Ralph Siegel
“I scream through the night”: That’s how bad he feels after the operation
Ralph Siegel
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Ralph Siegel is experiencing challenging times in terms of his health: the composer underwent surgery on his spine in the last days of 2023. The recovery takes a lot of his strength and leaves him with little sleep – and yet there are still small glimmers of hope.
Ralph Siegel is in agony: “I don’t want it like this anymore”
Before the complicated spinal surgery, the composer was at risk of nerve paralysis. Siegel also explained himself to the “Schlager.de” portal by telephone. The journalist reports in his article that he sounded “audibly weakened.” “It’s so bad. I didn’t expect this before. I’m screaming through the night…” Siegel confessed. He’s just tormenting himself and “can actually only lie down. When I try to get up, it becomes unbearable. […] “I don’t want it like that anymore,” the portal continues to quote him.
Siegel’s wife Laura holds his hand
Siegel’s wife Laura Siegel should provide small rays of hope in the painful everyday life. She moved to the hospital with him, reports the musician. And: “She also holds my hand when things get really bad at night. Right now she’s getting me burgers.” Luckily, Siegel thinks: “As we all know, the food in hospitals isn’t that great.”
She is his great support: Laura and Ralph Siegel at the “Bambi” awards in November 2023.
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Ralph Siegel wants to make the big leaps in recovery in rehab. He wanted to go to rehab in Bad Wiessee am Tegernsee on January 8, 2024, he explained just a few days earlier – “if everything goes well.” His goal is to recapture the everyday life that his illness denied him. “I want to be able to walk again. I finally want to be without this cruel pain again,” Siegel is quoted by “t-online”. In the end there is only one thing left for him to say: “What else can I say: hope dies last.”
Sources used: t-online.de, schlager.de, bild.de