{"id":2182116,"date":"2025-11-30T22:11:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T22:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2182116"},"modified":"2025-11-30T22:11:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T22:11:30","slug":"rock-legend-on-life-after-major-stroke-for-now-im-still-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/rock-legend-on-life-after-major-stroke-for-now-im-still-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock legend on life after major stroke: \u2018For now, I\u2019m still here\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"2Z43CARWJFFSFA6BZFYR7RHSLM\">Legendary Queen guitarist Brian May made headlines a year ago when he suffered a stroke, and to his credit it sounds like he is doing just about everything he can to claw his way out of that hole. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"TT4THKD3U5CQVOQPUJR2W5HCNI\">In recent interview on ITV\u2019s \u201cLove Your Weekend,\u201d May outlined his routine as he tries to stay healthy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"XIMARMZETNEFRD4P2UTJTZ2MBQ\">\u201cI keep moving,\u201d<b> <\/b><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/health\/other\/queen-s-brian-may-77-gives-health-update-after-2024-stroke-wake-up-call\/ar-AA1QCs7V?ocid=entnewsntp&amp;pc=U531&amp;cvid=691bbc4234e343c09d6eb9049cb1078f&amp;ei=77\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/health\/other\/queen-s-brian-may-77-gives-health-update-after-2024-stroke-wake-up-call\/ar-AA1QCs7V?ocid=entnewsntp&amp;pc=U531&amp;cvid=691bbc4234e343c09d6eb9049cb1078f&amp;ei=77\"><b>he said. <\/b><\/a>\u201cI do my biking a lot of times a week. I do a hundred lengths in the pool once a week. To me, that\u2019s what\u2019s keeping me going. That\u2019s what\u2019s keeping me alive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"3U2ZYO4AFVHCPBJCZ4LSLAD2WQ\">\u201cSo, for now, I\u2019m still here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ZTUAKSQ4NJCLREAKYFFE7DKHDU\">And, it seems, May considers himself about as lucky as a stroke survivor can be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"VHQPBFVOK5DMXKDRZ2IY2DBLMU\">\u201cI\u2019ve been lucky,\u201d he said. \u201cI get these things, but I seem to be able to get out of them. They give you a wake-up call.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"7QMDH6UHZ5DGRIMLSFAUEOZ7JE\">May revealed last September in a social media post that he had suffered the stroke, and in January his wife, actress Anita Dobson, provided <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/tv\/32863408\/anita-dobson-huge-health-update-husband-brian-may-stroke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\"><b>The Sun<\/b><\/a> with a big update on him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"CHMOQXO3LJE6XNAU4IVO2B7DVI\">\u201cThe start of the year has been up and down,\u201d she said. \u201cWe both had the flu, but we took the kids to Lapland. Fifteen of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"MLDCT7F36JBBTEAZNQJTCYBEWE\">\u201cBrian is stable now,\u201d she added. \u201cBrian has never been happier since we moved. For me it\u2019s been a curveball as I\u2019m a London girl born and bred so going to the countryside to a house that needs a lot of work was a bit of a shock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"XRTBY3X33VHDVNFSNEKZPXS5ME\">She said the move had been great for May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"6OJYNXRZZFF6RDYP3QM5PLUAS4\">\u201cHe loves it,\u201d she said. \u201cHe loves the birds and animals. He feeds all the birds and the badgers, foxes and pheasants. It\u2019s like running a pub for animals. We are going to see some friends in Switzerland and I\u2019ve got another series of Doctor Who coming out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"6KK7ZVXX45GE3KBMHBTOVAVIMQ\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/tv\/32863408\/anita-dobson-huge-health-update-husband-brian-may-stroke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\"><b>She told The Sun<\/b><\/a> they are just \u201ctaking each day as it comes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"L4LC2WABHVEQ7CACTH7AI3AQYQ\">\u201cIt makes you realize that at any minute it could be you,\u201d she said. \u201cYou don\u2019t have necessarily be old. It could be anyone. You think you are fit, you see these people who run marathons and then at a young age they are gone. You have to live every day as if it was your last. It\u2019s not easy to do that. You forget and think I\u2019ve got another week and it\u2019s all booked up. You have to be aware that life is precious and with life changing so fast we are all on a bit of a thin thread if you like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"JDMGKBRG2ZDVLLN6726P4VX3SY\">May was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Queen in 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.pennlive.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary Queen guitarist Brian May made headlines a year ago when he suffered a stroke, and to his credit it sounds like he is doing just about everything he can to claw his way out of that hole. In recent interview on ITV\u2019s \u201cLove Your Weekend,\u201d May outlined his routine as he tries to stay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[25890],"class_list":["post-2182116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-performance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2182116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2182117,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182116\/revisions\/2182117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2182116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2182116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2182116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}