The spouse of The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan has despatched “love and prayers” to these “struggling” as she posted a photograph of the Fairytale Of New York singer in hospital.
Victoria Mary Clarke thanked well-wishers on X, previously Twitter, and revealed the singer’s bandmates Spider Stacy and Terry Woods had visited him not too long ago.
The Irish journalist wrote: “Love and prayers for everybody who’s struggling proper now ❤️ hold in there!”
MacGowan, 65, is believed to have been in intensive take care of the previous few months and was in a hospital mattress with a respiratory equipment within the new image.
He had been recognized with viral encephalitis final yr.
Encephalitis is a severe situation the place the mind turns into infected. It may be life-threatening and requires pressing remedy in hospital.
Ms Clarke stated in an Instagram submit on Saturday that she was “dealing with terrifying fears of loss”.
The 57-year-old wrote: “Love is probably the most stunning and highly effective factor that we will expertise as people however love also can really feel painful particularly in case you are afraid of shedding an individual or anything that you simply love.
“The actually actually huge problem that all of us face is to transcend what our minds suppose are the boundaries of affection and what love actually is.”
Shane MacGowan and Victoria Mary Clarke in 2007. Pic: Richard Younger/Shutterstock
She added: “Typically once you love very deeply you’ll discover your self dealing with terrifying fears of loss that may really feel so huge and devastating that you do not know how one can survive them and you’ll’t think about life with out this particular person that you simply love.
“It is in these moments when you find yourself staring into the abyss that you’ve got a chance… to find extra of who you actually are and extra of who your soul actually is and extra of your reference to this one that you’re keen on.”
The couple married in 2018 at Copenhagen Metropolis Corridor in Denmark after greater than 32 years collectively.
MacGowan has confronted different well being troubles lately – he broke his pelvis in 2015 and has used a wheelchair since.
In 2021 he broke his knee in a fall earlier than tearing ligaments in his left leg.
He by no means totally recovered from his accidents and confirmed in April that he “cannot stroll anymore”.
The Pogues within the Eighties Pic: Everett/Shutterstock
MacGowan has additionally been open about his battle with habit.
In 2015, he obtained a full set of enamel implants as his actual enamel have been destroyed by many years of ingesting and drug use.