Metal Anarchy

During a recent appearance on the “Još Jedan” podcast, Paul Di’Anno (ex-Iron Maiden) discussed the various health issues he has suffered in recent years. The singer, who has been undergoing lymphatic drainage treatments in Zagreb, Croatia ahead of an upcoming knee surgery, says he almost died of sepsis in 2015.

When asked about his current condition, Di’Anno said he is doing “better,” but went on to say that there is still “a lot of work to do” including “a lot of physio and stuff like that.” He also slammed the UK’s National Health Service:

“Fucking NHS sucks. I was a defender of them big time. But the nurses are awesome and all the workers. It’s the fucking bureaucracy bullshit — the management and the people who run the NHS are just total assholes. But the poor heroes — the nurses and the staff — they’re great, but their hands are tied. So they didn’t know what to do. They just dumped me.”

Di’Anno also added:

“I caught sepsis [when an infection you already have triggers a chain reaction throughout your body] in 2015, and it almost killed me,” he said. “And I spent eight months in a hospital in England. You’ve got a crucial 45 minutes to get as many antibiotics in you before you die, and they managed to do that, which was great. Then I spent eight months in a hospital, and then another three months in a care home. And while I was in there getting things done, on hospital visits, I caught MRSA [Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, an infection caused by a type of staph bacteria that’s become resistant to many of the antibiotics used to treat ordinary staph infections] there twice, in the hospital. So that was it. So it kept delaying things and delaying things… And then they took this knee out put this cement thing in. And it was only supposed to be in there for a year. And the first time they put that in, it broke, so they cut me open again and put another in. And that one is still in here. And while it’s been in there this long, it’s going toxic. So, what the fuck are they doing over there at the NHS?”

“When I arrived here [in Croatia] at the clinic and they were looking me over, they found a fucking staple in my leg which was in there from the operation from four years ago. What’s going on? There’s gonna be a lawsuit, by the way. [Laughs]”

[via Blabbermouth]