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Jake Roberts hasn’t been on AEW programming with The Beast Mortos as of late, but there’s a very good reason for it.
On the latest episode of The Snake Pit podcast, the All Elite Wrestling star reveals he was recently hospitalized and was diagnosed with pneumonia among other things.
“I’m doing a little bit better,” Jake Roberts said. “I had a pretty scary moment last week. I got incredibly sick, and I wound up going to the hospital on Friday night. Don’t remember a damn thing. It’s pretty scary. Come to find out I had pneumonia, and that’s not a good thing for me.
“I already have COPD, and to get pneumonia, and that’s not a good thing for me. [It’s] like you’re flirting with disaster there. I was in the hospital for four days, and very grateful to find out that I’ve got a couple of issues and I did not know.
“One is I had blood in my urine, didn’t know that. Another thing is, apparently I’m leaking blood somewhere in my gut, and that’s causing my iron levels to be low. That’s not a good thing. Then to top it off, I got a problem with my ticker.
“But by going in, I caught it, and we got to go have a couple of procedures done, and it’ll be all hunky dory then. I’ve got this cough, but I’m doing better. It’s quite the surprise, man. Next thing I know, I’m waking up in a hospital. That was weird.” [H/T: Fightful]
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What do you make of Jake Roberts’ overall comments? Are you happy to hear he’s on the mend after a recent staying the hospital? Are you looking forward to his return to AEW programming later this year? Let us know your thoughts by sounding off in the comments section below.
