Jimmy Barnes Shares Health Update Amid Celebrity Entertainment Events
Jimmy Barnes' Health Challenges
Rock legend Jimmy Barnes has officially withdrawn from a music festival in the Maldives on doctor’s orders. The 68-year-old — whose well-documented recent health battles have seen him in and out of hospital in the past year — revealed he is tethered to a drip... 24 hours a day.
From Hospital to Heartfelt Apologies
In an Instagram video on Friday night, Barnes apologized that he can’t be with everybody in the Maldives this next coming week for the Stranded in the Maldives celebration at Kandooma Resort until September 11. Ian Moss, Kate Ceberano, Troy Cassar-Daley, and Mahalia Barnes are all due to perform as planned. My family are all en route to the Maldives as we speak ... You’re going to have all my family singing for you, it’s going to be really great, he continued.
- FOMO: Barnes expressed a sense of missing out, stating, if I wasn’t tethered to a drip, I would have loved to be there singing on the beach.
- Barnes also shared: I’m not allowed far from home, Dr’s orders so have an extra good time for me.
Recent Health Trials
Barnes had open-heart surgery last December due to a serious bacterial infection and had returned to the stage at Bluesfest in March before a hip injury earlier in August put him back under the knife. I’ve got some bad news, unfortunately. I had a twinge in my hip when I was leaving Dunedin on Thursday morning and by late last night the pain was unbearable so I went off to hospital.
- The doctors have recommended a remedial medical procedure ASAP followed by some physio to address the issue.
- Providing all goes to plan, I’m expected to make a full recovery in six weeks.
The former Cold Chisel frontman’s solo shows in August and September were also postponed as a result.
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