‘Air Bud’ Creator
Kevin DiCicco Hospitalized …
Battling Extreme Pneumonia
Revealed
Kevin DiCicco, the person who owned Buddy — star of the favored “Air Bud” films — and helped create the movie sequence, is being handled by medical professionals as he battles a extreme bout of pneumonia that landed him within the hospital … TMZ has discovered.
Kevin tells TMZ … he contracted extreme pneumonia two weeks in the past and has been hospitalized in San Diego. He tells us the pneumonia is unhealthy and he is at the moment being handled with an arsenal of antibiotics.
Kevin — who discovered future dog-actor Buddy close to his Yosemite cabin and took him in again within the day — tells us amid his hospitalization for pneumonia … he is nonetheless battling power obstructive pulmonary illness (COPD), which he believes he obtained from his use of medical marijuana.
He is additionally affected by Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus — MRSA — a kind of staph an infection. He says the restoration course of for the an infection itself requires 4 to 6 weeks of antibiotics and medicines to assist him keep away from sepsis, which will be deadly.
We broke the story … DiCicco was staying in a shelter in San Diego in November however his 90-day restrict was nearing its finish. He had no thought the place he’d go after leaving the shelter — till a buddy launched a GoFundMe.
Kevin tells us he is grateful for these supporting him and he is doing his finest to remain optimistic.
