"I hopped out of my bed because I needed to pee, and my left leg just collapsed under me and I fell to the floor. I couldn't even break the fall with my left arm because it wasn't working either. I tried to hop back up again, and I couldn't. I realized I had 'fallen and I can't get up!' It was this point I thought, 'Oh s-t, I'm having a stroke!'"
"I still have a lot of great stuff in me, but right now I gotta lotta of rehabbing to do."
Jello Biafra, the punk rock icon who fronted the Dead Kennedys during the 1970s and 1980s, experienced a stroke on Saturday and remains in stable condition. The incident occurred when his left leg collapsed as he got out of bed, followed by his left arm becoming unresponsive. Biafra recognized the symptoms and sought help. Known for his sharp left-wing satire on the band's debut album "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables," Biafra also ran a semi-satirical mayoral campaign in San Francisco in 1979. The Dead Kennedys disbanded in 1986, though the surviving members reunited without him in 2001. Biafra, now 67, is focusing on recovery and rehabilitation.
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