Former “Who’s the bossChild star Danny Pintauro ended up in the hospital after an accident while riding his scooter on Thanksgiving.
Pintauro, who played Jonathan Bower on the hit sitcom, shared a video slideshow on Instagram of photos of himself from the hospital, explaining that he had emergency surgery to repair a tear in his stomach. He suffered the injury while riding his scooter on the night of Thanksgiving and the bike path he was on was “suddenly blocked with cones.”
“I had to choose between a van and a mast,” his message read. “The cones hurt! I got a terrible scrape on my arm and I was pretty convinced I had broken my arm. The next morning it was a lot better so I wasn’t too worried.”
It wasn’t until the next day, Saturday, November 30, that he started feeling “weird chest pains,” which later spread to his abdominal and shoulder muscles, and said the pain was so severe that “I could barely breathe.”
Pintauro showed photos of himself in the hospital and said he was in a scooter accident on Thanksgiving. (Bob D’Amico/Disney General Entertainment content via Getty Images | Danny Pintauro/Instagram)
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Pintauro shared that his husband, Wil Tabares, then took him to the hospital, and after running multiple tests, it was confirmed that the accident caused a tear in his stomach wall, which in turn caused “a stroke.” infection in my bloodstream,” and “air and stomach acid, etc., escaped into my stomach.”
Pintauro called it “the most excruciating pain I have ever felt in my entire life” and the discovery led to “an emergency operation last night to repair the tear.”
“The operation went well and now that the pain has been resolved, the pain is almost gone, although I am still in a lot of pain,” he said. “They just took out the intubation tube, but I have to keep another tube in my stomach for another three days to continue removing the acids so the stitches don’t break and get repaired. Which also means I won’t be eating or using the Don’t drink anything for the next three days.”
“The cones hurt! I got a terrible scrape on my arm and I was pretty convinced I had broken my arm. The next morning it was a lot better so I wasn’t too worried.”
Pintauro reflected on the very real possibility that the situation could have turned out very differently for him and said, “If I had waited any longer, I could have died.” Realizing the importance of listening to your body, he explained that it was “the one that told me something was definitely wrong.”
Pintauro said the surgery went well and he is grateful for everyone caring for him. (Paul Archuleta/Getty Images)
He then thanked his “amazing husband” for sticking by his side through it all, as well as the doctors and nurses at Memorial Care Miller Hospital who are caring for him.
“Unfortunately this means that and all the Book Nooks I was working on will have to wait a few more days, so I will adjust the shipping dates to reflect this. I hope that’s okay. This is my first major surgery I, first emergency surgery EVER , but I held it together. It was absolutely terrifying.”
He continued: “If anyone wanted to send me flowers, I wouldn’t mind. Lol, just kidding. I’m stressed, hungry, in pain and exhausted. Light a candle for me, okay? Ohhh! They x-rayed my arm and it’s not broken! So there is one positive side.”
Pintauro starred in ‘Who’s the Boss’, alongside Tony Danza, Judith Light, Alyssa Milano and Katherine Helmondfor nearly 200 episodes spanning eight seasons, from 1984 to 1992.
Pintauro appeared in “Who’s the Boss” for nearly 200 episodes from 1984 to 1992. (Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Family Equality)
After the end of the series, Pintauro largely stayed out of the spotlight and chose to moving from California and on a different career path. He has performed sporadically since his time on the show, mainly in “The Quarantine Bunch” in 2020 and “A Country Christmas Harmony” in 2022.
