Former MTV video jockey Matt Pinfield has introduced that he’s “fighting my way back” after struggling an enormous stroke earlier this yr.
Pinfield, 63, shared the well being replace by way of X on Friday, April 25.
“Slowly but surely recovering..lots of physical therapy..Fighting my way back!” the previous VJ wrote. “One day at a time.”
Pinfield’s progress report got here as he introduced he will likely be internet hosting a ceremony on Could 1 to unveil Inexperienced Day’s star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame.
The previous SiriusXM host suffered an enormous stroke in January after years of well being issues. Previous to the stroke, Pinfield was hospitalized in 2018 after being hit by a automobile. He additionally spent a stint in rehab for substance abuse and coronary heart points in 2017.
Throughout an interview with The Hollywood Reporter final month, Pinfield revealed that he had been “unresponsive for two months” and “close” to not surviving the aftermath of his stroke.
“Guys, I’m alive,” he advised the outlet on March 13. “I’m recovering and am going to come back swinging. I was unresponsive for two months. Friends were thinking they were coming to see me for the last time. The doctors never expected me to speak or to walk again.”
Pinfield added that his oldest daughter, Jessica, took over non permanent guardianship of his medical and monetary selections whereas he was hospitalized within the ICU.
“She’s the one who saved my life,” he mentioned. “She protected me.”
The SoCal Sound host first made his mark on the leisure trade within the Nineteen Nineties, internet hosting MTV’s various rock present “120 Minutes.” Earlier than that, he appeared on an episode of “The Real World.”
Pinfield later labored as vice chairman of A&R at Columbia Data from 2001 to 2006 earlier than internet hosting a number of radio and TV packages on FM, Sirius XM radio and AXS TV.
“I always loved Lou Reed. So it was a big deal for me when he came down and did ‘120 Minutes’ at the old National Studios,” he advised The Submit in 2012 relating to his favourite NYC venues and encounters with rock icons.
“Hanging with Lou was like a childhood dream come true,” Pinfield famous on the time. “He later went on the record to say that ‘120 Minutes’ was best when I hosted it, so that meant the world to me.”
After being discharged from the ICU in late February, Pinfield thanked everybody who wished him properly.
“I want to say how grateful I am for all the people who were wishing me well,” he mentioned. “The love of the community helped me get through this.”
Pinfield additionally introduced that he deliberate to return to work.
“I’m definitely going to take some time to recover,” he mentioned final month. “Then I’ll do my radio shows again and get back to work doing what I love, which is to entertain people playing music.”
