Doctor: BRET MICHAELS' Sheer Will To Live And Fully Recover Is Undeniable

April 30, 2010

Bret Michaels, who appears in People magazine's "World Most Beautiful People of 2010" issue this week and is also ironically in the "Scoop" section of the magazine because of his brain hemorrhage, is being treated at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Barrow is among the world's leading neurological centers and is the home of the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center.

In the days following Michaels' hospitalization, due to a subarachnoid hemorrhage, there was a lot of speculation as to where Michaels was being treated. Due to the severity of his life-threatening condition, the instantaneous way in which the hemorrhage presented itself and respect for his family, his location was not confirmed to the media. There is a seven-to-ten-day period that is extremely critical in which multiple tests are conducted to detect the source of the bleeding.

"There is no doubt that Mr. Michaels' condition is serious. We are treating the subarachnoid hemorrhage, which caused his severe cranial pain," states Dr. Zabramski who has been a top neurosurgeon at Barrow Neurological Institute since 1986 and serves as the chief of cerebrovascular surgery and director of clinical neurosurgical research at the center and is leading Michaels' team. Zabramski continues, "Mr. Michaels will continue to undergo testing considering we have hit a few roadblocks, including hyponatremia, severe cranial and back pain suffered from blood drainage, an emergency appendectomy performed a week earlier and a lifelong history of type 1 diabetes. However, "Bret's sheer will to live and fully recover is undeniable. He has an unbelievable fight in him and told me what kept him alive at the moment of the hemorrhage was that he 'did not want his family to wake up and see him lying unconscious in the middle of the floor.' It was a combination of Bret's fight to stay conscious during the hemorrhage and get to the emergency room, and the immediate medical attention provided by our staff at Barrow that enabled us to stabilize his condition."

At this time Barrow neurologists and neurosurgeons will be having a press conference at 12 p.m. Tuesday to discuss and update his condition, treatment and prognosis in full detail.

Find more on

Prev More News Next

Comments Disclaimer And Information

BLABBERMOUTH.NET uses the Facebook Comments plugin to let people comment on content on the site using their Facebook account. The comments reside on Facebook servers and are not stored on BLABBERMOUTH.NET. To comment on a BLABBERMOUTH.NET story or review, you must be logged in to an active personal account on Facebook. Once you're logged in, you will be able to comment. User comments or postings do not reflect the viewpoint of BLABBERMOUTH.NET and BLABBERMOUTH.NET does not endorse, or guarantee the accuracy of, any user comment. To report spam or any abusive, obscene, defamatory, racist, homophobic or threatening comments, or anything that may violate any applicable laws, use the "Report to Facebook" and "Mark as spam" links that appear next to the comments themselves. To do so, click the downward arrow on the top-right corner of the Facebook comment (the arrow is invisible until you roll over it) and select the appropriate action. You can also send an e-mail to blabbermouthinbox(@)gmail.com with pertinent details. BLABBERMOUTH.NET reserves the right to "hide" comments that may be considered offensive, illegal or inappropriate and to "ban" users that violate the site's Terms Of Service. Hidden comments will still appear to the user and to the user's Facebook friends. If a new comment is published from a "banned" user or contains a blacklisted word, this comment will automatically have limited visibility (the "banned" user's comments will only be visible to the user and the user's Facebook friends).