Having just had part of his right leg utated as a result of a lengthy battle with Type II diabetes, Andre “Doctor Dre” Brown” is now the subject of a GoFundMe caign to raise the money necessary for his full recovery and care.
A multi-talented performer who made his mark in a number of media over the course of 25 years, Dre is best known as the co-host of “Yo! MTV Raps” (1989-1995), the groundbreaking television show that introduced rap and hip-hop to the world at a time when most mass media, including MTV itself up until that point, shunned the burgeoning African-American youth culture. In an interview with TV Guide in 2019, Doug Herzog, an executive at Viacom, MTV’s parent company, recalled, “The impact of “Yo!” was immediate and massive. It changed everything. It was a gigantic cultural shift.”
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On June 17, the foot was utated. On June 24, his right leg was utated up to the knee. He has since been fitted with a prosthetic and is now learning how to walk with it. Dre has been recovering at a rehab enter since July 1. Just where he and his wife will settle afterwards is still being decided. The house they live in now doesn’t accommodate someone with Dre’s health issues.
The pair plan to buy a new house better suited to Dre’s needs today, one with all the facilities on one floor, no stairs, rs for a wheelchair, and wide-access doors. Given all of Dre’s high-profile achievements, one might assume that he and his family had all the money necessary to pay for his care. But diabetes cut short his career nearly 15 years ago, and it’s been a full ten years since he lost his eyesight. Dre’s insurance stopped paying for his stay in the rehab center on July 20.
When he leaves the rehab center for home – wherever that turns out to be — he’ll require the care of both a physical therapist and an occupational therapist, neither of whose fees will be fully covered by insurance. With these realities in mind, Dre’s family has launched a GoFundMe caign in his name: https://www.gofundme.com/f/PostOp-Care-doctor-dre-go-fund-me
