“I couldn’t do anything to be honest. I couldn’t speak,” the 73-year-old rocker recalled of the health scare.
After his 2019 stroke, he underwent a carotid endarterectomy to remove plaque from the arteries running through his neck to the brain. The doctors warned Rodgers about some serious risks, given that the procedure site was close to his vocal chords. “They told me, they’re very clear, ‘You may not come out of this alive.’ And I said, ‘Oh, well, that’s a plus, isn’t it?'” Rodgers joked. “Fingers crossed, you know? And when I woke up, I opened my eyes, I thought, ‘Oh, I’m still here.
His recovery was long, but Rodgers was able to return to play music six months later. “Each thing was a step forward. Each thing that I did was an achievement. ‘Oh, I can do this. I can sing,'” he recalled., which he says was “kind of a miracle” to complete.
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