"OT" Bret Michaels in ICU

[styxfansite]

I guess most people here have been following this news, but if you haven't....

If you have been watching the Celebrity Apprentice, Brett is one of the celebritys still on the show. The show was taped back in October, November. Rumors are floating around the net that Bret is one of the Final two. The live finale airs in May.

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1637745/20100425/bret_michaels.jhtml

According to an update posted Sunday (April 25) on Bret Michaels' website and Facebook page, the singer/ reality-TV star remains in intensive care after suffering a brain hemorrhage late Thursday.

"Everyone at Michaels Entertainment would like to thank all fans and friends for their continued thoughts and prayers through this difficult time," the post reads. "At this point Bret remains in ICU in critical condition. He is under 24-hour doctors' care and supervision. We are hopeful that further tests will locate the source of the bleeding, which has still not been located. As we all know Bret is a fighter and we are hopeful that once all is complete the slurred speech, blurred vision and dizziness, etc. will be eliminated and all functions will return to normal.

More information will be posted as it becomes available," the post concludes. Despite reports late Friday that Michaels' condition had "stabilized," his website was updated Saturday, noting that he remained in critical condition.

"There are several incorrect reports on Bret's condition," the post reads. "Bret remains in critical condition at an undisclosed location. Further tests are being ran and information will be updated in the coming days."

TMZ reported late Friday that Michaels was "awake, in good spirits and talking" citing Ambre Lake, the season-two winner of Michaels' "Rock of Love" reality show. The site reported that Lake has spoken with people close to Michaels who said he was "stabilized and conscious." Lake's status update on the 47-year-old singer was said to coincide with another unidentified "Rock of Love" contestant who is in touch with the other members of Poison.

Michaels was rushed to the hospital late Thursday evening, where doctors discovered he had suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage, or bleeding at the base of his brain stem, a rep for the singer confirmed to MTV News.

"After several CAT scans, MRIs and an angiogram, [doctors] decided to keep Michaels in the ICU and are running several tests to determine the cause [of the hemorrhage]," a source told People magazine, in a report that Michaels' rep said was accurate. "[It] will be touch and go for the next few days while he is under intense observation."



Thanks

[Everett]

Here's a thread from upstairs about this

http://forums.melodicrock.com/phpBB/vie ... hp?t=46951

[styxfansite]

yeah, I don't go upstairs much except to the main homepage. So for those upstairs that have already seen this, sorry for the post here.

[Babyblue]

Thanks! Saying prayers that he will be fine.

[bugsymalone]

He seems to be hanging in there, so good for him. Hope he makes a full recovery.

Bugsy

[SuiteMadameBlue]

I posted this upstairs....

I wonder if this was caused by he head injury from last year:

On June 7, 2009, Michaels suffered a fractured nose and cut lip at the Tony Awards show after performing Poison's song Nothin' but a Good Time with the cast of the musical Rock of Ages. When Michaels turned to exit the stage, a descending piece of the set hit him in the head before he could duck under it, knocking him on his back.

and here's the video, looks like he was hit very hard:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RnEWPt-x8Q&feature=fvw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JocPcYBCN18

[froy]

I posted this upstairs....

I wonder if this was caused by he head injury from last year:

On June 7, 2009, Michaels suffered a fractured nose and cut lip at the Tony Awards show after performing Poison's song Nothin' but a Good Time with the cast of the musical Rock of Ages. When Michaels turned to exit the stage, a descending piece of the set hit him in the head before he could duck under it, knocking him on his back.

and here's the video, looks like he was hit very hard:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RnEWPt-x8Q&feature=fvw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JocPcYBCN18

Crazy knock on the head
I don't think this would be the cause so much later in the game
Who knows,

[Zan]

I posted this upstairs....

I wonder if this was caused by he head injury from last year:

On June 7, 2009, Michaels suffered a fractured nose and cut lip at the Tony Awards show after performing Poison's song Nothin' but a Good Time with the cast of the musical Rock of Ages. When Michaels turned to exit the stage, a descending piece of the set hit him in the head before he could duck under it, knocking him on his back.

and here's the video, looks like he was hit very hard:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RnEWPt-x8Q&feature=fvw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JocPcYBCN18

Crazy knock on the head
I don't think this would be the cause so much later in the game
Who knows,

I wouldn't think so either, Froy, but brain injuries are funny sometimes.

[Toph]

Brett seems like a genuinely decent guy. Typical 80s hair band guy that got caught up in the excesses of hair band rock n roll and having a lot of assorted health problems since, but I think a really good guy. Prayers for him and his family.

[yogi]

Any word how he is doing?

[styxfansite]

Any word how he is doing?

Sounds like good news for him. They have already started lining up tours for later this month.

This is from a zap to it blog.


Poison lead singer and "Celebrity Apprentice" star Bret Michaels is still in the hospital. But according to his sister Michelle, he's already walking "a little bit."

Speaking to The Todd N Tyler Radio Empire show on Monday (May 3), she said, "He's up and moving but it is not going to surprise me if he is still in the ICU on Friday. I think they're having a problem really getting the bleed...I think there are some issues...that's why the back pain."

His speech is not slurred anymore but he still has pain. His sister explained, "What's happened is all that blood in his brain is starting to drain and he's starting to have a lot of back pain. I can hear it in his voice."

His hospital, the St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona. will reportedly hold a news conference with Michael's neurological surgeon Dr. Joseph M. Zabramski at noon on Tuesday (May 4) to update everyone on Bret's condition and prognosis.

[bugsymalone]

I have always found Bret to be such a likable guy. He has certainly led the rock and roll lifestyle to the fullest, but he always comes off as sweet-natured and very upbeat.

I hope he can overcome this, and it sounds like he will with the time to heal on his side now.


Bugsy

[styxfansite]

New Good News

http://au.eonline.com/uberblog/b179410_ ... t_one.html


Bret Michaels isn't out of the woods yet, but at least he's out of the hospital.

The recovering rocker's attending physician held a press conference today, announcing that the Celebrity Apprentice contestant has been discharged and is in stable condition following his nearly two-week hospital stay.

"Mr. Michaels was indeed a lucky person," Dr. Joseph Zabramski said. "A very lucky person."

How lucky?

Let's just say, superlatives don't cover it.

The last we heard from the medical team at Pheonix's prestigious Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Michaels was in critical condition and, in addition to his brain hemorrhage, emergency appendectomy and severe head and back pain, he had developed hyponatremia, a sodium deficiency that can cause seizures, blood clotting around his brain stem, and was forced to deal with his suddenly "out of control diabetes."

Not exactly the makings of a smooth recovery.

Cut to today.

"At this point, I want to tell you that he has been discharged," the doctor said. "I can't tell you where, I can't tell you when, federal privacy laws prevent me from saying that.

"But he has been recently discharged and he continues to receive therapies. And we continue to monitor his laboratories daily, and we're adjusting his medications, and he is making a good recovery. I really expect that he will fortunately make a 100 percent recovery. He's just one of those lucky people."

Zabramski said that while Michaels is no longer at the hospital, he will continue to be evaluated every two weeks. It will take somewhere between seven and 10 days for his blood to resolve itself and for him to "begin to feel good" and resume normal activities.

One of the problems with Michaels' initial treatment was that, as a diabetic, he could not be prescribed the medications doctors would ordinarily use. For instance, Michaels contracted chemical meningitis, and while the usual course of treatment would be steroids, his doctors were forced to go another route.

"Unfortunately, he's been continuing to suffer."

As for the mystery cause of his bleeding, it will remain a mystery. Though according to Zabramski, that is a good thing.

"At this point we're feeling pretty confident that he does not have an aneurysm or problems with his blood vessels that would make a recurring hemorrhage," he said.

"This is one of those rare instances where we're pleased that we can't find the cause of the bleed. Ninety five percent of patients with this type of hemorrhage go on to make a complete recovery and they have no higher risk than anyone in this room to have a repeat."

This type of hemorrhage, for those wondering, is an angiographically negative subarachnoid one. (Don't you feel smarter already?)

But while Michaels is expected to make a full recovery, he's "still very sick right now," Zabramski said. "He can walk, but he's not walking very well. He's talking very well. He's mentally aware of everything that's going on."

But while doctors don't know what caused the initial hemorrhaging, they know what didn't cause it, and that's his televised bump to the head at last year's Tony Awards.

"I do not believe that that's a possibility at all. Much too long a time. A hit can cause subarachnoid hemorrhaging, but it causes it immediately. And he was very extensively evaluated," the doctor said.

"If that had caused the problem that led to this hemorrhage, we would have seen the damage to his blood vessels…and they are in perfectly normal condition. He takes very good care of himself."

Still, the doctor's orders were for Michaels to take a minimum of 4-6 weeks of solid recovery time.

"What I made him promise me is that he would make no promises. Of course, I've heard that he's made promises," Zabramski said of Michaels' already-announced tour plans. "He's a very determined person, and it depends on how quickly he recovers."

Here's hoping it's very quickly.

(Originally published May 4, 2010, at 1:28 p.m. PT)