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Danny Bonaducerevealed he’s getting brain surgery in hopes of curing his recent neurological disorder diagnosis.
The Partridge Familyalum, who iscurrently unable to walkdue to aonce-mystery illness, toldTMZthat doctors believe he has hydrocephalus — a neurological disorder that results in fluid in the brain.
“My life was talking to doctors. I had meetings with five doctors on one single day, and nobody could figure out what it was,” the radio host, 63, told the outlet. “And I thought, ‘Well, this is a big deal. I’m falling down now. That can’t be good.’”
PEOPLE has reached out to Bonaduce’s rep for comment.
Bonaduce said he met with “100 doctors” before one eventually diagnosed him with hydrocephalus. Still, there’s no telling why the illness started.
Bonaduce will now have to have surgery that will place a stent and a drainage port in his brain.
“From what I hear, if the diagnosis is correct, it’ll be 50 percent better right [away]. But I’d rather be safe than sorry,” he continued. “I don’t wanna get my hopes up too much that I’ll be cured … I will be completely bummed out if this doesn’t work. I can’t walk currently, I just can’t.”
But the end goal isn’t to get all mobility back, either. It’s just to make daily routines more feasible for Bonaduce. “I’m never gonna run track. I’m never gonna box again. But if I can get from here to the kitchen on my own, bravo,” he added.
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Bonaduce currently hostsThe Danny Bonaduce & Sarah Morning Showon iHeart Radio. Hetook a leave from the showin April 2022 before receiving his diagnosis.
At the time, Bonaduce’s health was rapidly declining, and he still had no answers. But he applauded the network for its support. (All episodes of Bonaduce’s show are currently streaming from his dining room.)
“I was afraid I was gonna lose my job every single day. I thought, ‘Well that’s it. They’re not gonna tolerate this anymore ‘cause I missed a fair amount of work,’” he said. “What they did was, they put a studio — a small one — in my house.”
source: people.com
