Elton John says ‘extreme eye an infection’ brought about ‘restricted imaginative and prescient’

Elton John is recovering from a scary well being analysis.

“Over the summer time,” the music icon defined within the Instagram publish under, “I have been coping with a extreme eye an infection that has sadly left me with solely restricted imaginative and prescient in a single eye. I’m therapeutic, but it surely’s an especially sluggish course of and it’ll take a while earlier than sight returns to the impacted eye.”

He went on to specific his gratitude for his medical workforce and his household. After spending the summer time at residence, John stated he feels “constructive” about his therapeutic up to now.

It was simply greater than a yr in the past that the 77-year-old British singer-songwriter fell at his residence within the south of France, requiring him to spend an evening at a neighborhood hospital. In 2021, he postponed dates on his Farewell Yellow Brick Street tour in an effort to have speedy surgical procedure after one other fall.

That wasn’t vital this time round, because the “Your Music” artist retired from touring final yr, going out after one in every of his signature hit-filled concert events in Stockholm in July 2023.

The EGOT winner stated then that whereas his touring days had been ending, that did not imply that he was leaving the stage fully.

“I’ll by no means be touring once more, however I could do one thing sooner or later — a one-off factor,” John advised the group. “However that is miles away. I need to admire my household, my sons, my husband, every part.”

The artist behind “Levon,” “Bennie and the Jets,” “Tiny Dancer,” and lots of extra hits, is married to longtime companion and husband David Furnish. They share two sons: 13-year-old Zachary and Elijah, 11.

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