Billy Joel has provided an replace on his well being after being recognized with a uncommon mind dysfunction that compelled him to cancel all scheduled tour dates.
“I really feel good,” Joel stated on a brand new episode of Invoice Maher’s Membership Random Podcast, which you’ll be able to watch beneath. “They preserve referring to what I’ve as a mind dysfunction, so it sounds rather a lot worse than what I’m feeling.”
The Piano Man introduced in Might that he’d been recognized with regular stress hydrocephalus, a dysfunction the place extra cerebrospinal fluid accumulates within the mind. Medical doctors stated performing exacerbated his situation, “resulting in issues with listening to, imaginative and prescient and stability.”
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These problems led to Joel scrapping all the live shows he had on the books. “I am sincerely sorry to disappoint our viewers,” he stated in an announcement on the time, “and thanks for understanding.”
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Joel additional defined the confusion that usually surrounds his situation and his preliminary ideas on what had brought about it.
“It was known as water on the mind. Now it is known as hydrocephalus — regular stress hydrocephalus,” he stated. “They do not actually know what causes it. I assumed it have to be from ingesting” — which he famous he would not do anymore, “however I used to, like a fish.”
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Regular stress hydrocephalus is “usually misdiagnosed as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s illness,” in response to the Alzheimer’s Affiliation. “In actual fact, lower than 20 p.c of individuals with the illness are correctly recognized.”
“It isn’t fastened. It is nonetheless being labored on,” informed Maher. “I really feel high-quality. My stability sucks. It is like being on a ship.”
Joel is at present selling his new HBO documentary, Billy Joel: And So It Goes. Half one of many two-part movie was launched on Friday.
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