Anthony B thanks UHWI medical staff after life-saving surgery, returns to stage
Reggae firebrand artiste Anthony B will be making his return performance Friday at the Reggae on the River show in California, after recuperating from surgery to correct a life-threatening medical condition.
The medical condition – revealed to be a punctured intestine – nixed his Reggae Sumfest performance last month.
The Fire Pon Rome singer revealed that he felt a terrible pain in his belly during his Reggae Sumfest rehearsal with his band at Downsound Records.
“I felt this pain in my belly, terrible terrible. I went to the hospital and they said I have a punctured tripe, something leaking inside of me, so I had to go to the emergency room and do an emergency surgery immediately,” Anthony B revealed in a video posted to his Instagram account.
The doctors performed the live-saving surgery and he was discharged on July 30. He thanked the medical staff at University Hospital of the West Indies who competently performed the difficult surgical procedure. He was unconscious for 48 hours after the surgery.
“I want to also thank the medical staff at University Hospital in Mona, yes I gotta big them up. It was 9,10 hours of surgery. I went in after 12 on the 18th of July and I didn’t wake up until the 20th of July. It was when I woke up that I realised all the things my body went through. Hose through my nose, hose here and there so I am here, alive, giving thanks, so I want to big up all the doctors and I told them thanks a thousand times,” he said.
The Raid the Barn singer had a sobering reminder about the fragility of life and how in one instant, it could all be taken away.
“No one knows the minute, no one knows the second, we are here because of the grace and mercy of the Creator of all things, the father of all things, the giver of life, so for all things that I do I will forever be giving thanks to the Most High to be here,” Anthony B said.
Anthony B acknowledged the support of Reggae Sumfest’s Josef Bogdanovich and Cordel ‘Skatta’ Burrell, and his own family unit during his ordeal.
— Claude Mills