Iconic '90s Comedian Sinbad Learning To Walk Again After Near-Fatal 2020 Stroke

22.11.2022 - 23:39 / perezhilton.com

Sinbad is still fighting to get back to his old self.

It was almost exactly two years ago that the comedian (whose real name is David Adkins) suffered a debilitating stroke. His family released a statement in November of 2020 asking for prayers for their “beloved husband and father”:

Now, on Monday, the Adkins family released another statement via a website titled The Journey Forward — and they’re revealing exactly what happened.

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According to the site’s title page, the actor suffered not one — but two — blood clots:

Oh no!

After the then-64-year-old’s second surgery, a brain bleed was discovered by the medical team and he was put back into the ICU:

When the comedian finally woke up weeks later, he suffered serious amounts of paralysis across his body:

Heartbreaking…

The family notes for the next several months after that, Sinbad was moved around to different intense care facilities where he began the recovery process. Luckily, though, he made “considerable progress” and was even allowed to come home in July 2021 — nine months after he initially had the stroke.

Since then he’s only gotten stronger and stronger. In fact, he’s regaining control of body parts which were believed to be “dead”:

The website notes that the survival odds of something like this are extremely low — but the 66-year-old has already come so far in his journey:

Sadly, the medical bills for the First Kid star have become a struggle for his family, so they’re using the site as a place where people can donate to help cover the costs. The comic himself even put an optimistic statement on the page, saying he can’t wait to see everyone “very soon”:

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