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Danny Bonaduceis on the mend following brain surgery on Monday.
The 63-year-oldPartridge Familystartweeteda bold, “I lived, bitch,” after completing brain surgery for hydrocephalus — a neurological disorder that results in fluid in the brain.
Prior to Bonaduce’s tweet, his wife Amy also shared an update about his recovery onTwitter.
“It’s been a long day but I just wanted to let you guys know that Danny’s surgery went according to plan and he’s doing well,” she wrote on Monday evening.
Bonaduce’s rep also confirmed to PEOPLE that Amy shared the surgery “went well.”
Last week, Bonaduce — who iscurrently unable to walkdue to aonce-mysterious illness— toldTMZthat he planned to have surgery to address his hydrocephalus diagnosis.
“My life was talking to doctors. I had meetings with five doctors on one single day, and nobody could figure out what it was,” the radio host told the outlet. “And I thought, ‘Well, this is a big deal. I’m falling down now. That can’t be good.’”
Bonaduce said he met with “100 doctors” before one eventually diagnosed him with hydrocephalus. Still, there’s no telling why the illness started.
During surgery, Bonaduce was scheduled to have a stent and a drainage port placed in his brain.
“From what I hear, if the diagnosis is correct, it’ll be 50 percent better right [away]. But I’d rather be safe than sorry,” he continued. “I don’t wanna get my hopes up too much that I’ll be cured … I will be completely bummed out if this doesn’t work. I can’t walk currently, I just can’t.”
Bonaduce’s end goal isn’t to get his past mobility back, though — but rather to make daily routines more manageable. “I’m never gonna run track. I’m never gonna box again. But if I can get from here to the kitchen on my own, bravo,” he added.
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Bonaduce currently hostsThe Danny Bonaduce & Sarah Morning Showon iHeart Radio. Hetook a leave of absence from the showin April 2022 before receiving his diagnosis.
At the time, Bonaduce’s health was rapidly declining, and he still had no answers. But he applauded the network for its support. (All episodes of Bonaduce’s show are currently streaming from his dining room.)
“I was afraid I was gonna lose my job every single day. I thought, ‘Well that’s it. They’re not gonna tolerate this anymore ‘cause I missed a fair amount of work,’” he said. “What they did was, they put a studio — a small one — in my house.”
source: people.com
