Former Motörhead drummer Mikkey Dee says he’s fortunate to be alive following a sepsis prognosis over the vacation interval.
The Swedish percussionist shared information of his well being scare on social media on Thursday (Dec. 2), explaining that he had been hospitalized following a blood an infection he described as “very critical”.
“I used to be admitted for 3 weeks however now I’m dwelling preventing this bastard micro organism,” he shared. “Fortunately, I’ve acquired improbable care on the Sahlgrenska College Hospital in Gothenburg, my hometown.
“So thanks 1,000,000 to all of the Docs and Nurses which were giving me probably the most glorious care,” he added. “After a number of operations, I’m now again dwelling and the numbers are all getting into the appropriate path. Nonetheless a lot of restoration and rehab in entrance of me.”
In an interview with Swedish publication Aftonbladet, Dee expanded upon the expertise. He advised the outlet that what started as a easy sprain shortly advanced into one thing far worse on the weekend earlier than Christmas.
“The ankle swelled up like hell, then it took on a bizarre form and look and appeared like an overcooked ham,” Dee mentioned. “I turned very ailing so I needed to go by ambulance to Sahlgrenska and there they discovered that I had sky-high values, so I turned precedence one there.
“It was surgical procedure immediately, the primary of three. They reduce away what was lifeless and contaminated and badly infested. It was not a superb journey I used to be on… One other day and I’d be enjoying drums with Lemmy in heaven. I can say that.”
In some unusual synchronicity, Dee’s brush with dying occurred nearly 9 years to the day since his Motörhead bandmate Lemmy Kilmister handed away, on Dec. 28, 2015. Notably, his well being scare additionally occurred mere weeks after he took to social media to refute untimely stories of his dying.
First rising to fame as a member of Danish outfit King Diamond within the ’80s, a stint with Don Dokken noticed Dee recruited by Motörhead to exchange Phil ‘Philthy Animal’ Taylor on drums. Dee would stay with the group till their 2015 dissolution within the wake of Lemmy’s passing, and joined German rockers the Scorpions the next yr.
