LOS ANGELES — Rocker and reality star Bret Michaels remains in critical condition after suffering a massive brain hemorrhage late Thursday that has doctors puzzled.
"At this point Bret remains in ICU in critical condition," his rep said Sunday in an update posted on BretMichaels.com. "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."
The musician’s father, Wally Sychak, told RadarOnline that he spoke to his son in the hospital on Friday and he was doing well despite being in intensive care.
"He sounded upbeat and positive but they had him sedated," Sychak said. "But he’s doing good. He sounded like my son."
The brain hemorrhage is the latest setback for Michaels, who is a diabetic. Earlier this month, he underwent an emergency appendectomy in San Antonio after he fell ill just before he was about to take the stage for a concert at SeaWorld.
"I’m feeling right about in the middle right now on a scale of 1 to 10," Michaels wrote just days ago on his Fancast blog. "I’m not 100% yet, but I’m sure as hell not where I was when it happened. When your appendix ruptures if feels like what it would feel if you’re on the losing end of a knife fight, so it takes a bit to recover from that."
Michaels rose to fame in the ’80s as the frontman of glam-rock band Poison. He has since become a popular reality television figure. In addition to starring on VH1’s Rock of Love, Michaels currently appears on the latest edition of NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice.
"I am deeply saddened to hear about Bret Michaels and my thoughts and prayers are with him and his family at this time," his Apprentice boss, Donald Trump, said Saturday in a statement. "He’s a great competitor and champion and I hope he will be fine."
American Superstar sends its thoughts and prayers to Bret Michaels for a full and speedy recovery.
