Palmdale Mayor in hospital, testing for auto-immune disorder
LOS ANGELES (CNS) – Palmdale Mayor Steve Hofbauer was at Cedars-Sinai Healthcare Middle in Los Angeles Thursday going through tests for an car-immune dysfunction soon after shelling out two days at Antelope Valley Hospital.
Hofbauer was transferred from Antelope Valley Hospital to Cedars-Sinai on Wednesday night time. He viewed the Palmdale Town Council assembly on Tuesday night from a space at Antelope Valley Clinic.
He posted on his personal Fb page that he was transferred to Cedars-Sinai due to the fact it is “superior outfitted to draw a substantial steady of experts to treat and diagnose” the manifestation of an vehicle-immune disorder.
“I will not intend to be sidelined by something,” Hofbauer posted in a statement on Facebook.
He claimed he will go through a couple times of lab checks and he is hoping no surgeries or biopsies will be required.
Hofbauer, 68, informed Town Information Provider he analyzed constructive for COVID-19 in June and was in quarantine for two months recovering. It was the next time Hofbauer had tested constructive for COVID-19. He said he is vaccinated and boosted. He also has diabetic issues.
The medical doctors at Cedars-Sinai are running assessments on him to see if his ailment is similar to his COVID analysis or difficult from diabetes, he explained to CNS.
“They’re doing the job on a recreation approach currently,” Hofbauer mentioned. “They obtained an A-checklist of people right here. Communication is the critical.”
Hofbauer stated he was enduring upper body pains on Monday and went to see his physician. He was despatched to the emergency area at Antelope Valley Healthcare facility the next working day, and from there, transferred to Cedars-Sinai.
Hofbauer stated he missed a forum with Realtors from the Antelope Valley on Thursday, but Ricahrd Loa, the mayor pro tem, was attending in his absence.
Hofbauer has served on the Palmdale City Council due to the fact 2003 and was elected mayor in 2018 and 2020. His expression expires in November. Prior to currently being elected to the Town Council, he was a Organizing Commissioner and chairman beginning in 1990.
He retired from the Los Angeles Hearth Section as a hearth inspector in 2012 following a lot more than a few a long time with the company.