Legendary Queen guitarist Brian May made headlines a year ago when he suffered a stroke, and to his credit it sounds like he is doing just about everything he can to claw his way out of that hole.
In recent interview on ITV’s “Love Your Weekend,” May outlined his routine as he tries to stay healthy.
“I keep moving,” he said. “I do my biking a lot of times a week. I do a hundred lengths in the pool once a week. To me, that’s what’s keeping me going. That’s what’s keeping me alive.
“So, for now, I’m still here.”
And, it seems, May considers himself about as lucky as a stroke survivor can be.
“I’ve been lucky,” he said. “I get these things, but I seem to be able to get out of them. They give you a wake-up call.”
May revealed last September in a social media post that he had suffered the stroke, and in January his wife, actress Anita Dobson, provided The Sun with a big update on him.
“The start of the year has been up and down,” she said. “We both had the flu, but we took the kids to Lapland. Fifteen of them.
“Brian is stable now,” she added. “Brian has never been happier since we moved. For me it’s been a curveball as I’m a London girl born and bred so going to the countryside to a house that needs a lot of work was a bit of a shock.”
She said the move had been great for May.
“He loves it,” she said. “He loves the birds and animals. He feeds all the birds and the badgers, foxes and pheasants. It’s like running a pub for animals. We are going to see some friends in Switzerland and I’ve got another series of Doctor Who coming out.”
She told The Sun they are just “taking each day as it comes.”
“It makes you realize that at any minute it could be you,” she said. “You don’t have necessarily be old. It could be anyone. You think you are fit, you see these people who run marathons and then at a young age they are gone. You have to live every day as if it was your last. It’s not easy to do that. You forget and think I’ve got another week and it’s all booked up. You have to be aware that life is precious and with life changing so fast we are all on a bit of a thin thread if you like.”
May was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Queen in 2018.
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