THE EDGE THANKFUL FOR BONO’S SWIFT TREATMENT
U2 rocker THE EDGE is relieved his bandmate BONO consulted doctors about his back injury - because if the singer had left it any longer he would h ave suffered "serious and permanent damage".
The band’s frontman was admitted to a specialist neurosurgery unit at a hospital in Munich, Germany on Friday (21May10) after experiencing "seve re pain" and "partial paralysis" during preparations for their rebooted 3 60 Degree world tour. He was immediately referred for emergency back surg ery.
Bono was discharged from the Ludwig Maximilians-University (LMU) Hospit al on Tuesday (25May10) and surgeon Joerg Tonn, who treated the star, has now revealed he was suffering from "severe compression of the sciatic ne rve… a serious tear in the ligament and a herniated disc" and that "dur ing surgery we discovered fragments of the disc had travelled into the sp inal canal".
The Edge has now spoken out about his pal’s condition, following the po stponement of all their upcoming tour dates, and he admits he’s thankful Bono received swift treatment.
In a video posted on the band’s official website, The Edge says, "He wa s in a fairly intense program to be ready for the tour, so something in t hat preparation… maybe he just overdid it and hurt himself maybe withou t realising it and it could have got worse.
"But luckily enough he did realise. I think he realised when he could n o longer walk that actually he needed to go to the doctor and thank God h e did because by the time they got to see him and do the scans they reali sed he had got some fairly major damage and had he not done anything abou t it, it could have been very serious and permanent.
"It was well caught. I think we were very relieved to hear that he had gone to the doctor when he did." And the rocker admits all bandmembers will be keeping a close eye on th e singer: "We have to make sure that he does follow the doctors’ orders, because knowing him he will want to take short cuts and get ahead of hims elf. Really from what I understand, he needs to do this in a very methodi cal way. So we will be there to chain him down if needs be."
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