Jim Ross Suffers Bells Palsy Attack

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Below is part of a blog that Jim Ross wrote on jrsbarbq.com earlier:

It was an interesting plane ride from OKC to Columbia, South Carolina Monday night. On my flight from OKC to Atlanta I had my 3rd Bells palsy attack.

I was able to reach WWE doctors who were in Jacksonville for Raw and they were able to call in the medicines I needed to get started on to slow down the paralysis. Now we just wait and see how the meds work and Mother Nature takes her course.

My plans are to tape SD tonite working with the King and perhaps even Michael Cole so we can make sure we can do the job that the product and the talents deserve.

Ross came back a few hours later with this update:

This is an update on my previous blog. Not the news I wanted to share.

It has been decided that I should not risk further issues by working tonight and I am in the process of arranging a flight back to OKC so I can see a neurologist on Wednesday.

Life is about facing the challenges we encounter so I am going to do all I can to get better and back at the announce desk asap. I wish I had more answers but I simply don't at this time.

I want to be a part of Bragging Rights but only time will tell if that will be physically possible. My passion and love for the game is in tact but I have to do what's best for my long term health.

WWE has been tremendously supportive of my situatiion of which I am very grateful.

Never count me out of the game as this isn't the first mountain that I have had to climb. Jerry Lawler and Michael Cole will handle SD from Columbia. My thanks to every one for understanding this matter. Better days are on the horizon.

[Bubba JD]

if i ever go to Vegas & Jim Ross is there, i'm turning around & leaving. the man's cursed. seriously, i have to believe that's he's a walking curse.

i remember when he suffered his 2nd attack & how people were mentioning the odds of having 1 attack, let alone 2. i don't remember what the odds are, but i have to think that this defies all odds.

[Bubba JD]

sorry for the double post, but did a quick search on Bells Palsy. depending on the expert you listen to, the odds of having a recurrance can range from 5-9%. others claim 4-14%. some people give odds as high as 10-20%.

the average timespan between recurrences is 10 years, which i believe makes sense, in Ross's case.

the link i'm posting might be helpful on this, for those who want to read up on it. it's interesting stuff. www.bellspalsy.ws/

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Regardless of how you feel about his work, you can't not have respect for JR and what he has accomplished in this business. Let's hope he makes a full recovery and is back on the headset soon.

[Bubba JD]

JR definately deserves an immense amount of respect. how he continues to go back to work, day after day, knowing that Vince is his boss, can't be an easy thing for him. i can't begin to recall all the times Ross has been put into humiliating situations for WWE Programming.

in the last many years, he's been forced to dumb down his work, for God knows what reason.......and yes, for those of us that are old enough to remember JR's earlier work, there is a reason why he's called one of the greats.

if JR, by some chance, is unable to recover properly, it would be nice to give him a proper send off. i'm not all that optimistic, at the moment. at his age, you know that fighting back from any medical problem gets pretty freakin' hard.