Kyle Sandilands reveals he will undergo surgery for a brain aneurysm
Radio host Kyle Sandilands has revealed a health battle live on air, telling listeners of the show he hosts with Jackie ‘O’ Henderson he is set to undergo surgery.
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Radio host Kyle Sandilands has made a shock announcement live on air, revealing he will go under the knife after being told by doctors he is suffering from a brain aneurysm.
The 53-year-old shared the news with his KIIS breakfast co-host Jackie ‘O’ Henderson at the top of Monday’s show.
“On Friday, I was told by my medical team, which sounds like I’m already very sick, to have a medical team, that I have a brain aneurysm and it requires immediate attention, brain surgery,” he said on KIIS FM on Monday morning.
“If you just tuned in to us after all these years, lap it up. And if you’re in Melbourne, you’re in the part, you’re coming to the party too late. You may get your wish. I may be dead.”
“Lets think positive,” Co-Host Jackie O Henderson said.
“That doesn’t work in real life,” Kyle responded.
Sandilands made light of his diagnosis at times, despite its seriousness, saying he’ll either end up “a vegetable in the wheelchair, or dead”.
“It’s not a blockage. It’s like, imagine your blood vessel is the garden hose, and the garden hose is weak and it blisters out like a big bubble, you know, like a puncture in it, like a bike tire with a big bubble that bubbles the aneurysm, so it’s not blocked,” he said.
“It’s like, it’s expanded and if it bursts, it’s either a vegetable in the wheelchair, or dead.”
On Tuesday last week, Sandilands was not on air on what was the second day back after the non-ratings radio summer holiday break.
Jackie O told listeners at the time that he had vomited on himself.
“Apparently he’s, um, projectile … He’s vomited all over himself this morning,” she said.
Sandilands returned for Wednesday and Thursday but was also off sick on Friday.
Now it can be revealed he was undergoing tests after an appointment with his cardiologist, whom he had been seeing to treat high blood pressure.
He then received a phone call on Friday notifying him surgery would be required over the coming weeks.
A brain aneurysm is “a weakness in a blood vessel in the brain that balloons and fills with blood”.
When asked on air what had prompted him to get medical attention, he said he sought treatment for headaches.
“Because the headaches that come and I can be here for a week and then bang, it could be any day of the week, on the weekend,” he said.
He told the KIIS team that he may need up to eight weeks off while he receives medical attention.
“So anyway, yeah, very bad needs to be but and then I’ll have to have some time off during the I don’t know whether two to eight weeks.
“They can either do keyhole surgery, or they’ll have to cut away parts of my skull and open up my head to fix it.”
In February last year, Sandilands spoke to 7News about his health in an interview for Australian Idol, on which he is a judge.
He spoke of his future and changes in life due to becoming a doting dad to beloved two-year-old son, Otto.
“For years, I just lived hard and fast and recklessly, and did whatever I wanted and wherever, and behaved however I wanted,” he said.
“(But) when you’ve got a child, and you’re 52 (now 53), you think, ‘I best be careful here, there’s much more to live for.”
Speaking to The Sunday Telegraph just a few weeks ago, Sandilands said his whole world changed with the arrival of Otto.
“And all for the better,” he said.
“Better for my longevity for a start because, before the baby, you’d be carrying on here and doing that, and staying up for a couple of days and, oh, then you’re on a plane, you’re doing this and you’re going to this event and that, then you’re up early. So I bashed myself pretty hard. Now I’m very full of regret. I’m like … ahhhh … not there’s anything wrong with me physically, mentally there’s probably a lot of things wrong but I’m not gonna crack that old nut open.”.
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