Jerry Lawler has given a new update regarding his recovery in a new interview.
The legendary commentator was rushed to hospital in February after suffering a stroke. After undergoing emergency surgery, Jerry Lawler’s condition was described as “very serious.”
In a new interview with Bill Apter, The King detailed his road to recovery. First, Lawler stated that he is having multiple rehab sessions each week and noted that his voice has changed:
Well, I’ve had a bunch of different things done. And I’m still going to heat rehab, three times a week. And probably the main thing that’s drawing me back now as you could probably tell as you hear me talk, my voice is not the same as it was beforehand. It’s slowly coming back. But it needed to come back a little more before I could go and do a lot of just making sense with my speech and vocabulary.
I really don’t do a lot. I just stay around the house and do 3 rehab sessions a week, where I go into hospital. And then I do some more at home here in Memphis. And that’s pretty much it. One is speech that’s my main one. That’s three times a week. And it’s just well I mean, when I’ve just started this. Right after I had the stroke, I could barely talk.
The Hall of Famer continued to detail his speech therapy and how his artistic ability is slowly starting to return:
Yeah, well, now I go in and I just sit down with this rehab lady and we just talk about different things. And she had me read stuff and all of this stuff has just helped me day in and day out which will get my vocabulary better. And then I did, it’s where my right arm and my right leg and everything on my right side of my body is still; it’s not hurt me where I can’t walk around, I can still walk around. But I don’t have really good control of writing my autograph. It’s just I mean, I can write my autograph pretty good.
But you know, I’ve been so proud of my autograph and adding artistic ability to it. But that’s all sort of, it’s taken a while to come back.
Concluding the interview, Lawler thanked everyone who had sent their well wishes:
Well, I would like to say thank you for being concerned and being well, just concerned and worried about my upkeeping and what I’ve had going on. It’s just awesome to know that there are fans out there that really wondering what am I doing during my time off. And it’s nice to talk to them
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