Cannon told listeners of his 92.3NOW radio show: “I’m one of those people who have always been this way… I thought I was healthy. I was trying to be Superman and I hadn’t slept for maybe four days because I was taking care of the kids.”
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Luckily his wife, Mariah Carey, whom he also calls his hero, found him on the floor in pain before the situation got out of control. “Two days before New Year’s, I started to feel this horrible pain in my back, they did some more test,” he says. “They came and told me that my kidneys aren’t functioning. Not just one — not the one that was in pain — but both of them weren’t functioning right. My immune system started to attack my kidneys… And my kidneys pretty much failed.”
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Luckily he’s back to normal. According to MSNBC, he spoke with Howard Stern and said, “I’m good. I’m feeling 100 percent… Because of this situation I know that I don’t need to go so hard. It’s more about just my way of living. It’s really about taking some time.”
Perhaps Cannon’s 2012 resolution should be to take a much deserved vacation.
