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>> larry: pete, bret says that when he went to the emergency room he felt like someone shot him in the back of the head. were you with him then, or did he describe it to you shortshor >> thereafter. >> nef no, sir i wasn't with him but i was on the east coast. i was on my way out to finish our new record when this all happened. he did describe it to me and the look in his eyes was -- was pretty amazing and scary. you know he -- he was very aware that something was incredibly wrong. and that he could possibly die. you know the one thing he described to me was the will to live was that, you know...

Initially and once we were able to rule out the fact that he did not have an aneurysm or other problems affecting the blood vessels, we were able to downgrade his condition and release him. right now he's continuing, although he's doing well mentally, he's suffering a great deal with the effects of the hemorrhage. i've mentioned before that there was blood released around the brainstem. and this blood is now dissolving. that blood did its job initially. it formed the clot around the brainstem and it stopped the bleeding but now -- but now that the bleeding's completely stopped the blood is bre...

Seven days out and it's negative, at that point we downgraded his condition from critical to stabile. >> larry: pete, would you say bret is an upbeat kind of guy? >> absolutely. you know when you meet bret michaels under whatever circumstances you meet him you're instantly -- you're instantly drawn to the fact that he lives every day like i've said before like it's his first and it's his last. he has no room for lainess or any kind of just dragging your feet around. bret is a very upbeat guy. take the day and run with it type of -- wonderfully inspirational to be around. >> larry: his personal...

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>> larry: we're back. rikki, has the band poison remained close over the years? >> well, we've had our ups and downs, but i think when something like this happens, you know, things that really matter, you come together. you know bret and i have a lot of things in common. one of the biggest things we have in common is that we're both fathers. he has two daughters i have a 10-month-old son and all of a sudden when you're facing death, things change. you know, you -- you become a little bit more of a fighter. and i think that's one of the things that really pulled him through, was for his daughte...