Daryl Braithwaite is finally on the mend after complications from surgery to remove tumour
SINGER Daryl Braithwaite worried fans when he had to cancel shows due to illness. Now, he’s revealed the health struggles that forced him to take time off.
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DARYL Braithwaite has revealed his recent illness resulted from complications after the removal of a benign tumour from his stomach in December.
The 68-year-old rocker told fans on Facebook he had been readmitted to hospital three times since the surgery due to infection.
But he expects to be fit enough to resume performing this weekend with concerts at Mt Gambier and the St Kilda Festival.
Braithwaite posted that his spleen was also removed during the initial surgery.
“On December 5th last year, I had an operation to remove a benign golf ball size tumour from my abdomen along with my spleen,” he wrote.
“Since then I have been back to Hospital 3 times because of the infection, the last visit was 16 days [ago], after which I came home last Wednesday.
“I am making a good recovery on oral antibiotics and look forward to playing at Mt Gambier and The St Kilda Festival next weekend.”
Braithwaite went on to thank his family, friends, fans and band mates and the caregivers at Cabrini hospital in Melbourne where he has been treated.
He had a special thank you to his longtime pal James Reyne — the pair formed the Company Of Strangers supergroup in 1992.
“Last but not least …. Thanks to James Reyne for his friendship, support and wisdom … I think he now likes The Horses,” Braithwaite quipped.
Reyne once joked that he likes to prank call Braithwaite whenever he hears The Horses played in a supermarket.
“I take great delight, if I hear the songs of one of my friends, in ringing them to inform them their career is officially over because they have been played in the supermarket,” he said.
The pair are part of a weekend line up of concerts at Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens alongside John Farnham, Ross Wilson and Icehouse in March.
Originally published as Daryl Braithwaite is finally on the mend after complications from surgery to remove tumour
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