Elton John, well-known for his attention-grabbing eyewear, is dealing with a unique sort of imaginative and prescient problem that glasses received’t repair.
The spectacularly spectacled Rocket Man has revealed he has been battling a critical optic an infection that has left him with “restricted imaginative and prescient” in one among his eyes.
“Over the summer season, I’ve been coping with a extreme eye an infection that has sadly left me with solely restricted imaginative and prescient in a single eye,” John, 77, wrote in a publish on Instagram.
“I’m therapeutic, but it surely’s an especially gradual course of and it’ll take a while earlier than sight returns to the impacted eye.”
The legendary piano man behind classics resembling “Crocodile Rock,” “Bennie and the Jets” and “Don’t Let the Solar Go Down on Me” went on to specific his gratitude for his caregivers.
“I’m so grateful for the superb crew of medical doctors and nurses and my household, who’ve taken such excellent care of me during the last a number of weeks,” he wrote.
“I’ve been quietly spending the summer season recuperating at residence, and am feeling optimistic concerning the progress I’ve made in my therapeutic and restoration up to now.”
He signed the publish, “With love and gratitude, Elton John.”
Final 12 months, the British icon wrapped up his Farewell Yellow Brick Street Tour — his goodbye to the street — in Stockholm, Sweden, after 5 years and greater than 300 exhibits worldwide.
For John, the farewell tour — which grossed greater than $900 million in ticket gross sales — was the career-capping end result of “52 years of pure pleasure enjoying music.”
However, though he should be enjoying extra live shows, it was time to say goodbye to touring.
“I wish to recognize my household, my sons, my husband, every part,” stated John, who has two sons — Zachary, 13, and Elijah, 11 — with husband David Furnish. “I’ve earned it.”
Nonetheless, John hasn’t gone utterly MIA since telling followers that they’ll ceaselessly stay in his “head, coronary heart and soul” on the finish of his farewell tour.
In June, Sir Elton joined President Biden for the grand opening of the Stonewall Nationwide Monument Customer Heart on the Stonewall Inn in New York’s Greenwich Village that birthed America’s homosexual rights motion 55 years in the past.
In March, the “Your Track” singer stored up his Oscars custom by holding his annual Elton John AIDS Basis Academy Awards Viewing Occasion.
Plus, in January, the Rock & Roll Corridor of Famer grew to become an EGOT winner after incomes his first Emmy for his Disney+ particular “Elton John Stay: Farewell from Dodger Stadium.”
