🥁 IRON MAIDEN Drummer's Incredible Comeback After Suffering Stroke! 💪

[Music] foreign maiden's nickel mcbrain has revealed that he had suffered a stroke earlier this year the 71 year old drummer shared the news of the medical episode in a statement posted via iron maiden's official website revealing that the episode left him paralyzed down one side of his body and left him worried that his career with the band was over mcbrain's statement reads as follows I hope this message finds you all well the reason I'm writing to you all today is to let you know of a very serious health problem that I have been through in January I had a stroke thank the Lord it was a minor one referred to as a TIA it left me paralyzed on my right side from my shoulder on down of course I was very worried that my career was over but with the love and support from my wife Rebecca and family my doctor especially Julie my occupational therapist and my maiden family I was able to bounce back to somewhere near 70 percent recovered after 10 weeks of intense therapy it was almost time to start rehearsals for our tour I feel it's important to let you know about this now instead of earlier as I was mainly concerned with doing my job and concentrating on getting back to 100 Fitness I'm not there yet but by the grace of God I'm getting better and stronger as the weeks go by thank you all for a most wonderful and magical tour so far you have all been so amazing well that's it from me God bless you all stay safe and well and I look forward to seeing you all Somewhere in Time manager Rod Smallwood added the rest of the band and I'll think that what Nico has been able to achieve since his stroke shows incredible belief in willpower and we are all very proud of him with this new and musically very complex set to learn ahead of him he just got his head down and concentrated on recovery we honestly did not know if he would be able to play a whole show until band rehearsals started in May and there was just so much support for him from the band and then genuine relief for all when we saw he was going to be able to do it Nico being Nico he did not want to make a fuss and cause any distraction to the tour at the time but now that he is sure he will soon get there he thought you fans should know straight from him rather than by any rumors we are all of course delighted he battled through this so well and look forward to many more tours together starting with the three western Canada shows and Power Trip in California coming up in a couple of months time we can't wait this tour is that good Rick brain was diagnosed with stage one laryngeal cancer in 2020 and opened up about it in a single interview in 2021 but otherwise kept it mostly Under Wraps the now 71 year old musician received his cancer diagnosis after undergoing an endoscopy at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center part of the University of Miami Health System and the Miller School of Medicine within a week mcbrain's cancer was surgically removed and he now gets checkups every few months to make sure the cancer hasn't returned mcbrain who had the cancer in a part of his vocal cords isn't the first member of Maiden to beat cancer back in late 2014 iron maidens Bruce Dickinson was diagnosed with throat cancer the singer who had a golf ball-sized tumor on his tongue and another in the lymph node on the right side of his neck got the all clear in May 2015 after radiation and nine weeks of chemotherapy foreign [Music]

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Length: 3min 19sec (199 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 03 2023