{"id":807419,"date":"2020-05-14T06:14:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T12:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=999484"},"modified":"2020-05-14T06:14:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T12:14:59","slug":"ian-anderson-clarifies-statements-on-lung-disease-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/ian-anderson-clarifies-statements-on-lung-disease-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Anderson Clarifies Statements on Lung Disease Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ian Anderson<\/a> has released a statement clarifying his diagnosis of COPD<\/a>, an incurable lung disease that the Jethro Tull<\/a> frontman first opened up about in an interview with Dan Rather<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThanks for your concern but no worries about my diagnosed COPD and asthma,\u201d he writes. \u201cI have had 14 months with no infections and no bronchitis so last year was the first since my twenties when I didn\u2019t get sick at all. The conditions I have are early-stage and I plan to keep them that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anderson clarified that when he mentioned that his \u201cdays are numbered\u201d to Rather, he meant as a singer, not days to live. \u201cAfter all, I am 73 years old this August! But I should be OK for a few more years if COVID<\/a> doesn\u2019t get me first.\u201d<\/p>\n

In regards to coronavirus<\/a>, Anderson said he was practicing good hygiene and that safe social distancing is \u201ca way of life\u201d for him. (He told Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> last month that he has been wearing face masks while traveling for quite some time due to his condition.)<\/p>\n

\u201cA mild COPD or asthma are just things to live with for the millions around the world who suffer,\u201d he wrote. \u201cBut no impact at all on my daily life as long as I don\u2019t catch a cold or flu virus and suffer the subsequent heavy bronchitis which, for me, historically follows since I was a young man. But on the upside I don\u2019t suffer from Hemorrhoids or erectile disfunction. So, things are looking up, not down. (Puns fully intended).\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ian Anderson has released a statement clarifying his diagnosis of COPD, an incurable lung disease that the Jethro Tull frontman first opened up about in an interview with Dan Rather. \u201cThanks for your concern but no worries about my diagnosed COPD and asthma,\u201d he writes. \u201cI have had 14 months with no infections and no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 03:55:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}