Drummer Mikkey Dee, 61, Details Recovery After Sepsis Hospitalization

Mikkey Dee. Courtesy of Mikkey Dee/Facebook

Scorpions drummer is recovering after recently battling a septic infection.

“First, I like to thank everyone for these heartwarming Christmas and New Year’s greetings, that I have not been able to respond to. I always try to do that every year,” Dee, 61, wrote via Facebook on Thursday, January 2. “This holiday season, I have been hospitalized with a very serious blood infection (Sepsis). I was admitted for three weeks but now I am home fighting this bastard bacteria.”

He added, “Thankfully, I have received fantastic care at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, my hometown. So, thanks a million to all the Doctors and Nurses that have been giving me the most excellent care.”

Dee, who previously played the drums in Motörhead, noted that underwent “several operations” before being discharged.

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“I am now back home and the numbers are all going in the right direction. Still lots of recovery and rehab in front of me,” Dee wrote on Thursday. “Now I’m working 100 percent to be back on the drum stool for the residency that starts off in Las Vegas on February 27. We have a tremendous 2025 to look forward to, celebrating 60 years of Scorpions and many exciting gigs around the world.”

He concluded, “So, the Stinger is out and I can’t wait to see you all out there on the road and rock the hell out of you! I wish everybody a fantastic 2025 with good health and lots of Rock n’ Roll!”

Mikkey Dee of Scorpions performs on stage. Daniel Knighton/Getty Images

Sepsis, according to the Mayo Clinic, occurs when the body improperly responds to an infection and causes the organs to function poorly.

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Dee recently told Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet that he developed sepsis after spraining his foot last month. He tried to soothe his pain with medication until his condition worsened.

“The ankle swelled up like hell, then it took on a weird shape and appearance and looked like an overcooked ham. I became very ill so I had to go by ambulance to Sahlgrenska and there they found that I had sky-high values, so I became priority one there,” Dee said in Swedish, per an online translation. ”It was surgery right away, the first of three. They cut away what was dead and infected and badly infested. It was not a good journey I was on. Another day and I’d be playing drums with Lemmy in heaven. I can say that.”

was the Motörhead frontman, who died in 2015 at age 70 from prostate cancer, cardiac arrhythmia and congestive heart failure.

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Drummer Mikkey Dee, 61, Details Recovery After Sepsis Hospitalization

Drummer Mikkey Dee, 61, Details Recovery After Sepsis Hospitalization

Drummer Mikkey Dee, 61, Details Recovery After Sepsis Hospitalization

Drummer Mikkey Dee, 61, Details Recovery After Sepsis Hospitalization

Drummer Mikkey Dee, 61, Details Recovery After Sepsis Hospitalization