anybody see this Daryl Hall on Inside Edition..Sorry if it's old news but I just heard..Thanks Daryl!!!
Daryl Hall Breaks His Silence About His Battle With Lyme Disease
Daryl Hall talks to Inside Edition about his battle with lyme disease.
In his first TV interview since his diagnosis, Daryl Hall, half of the legendary musical duo, Hall and Oates, breaks his silence on his battle with lyme disease.
Hall says he was on tour last July with former bandmate, John Oates, when the symptoms first hit him.
He tells, Inside Edition, "I was in the middle of a song and it just felt like a complete core body shutdown. Its like somebody just turned the switch. I felt like I was going to faint, throw up, fall downeverything all at once."
Hall and Oates cancelled what was scheduled to be a summer-long tour and, at the urging of his then girlfriend, he got tested for lyme disease, which is caused by a single bite from a tick carried by deer.
Hall says he had mixed feelings about the diagnosis, which can be deadly. "At first, I had relief because I said, okay, now I know that I have something, but then the fear came. The more I read about this, the more I heard about it, the more it scared me," he said.
Lyme disease can cause heart problems, stroke, arthritis, memory loss, blindness and mood swings.
Hall says he decided to go public because he says there are so many misconceptions about the disease and its treatment. "It's really paradoxical and confusing that something as serious as this disease is so misunderstood and underplayed."
He continues, "I hear, you just take a course of antibiotics and its over. It's like you get it and people think it's nothing. That's the crime of the whole situation."
Hall's been taking massive doses of antibiotics for a year and hopes he can beat the disease. Meanwhile, he's teamed up again with John Oates for a new US tour, and will appear on this Thursday's episode of Will & Grace.
Posted by jwenny (Member # 8831) on :
I saw the article for the first today also.
What would be interesting is to see what his regiment was since stars seem to get the best treatment.
Posted by jwenny (Member # 8831) on :
I saw the article for the first today also.
What would be interesting is to see what his regiment was since stars seem to get the best treatment.
Posted by Foggy (Member # 1584) on :
Daryl Hall and other notables with Lyme should get on Larry King to give this illness more exposure.
Posted by daniella (Member # 6753) on :
YES! Larry King would be a GREAT IDEA!.........
Posted by Nal (Member # 6801) on :
I wish he would be more pro-active with it. We could use him.
Nancy
Posted by concerned mother (Member # 8128) on :
Inside Edition is on at 1:00 in the morning here in my town! Not too many people up and watching it but I did tape it! I also e mailed Inside Edition and thanked them wish Darryl would do more!
Posted by AP (Member # 8430) on :
He talked about Lyme briefly on Inside Edition on 08 February.
Posted by Mathias (Member # 5298) on :
Good a high visibility, no "quick fix" case. That good for all lymies.
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