Rob de Nijs announced on Twitter on Friday that his farewell concert in the Ziggo Dome on April 10 has been postponed, because he has to rehabilitate from the corona virus. He now hopes to catch up with the concert “within a few weeks”.
“I have been in hospital with corona for the past week. Fortunately, things are going a bit better, but will have to rehabilitate in the near future,” he says, among other things.
It now appears that last Saturday it was quite a shock for his loved ones, including his wife Henriëtte. The panic was even great, she says in The Telegraph† She had just had a long telephone conversation elsewhere in the house with a friend who had just lost her husband.
When she came into the living room, Henriëtte was terribly shocked. “It was half past eleven or so, I came down and saw Rob sitting there in the chair. Slumped, pale. His eyes were open, he was babbling a bit, but I immediately saw that something was wrong.”
Ambulance
She didn’t think twice and called 911. “The ambulance came quickly and of course there was no question of what to do. Everything was dramatically bad, heart rate, blood pressure. I’ve been so scared. I would have loved to have jumped in that ambulance right after him, but I also had a sick son that I couldn’t leave at home alone.”
Later she was able to go to the hospital and fortunately Rob was already on the mend. “The blood values were bad, but got better in the hours that followed. Only the fever was quite high at 39.5. And after a corona test, Rob turned out to be positive.”
Biggest fear come true
It was their biggest fear to get corona, because Rob suffers from Parkinson’s and asthma. “We have done everything we can over the past two years to prevent Rob from contracting the virus. He hasn’t been outside all the time and we have even been able to keep Julius (10) out of school regularly.”
But Henriëtte promises that the farewell concert will come anyway. “Rob is extremely motivated, but now he needs to strengthen himself.”
Dear All,
I have been in hospital with corona for the past week.
Fortunately, things are going a bit better, but will have to rehabilitate in the near future.
We will soon come up with a new date due to the farewell concert in the Ziggo Dome.With kind regards. pic.twitter.com/3nGiQGfZFz
— Rob de Nijs (@robdenijs) March 25, 2022
Source: The Telegraph