Former MTV VJ Matt Pinfield Gives Health Update After Coma, Recovering in Rehab Facility
'Guys, I'm alive,' Pinfield, who was in a coma in the ICU, told The Hollywood Reporter. 'I'm recovering and am going to come back swinging. I was unresponsive for two months. Friends were thinking they were coming to see me for the last time. The doctors never expected me to speak or to walk again.'
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The former MTV VJ and SoCal Sound radio host is currently on his way to full recovery in a rehabilitation center in Los Angeles. Pinfield, a onetime Columbia Records VP of A&R who has had a number of radio gigs over the past 20 years — most recently co-hosting The Power Hour on AXS TV — suffered the stroke on Jan. 6.
He also opened up about his eldest daughter Jessica assuming temporary conservatorship of the media personality's medical and financial decisions. 'She's the one who saved my life,' Pinfield told the publication of his daughter. 'She protected me.'
Pinfield added for 'grateful' he is 'for all the people that that were wishing me well. The love of the community helped me get through this.' He is looking to be discharged from the hospital by the 'end of the month,' and continue with outpatient care. 'I'm definitely going to take some time to recover,' he explained. 'Then I'll do my radio shows again and get back to work doing what I love, which is to entertain people playing music.'
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