Seven months following his stroke, Brian May‘s wife Anita Dobson has privided an update on the iconic guitarist’s health.
In May of this year, the 77-year old member of Queen suffered a stroke and was rushed to hospital unable to use his arm.
Coping with her husband’s medical emergency, Brian’s 75-year old wife told The Mirror in England:
“He’s much better now, he’s stabilized now, which is brilliant,”. “‘I just hope we don’t have any more reoccurrences. He’s got the use of that arm, which was a bit of a challenge, back now.” “So, yeah, he’s good to go now. He’s playing the piano quite a lot in the house. He likes a lot of Beethoven. I love it – the piano in the house is really, just very relaxing.”
Adding that May waited several months prior to playing music in order not to overdo it, Anita said:
“He didn’t actually try (to play an instrument) until after he’d recovered quite a bit. And then he very slowly started to pick up an acoustic guitar and gradually just exercise the muscles. And it very quickly came back. He’s just retraining the messages from your brain to that arm, that it’s actually okay to do what it used to do. It was scary.” “And also being a genius for someone like that. His brain’s overloaded, that’s what it is. He’s too clever for his own good.”
Along with Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Taylor, Brian co-founded Queen and was the lead guitarist and backing vocalist in the band.
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