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Conservative radio host Steve Deace was taken to the hospital this week after his wife said he was suffering from severe symptoms brought on by an unspecified “infection.”
Deace’s wife kept supporters updated this week on Twitter, but Steve himself shared a major update on Tuesday morning, the Western Journal’s George Upper noted.
Below is Deace’s full statement that was posted to his Twitter on Tuesday:
Steve here. I’m back, sorta, after a very rough night. Thanks to my awesome wife Amy Deace for handling all this the last 18 hours or so. She got me through this, despite still recovering from a torn meniscus on her end.
Here’s what happened.
On Thursday I started developing an upper body infection out of nowhere. In typical guy fashion, I figured I’d just power through it, even though it got progressively worse throughout the weekend. Monday morning I woke up in searing pain. I went to the urgent care clinic, and they gave me a strong antibiotic and pain relief and I went and did the show from there. I also had a full day of NEFARIOUS meetings/interviews scheduled after the show, too, I couldn’t afford to miss. But I was getting increasingly weaker as the day wore on.
That evening my body completely shut down, and I was having terrible shakes and chills on top of the pain. I started getting disoriented. Amy rushed me to the ER. We were there about 8 hours and I don’t remember a lot of it. I vaguely remember some guys from our small group, and another buddy of mine, came and prayed with me. But I was out of it a lot, and according to Amy babbling incoherently at times. She says this is the worst she’s ever seen me in 27 years.
The ER doctors/nurses at Mercy Westlakes did a tremendous job, despite being overwhelmed with patients, and were able to physically remove a massive bacterial infection from my body in the least painful way possible. I woke up just a little a bit ago feeling the best I have in several days, except for there’s a literal hole in my upper body still healing from where the infection was.
I’m obviously still sore from that, and as a result I will need my first sick day today in 5 years. In fact, I’ll be popping another hydrocodone shortly after publishing this lol. Barring any unforeseen setbacks, I should be back on the show tomorrow.
I can’t tell you how moved both Amy and I were by all the texts, messages, social media posts, etc. we have received with prayers, encouragement, and well wishes. I get choked up as I write this just thinking about it again.
I love y’all too. I am overwhelmed at the support/affection. You might make me have to abandon my black sheep trope once and for all!
Finally, the only two times I’ve had to miss work in the last five years were the result of strange and extremely painful bacteria infections/inflammations, whose origins the doctors weren’t sure of.
One happened at Christmas in 2021, shortly after we wrapped filming of NEFARIOUS in Oklahoma as they tried unsuccessfully to shut down our production. The other just now over Easter, following a successful red carpet premiere. And after receiving news we’ve grown from just over 500 theaters two weeks ago to nearly a thousand nationwide when we open on Friday.
As Nefarious himself would say, “Probably just a coincidence.”
Conservatve “The Blaze” Host Steve Deace Taken To Emergency Room With Severe Infection…Here’s The Latesthttps://t.co/kujbWY7yfW
— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) April 11, 2023
If you can spare a prayer, please do so for the great Steve Deace. https://t.co/ignv3MvbVo
— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) April 11, 2023
BREAKING: Steve Deace, @BlazeTV show host HOSPITALIZED!!! 🙏🏻❤️ https://t.co/xTuGaDLobT
— NBT 2.0 🇺🇸 (@TruthWins26) April 11, 2023
