A hellraiser of an an infection.
Former Motörhead drummer Mikkey Dee has revealed he almost died due to a current sepsis an infection.
The 61-year-old heavy steel rocker, who has been with the band Scorpions since 2016, shared particulars of his life-and-death battle on Thursday in a Fb put up.
“Just a quick statement about what has been happening to me these past three weeks,” the Swedish-born star started his assertion.
“First I like to thank everyone for these heartwarming Christmas and New Years greetings, that I have not been able to respond to. I always try to do that every year.”
“This holiday season, I have been hospitalized with a very serious blood infection (Sepsis),” Dee confessed. “I was admitted for three weeks but now I am home fighting this bastard bacteria.”
Sepsis is outlined by the Mayo Clinic as a severe situation that causes the physique’s infection-fighting processes to activate the physique and make the physique’s organs work poorly. Sepsis can result in septic shock — a dramatic drop in blood strain that may harm the lungs, kidneys, liver and different organs — which might be deadly.
“Thankfully, I have received fantastic care at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, [Sweden] my hometown,” the Motörhead alum added.
“So thanks a million to all the Doctors and Nurses that have been giving me the most excellent care. After several operations, I am now back home and the numbers are all going in the right direction. Still lots of recovery and rehab in front of me.”
Dee additionally mentioned that he’s targeted on his restoration so he can carry out on the Scorpions’ upcoming Las Vegas residency.
“Now I’m working a 100% to be back on the drum stool for the Residency that starts off in Las Vegas on February 27,” he wrote. “We have a tremendous 2025 to look forward to, celebrating 60 years of Scorpions and many exciting giggs [sic] around the world.”
He concluded his put up by saying, “the Stinger is out and I can’t wait to see you all out there on the road and rock the hell out of you! I wish everybody a fantastic 2025 with good health and lots of Rock n’ Roll!”
Dee shared extra particulars about his well being struggles with Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet. In keeping with the article, Dee developed the sepsis an infection after spraining his foot in early December. Shortly earlier than Christmas, his situation had worsened and he was hospitalized.
“The ankle swelled up like hell, then it took on a weird shape and appearance and looked like an overcooked ham,” Dee advised the Swedish outlet, per a translation by Blabbermouth.
“I became very ill so I had to go by ambulance to Sahlgrenska and there they found that I had sky-high values, so I became priority one there.”
“It was surgery right away, the first of three,” Dee mentioned. “They cut away what was dead and infected and badly infested. It was not a good journey I was on.”
“Another day and I’d be playing drums with Lemmy [Kilmister of Motörhead] in heaven. I can say that.”
Kilmister — the singer of the band — died from an aggressive most cancers on December 28, 2015, 4 days after his seventieth birthday.
