Bret Michaels‘ doctor says that the rocker is “still very sick right now” but fortunately he’s in stable condition and still on the road to a full recovery after suffering a brain hemorrhage near the end of April. Dr. Jospeh Zabramski held a press conference this past Tuesday (May 4) at the Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix and said that Bret was “lucky” to be alive. The 47-year-old musician turned reality television star has been released from the hospital but details regarding the date he left could not be released due to federal privacy laws.

“He’s improving,” says Zabramski. “I really expect that he will fortunately make a 100 percent recovery. He’s just one of those lucky people – 10 to 20 percent who make a complete recovery and can resume all of their normal activities.” Zabramski, a neurosurgeon at Barrow, one of the country’s top brain surgery facilities, said Michaels’s medical team will continue to monitor his vital signs and neurological status “very closely” for the next few weeks while he also receives physical therapy. “He’s still very sick right now [but] he’s a very determined person,” Zabramski, who previously praised Michaels’s “sheer will to live”, told reporters, adding that he is walking on his own and “his level of consciousness [has] returned to what we call normal.”