of which came out negative, Michaels will no longer be in critical condition. That could happen as early as Thursday.
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Michaels was rushed to the hospital on April 22 after complaining of a massive headache and neck pain. Doctors later determined he had suffered a brain hemorrhage.
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At the news conference, Dr. Zabramski said Brett “has had to continue to suffer,” because he can’t be given steroids because of his diabetes.
“He has severe back pain, and when he tries to walk he has spasms in his back,” Dr. Zabramski says, “then his headaches come back.”
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He’s undergoing physical therapy at an undisclosed rehab facility. “He’s talking well” the doctor reports.
“He’s aware of everything going on,” and the doctor says Bret’s blood vessels are completely normal and “in general he takes very good care of himself.”
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And, “He has no higher risk of having a repeat hemorrhage.”
Doctors will re-examine him in two week intervals. And doctors expect that it will take seven to ten more days before the blood clot will be completely dissolved. “And he will begin to be on the mend and continue activities,” Zabramski said.
