Solo artist and Chilly Chisel frontman Jimmy Barnes is again on his ft and “up and strolling slowly”, three weeks after canceling his summer season tour.
The 66-year-old singer went in for surgical procedure on Tuesday, together with his daughter Elly Could Barnes posting a photograph of the singer in a hospital mattress with an x-ray of his hip.
On Wednesday afternoon, his spouse Jane shared a “Hip Op replace”.
“Tubes out, drains out, up and strolling slowly.
“To this point so good. Unimaginable,” she mentioned.
Barnes, smiling – and standing with the assistance of a strolling body – additionally shared a message with a hope he is perhaps house for Christmas.
“Your on going messages of encouragement have been uplifting, they bought me on my ft immediately!
“Seems to be I am right here for some time. The group are taking wonderful care of me however I hope I will be house for Christmas,” he wrote.
Barnes canceled his tour, which was to help the re-issue of his 1991 soul and motown covers album Soul Deepafter coping with extreme ache from years of grueling performances.
The cancellations included a deliberate Byron Bay Bluesfest unveiling of his new venture band, The Barnestormers.
In a press release on November 29, Barnes mentioned he had endured again and hip issues for years.
However, it had gotten worse in latest weeks, leaving him in “fixed and extreme ache”.
“I’ve had niggling again and hip points for years, however issues out of the blue bought loads worse over the previous couple of weeks and I am now in fixed and extreme ache.
“As all people is aware of, it is towards my faith to blow out gigs however the medical doctors inform me I would like an operation as quickly as doable and it’ll actually restrict my motion for just a few months.
“As a lot because it kills me to inconvenience everybody, I’ve to get this mounted so I can bounce round onstage for one more 50 years,” he mentioned on the time.
Barnes underwent emergency again surgical procedure in 2014 after struggling issues from an earlier process.
Elly Could Barnes wrote on Barnes’ official Twitter account: “My dad is out of surgical procedure and awake,” she mentioned.
“The medical doctors are very glad… Thanks for all of the effectively needs.”
Scottish-born Barnes joined Adelaide-based Chilly Chisel within the early 1970s and the band went on to launch a string of hit albums.
He launched into a profitable solo profession in 1983, though the band reunited in 1997.
Barnes additionally had open coronary heart surgical procedure in 2007 to right a congenital situation.
