Posted on 05/08/2020 1:16:03 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Brian May landed in the hospital this week, but not because of anything coronavirus-related.
On Wednesday, the Queen guitarist and astrophysicist shared an Instagram from the hospital wearing a face mask revealing that he tore his butt muscles "to shreds" while gardening.
"The Virus didn’t get me yet - thank God," May, 72, wrote in the caption. "I managed to rip my Gluteus Maximus to shreds in a moment of over-enthusiastic gardening. So suddenly I find myself in a hospital getting scanned to find out exactly how much I’ve actually damaged myself. Turns out I did a thorough job - this is a couple of days ago - and I won’t be able to walk for a while ... or sleep, without a lot of assistance, because the pain is relentless."
May says that he needs "to go dark for a while, getting some complete rest, at home" due to his injury. "Please, please don’t send me sympathy - I just need some healing silence for a while," he says. "I’ll be back - but I need the complete break."
Along with the selfie, May also shared a video of him being rolled through the hospital. Check out his post below:
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Reality check ! For me. No - the Virus didn’t get me yet - thank God. Hope you’re all keeping extra-safe out there. A decision to relax controls doesn’t suddenly make the danger go away. But me ?? Yes, I’ve been quiet. Reason ? As well as getting over-stretched and harassed by too many demands ... I managed to rip my Gluteus Maximus to shreds in a moment of over-enthusiastic gardening. So suddenly I find myself in a hospital getting scanned to find out exactly how much I’ve actually damaged myself. Turns out I did a thorough job - this is a couple of days ago - and I won’t be able to walk for a while ... or sleep, without a lot of assistance, because the pain is relentless. So, folks ... I need to go dark for a while, getting some complete rest, at home. Please, please don’t send me sympathy - I just need some healing silence for a while. I’ll be back - but I need the complete break. OK ? Thanks. Take care out there. Bri
“Mama...I broke my ass...”
I see what you did there.
Carry on.
It comes on slowly, giving you time to adapt.
Not the member of Queen I would have predicted this happen to.
Maybe he fell backwards, and landed on the pointy hat of a garden gnome that broke under his weight?
Picking up something heavy targets glutes and quads.
Very believeable.
Some guitarists are known as shredders but this takes it to a new extreme.
Worst description of a muscle injury imaginable.
There are many other ways that could have been stated.
I think that reporter just doesn’t like Brian May for whatever reason.
He claims the paintbrush got stuck in there whilst painting the house. An on the ball nurse asked him if he was house painting in the nude
“Party Like a Rock Star, Shred a Little Ass...”
Archie: “We don’t want no more part of ‘em and for your information England is a fag country!” Mike: “What!?” Archie: “Certainly, aren’t they still pickin’ hankerchiefs out of their sleeves? Aren’t they still standin’ around leanin’ on those skinny umbellas like this here? Their whole society is based on kind of a fagdom!”
Maybe the doctors can give Brian a long needed haircut while he’s passed out with anesthetic. There must be some therapeutic reason to justify it.
In the absence of a naturally expectable explanation of how one shreds one’s butt gardening, I gotta’ say: Yeah, riiiiight, as well.
Oh yeah: “One in a million, Doc, one in a million!”
He went vegatarian.... this is what happens when you dont eat meat.
Might have been gathering fertilizer?
Lol! The Britts may garden more energetically ... there was a great British movie about15 years ago that dealt with some middle aged guys “getting the band back together again.” The lead singer was too drug addled to do anything, and some were dead...including one who had “died in a terrible gardening accident.”
I guess gardening is a survival sport on the U.K.
Yes, we all have a tractor story or two.
Their whole society is based on kind of a fagdom!”
Man, I wonder if there is a youtube video entitled Millenial reacts to All in the Family. I’m gonna check.
Kinky. So instead of a gerbil or a lightbulb. he went hardcore.
And inserted a rake.
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