Posted February 9, 20214 yr comment_5938266 Look's like Terry Funk's health issues have continued to deteriorate. He posted a video the other day asking fans to stop sending fan mail and Dustin Rhodes just posted something today to pray for him.... not good.
February 10, 20214 yr comment_5938300 Dustin followed up to say Funk’s hip had been bothering him and he was in a lot of pain. Hopefully that’s all it is, and it passes soon.
February 10, 20214 yr comment_5938321 Mick Foley made a similar post saying that Terry's hip is causing him a lot of severe pain.
July 6, 20214 yr comment_5956639 Don Muraco said on his podcast that Funk is suffering from dementia and has been moved to an assisted living facility. Terrible news if true.
July 6, 20214 yr comment_5956641 That's really sad. I sent him a letter years ago and he signed some stuff for me and even scribbled a little drawing of Texas on the index cards I used to make the envelope more sturdy. He truly was an amazing talent.
July 6, 20214 yr comment_5956679 Tommy Dreamer tweeted that he talked to Terry Funk on the phone today and that Terry is not in bad health. He said direct quote from Terry. "I'm currently sitting in my assisted living place with my thumb up my ass whistling dixie but I don't remember the words!"
July 6, 20214 yr comment_5956686 Good to know his health is well and is having fun with the speculations.
July 7, 20214 yr comment_5956696 Oh hell, my straight-shooting Texan grandma hung on for over 10 years in assisted living. She didn't have 50 years of rassling on her, but she did raise four baby boomers...
July 7, 20214 yr comment_5956697 Yeah, considering his wife passed away it probably is good that someone his age with the miles his body has live in an assisted living facility. I was wary of my mom living by herself at that age and she wasn't doing moonsaults off balconies in her 50s.
July 7, 20214 yr comment_5956698 assisted living isn't hospice Terry Funk is one of my all-time favorite Americans, forget rasslin. We should all be lining up to donate our blood and organs to this man, should he ever need them
July 7, 20214 yr comment_5956717 Assisted living isn't even a nursing home, it's an apartment building with aides and a bunch more wheelchair traffic than most.
July 9, 20214 yr comment_5956875 The current Observer has more details on Funk's condition. Physically, he's been in more or less constant pain ever since he defied doctor's orders to appear on a Tommy Dreamer show fresh off hernia surgery. Mentally, the good news is that he's in nowhere near as bad shape as Red Bastien and Nick Bockwinkel were at the end of their lives. However, he was interviewed for the Mick Foley A&E biography, and the fact that none of the footage was used is not a good sign.
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