Surgery is hard at the best of time. Whether it's something minor and having to coop up in bed for a few days following the procedure, or something a little more major that knocks you out for weeks, that frustrating feeling is still a constant.
But when you're a superstar music icon with a legendary legacy behind you, that feeling must be amplified 10,000 times. As reported by Page Six, he opened up in an interview about his rare brain disorder.
His diagnosis of normal pressure hydrocephalus came last year, as we reported on when he revealed it. And it's something that he needed surgery for.
He said at the time that he was diagnosed after noticing that his balance was "not good". He opted for the surgery because, in his words, "I don't want to lose my marbles."
The music icon continued, "It's hard to tell what's age and what's a condition, so I agreed to do the shunt, and I had surgery, and they implanted a shunt in my brain, and it actually improved things."
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The Surgery Left the Music Icon in Limbo
While he admitted at the time that the surgery had entirely improved his "ability to function", he is still faced with some problems.
"I'm not allowed to drive," he admitted. And that's not all - he must "take a series of tests" before he is cleared to perform again.
In case you weren't aware, the music icon is a pretty big fan of motorcycles. "I ended up having over a hundred motorcycles," he admitted. "The truth is you can only ride one at a time," he said - because of that, he says he's planning on auctioning over 70 of his off.
"I don't want to die like a bug on a windshield... so I thought I'd put a lot of them on auction," he added.
But that decision doesn't come easy to him. "I love motorcycles, I love biking, I love driving, I love the anonymity of it," he explained. "And I love the customization of these bikes, the modifications, the messing around with things. I was not a collector. I was actually a rider. So I figured it was just time to let it go."
