Jimmy Buffett’s Health: Why The Singer’s Been Hospitalized & His Condition Now

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Image Credit: Matt Baron/Shutterstock Jimmy Buffett is simply a singer-songwriter champion known for songs “Margaritaville” and “Come Monday.” In 2023, Jimmy, 76, had to reschedule a performance to code immoderate wellness issues. Jimmy said that “growing aged is not for sissies” and didn’t hint what his wellness contented was.

“Hello, my faithful fans successful Charleston and beyond,” wrote Jimmy Buffett at the commencement of the Facebook message helium posted connected May 18. Sadly, Jimmy, 76, had to denote that helium and the Coral Reefer Band’s May 20 performance astatine the Credit One Stadium was being rescheduled owed to a wellness issue. “These fewer words from Mark Twain about beingness changes look cleanable to walk connected astatine this time,” wrote Jimmy. “‘Challenges,’ helium said, ‘make beingness interesting. However, overcoming them is what makes beingness meaningful.’ I had a abrupt alteration of plans this week that affected america all.”

“Two days ago,” continued Jimmy, “I was conscionable backmost from a travel to the Bahamas, thawing retired from the California’ wintertime tour’ and chomping astatine the spot to get to Charleston. I had to halt successful Boston for a check-up but coiled up backmost successful the infirmary to code immoderate issues that needed contiguous attention. Growing aged is not for sissies, I committedness you. I volition besides committedness you, that erstwhile I americium good capable to perform, that is what I’ll beryllium doing successful the onshore of She-Crab soup.”

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“You each marque my beingness much meaningful and fulfilled than I would person ever imagined arsenic a toe-headed small lad sitting connected the borderline of the Gulf of Mexico,” helium added. “Thank you for your prayers and thoughts, your astonishing years of loyalty, and conscionable remember, ‘NOT YET!'”

As Jimmy recovers, here’s what we cognize astir his health.

How Long Has Jimmy Buffett Been Sick?

It’s unclear what Jimmy is dealing with. However, successful September 2022, helium had to postpone the remainder of his Flipside – Redux Tour owed to a wellness issue. “Due to wellness issues and little hospitalization, Jimmy volition request to refrain from touring for the remainder of the year. On doctor’s orders, helium indispensable instrumentality this clip to recuperate and heal,” work the connection helium shared connected Instagram. “Jimmy looks guardant to getting backmost connected signifier adjacent year.” Three dates – 2 successful Las Vegas and 1 successful San Diego – were rescheduled, portion dates successful Salt Lake City, UT, and Nampa, ID, were canceled.

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 For Jimmy, it was conscionable a setback successful an breathtaking life. He’s a roadworthy warrior, having toured relentlessly passim the past 50 years. As helium would archer Rolling Stone, he’s besides had a fewer adjacent calls successful his life. In 1994, helium crashed a Grumman G-44 Widgeon twin-engine craft portion attempting to instrumentality disconnected successful the waters of Nantucket, Massachusetts. He was capable to flight with conscionable insignificant injuries, per the Buffett World website.

How Is Jimmy Buffett Doing Today?

Jimmy has maintained a affirmative cognition astir his mortality contempt the recurring wellness issues. “When you’ve had a mates of adjacent calls — an airplane crash, a signifier dive — you deliberation you’re astir apt surviving connected borrowed time,” helium told Rolling Stone in 2020. “So I benignant of bash take to unrecorded similar it’s my past day. You ne'er know. At [his age], you’re losing a batch of friends, and it’s a changeless progression towards … y’know, what’s there. Everybody goes astatine immoderate point.”

Jimmy Buffett and his wife, Jane Slagsvol, successful 2023 (Anthony Harvey/Shutterstock)

He besides spoke astir cutting backmost connected partying since it affected his performance. “They telephone it ‘take the wealth and run’ shows, wherever you whitethorn not consciousness your best, and the assemblage won’t cognize it, due to the fact that they’re truthful blessed to beryllium there. But I consciousness unspeakable erstwhile those things happen. I ne'er wanted to bash different [show similar that]. And it frightened maine to death,” helium said. “You deliberation you’re bulletproof. You’re successful stone & roll. Drugs oregon enactment — everything was around. But I didn’t privation to marque my household ashamed of me. And that was a precise beardown deterrent; it helped maine marque that alteration successful my beingness astatine that time.”

When asked however Jimmy wanted to beryllium remembered, helium said this:” ‘He had a bully clip and made a batch of radical happy’ would beryllium good.”

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