Radar Online is reporting that Bret Michaels‘ sister, Michelle called in to The Todd N Tyler Radio Empire show yesterday and told them Bret is:

“definitely doing better and he was starting to walk a little bit.”He’s up and moving but it is not going to surprise me if he is still in the Icu on Friday.  I think they’re having a problem really getting the bleed…I think there are some issues…that’s why the back pain.”

His speech is not slurred anymore but  he still has pain.  ”What’s happened is that all the blood in his brain is starting to drain and he’s starting to have a lot of back pain.  I can hear it in his voice.”

His neurological surgeon Dr. Joseph M. Zabramski of the St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Centre in Phoenix, Arizona where Bret is, will hold a news conference today at noon to update the public on Bret’s condition.

Michelle goes on to say:

“The fact that he got medical treatment right away, he went immediately and because there is one of the best neurological centers in America there he was very fortunate and I think he will recover quickly and it wouldn’t surprise me to see him back there sooner than most”

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TMZ is reporting that Bret Michaels is ‘in good spirits and talking’ after he was rushed to the hospital yesterday complaining of a blinding headache that turned out to be a “subarachnoid hemorrhage”  which is bleeding at the base of his brain stem.

This comes just after Bret was released from the hospital for having his appendix removed when he was rushed to the hospital with stomach pain.  Cedars-Sinai told TMZ the next 24-48 hours are critical because:

people who don’t receive proper medical treatment after suffering a subarachnoid hemorrhage have a 20% to 30% chance of experiencing a second bleed within the first month — and the odds of surviving a second bleed are extremely slim.  ”Recurrent bleeding has a 70% mortality rate.”

Our thoughts and prayers are with Bret Michaels for a full recovery.

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