Luchasaurus provides details about his battle with pneumonia in both lungs
While appearing on Chris Jericho’s podcast, Luchasaurus provided details about his battle with pneumonia that put him out of action in AEW for several months…
“I ended up getting sick, and I got Pneumonia, right which took me into a situation where I was in bed with oxygen for a month.
It got to the point where I was about to go out the door for—we were in New York City for AEW Grand Slam. It was the last time we did that. And I was about to hop on the plane, and I had this cold that wouldn’t go away. And something inside of me was just like, ‘I can’t get on that plane. I feel weird.’
So I texted the doc, and he’s like, ‘Yeah, stay home.’ You know, and they covered for me at work creatively that week.
Then they gave me antibiotics, but it wasn’t getting better. And then all of a sudden, I just felt really bad one day, and we thought it was maybe a pulmonary embolism.
So then they’re like, ‘No, you actually have pneumonia, but it’s spread to both lungs.’ So like, ‘We can give you this medicine and just pray, you know—just hope.’
But then I realized—I started learning about actually how fragile your lungs are. And I’m like, ‘Oh my God, this was a lot.’ Basically, he [Brodie Lee] kind of started with something similar to what I had. I’m not sure on all the details, but I do know that he ended up having to go on the ventilator.
And that’s what you don’t want to have happen, because if you panic on the ventilator, you can blow everything out.
I never got to the ventilator, they just needed oxygen to get my oxygen back up. The antibiotics worked, and I was actually cleared within three months of it.”