Overview
- Routine tests on November 4 flagged elevated potassium, prompting doctors to halt a medication and check whether his values improved at home.
- Persistently abnormal results by the end of the week led to his readmission to Son Espases Hospital for cardiac monitoring and observation.
- In Instagram videos from his hospital room, Schmelz said his potassium numbers worsened and that he is being kept for observation, while stressing he feels strong and optimistic.
- His wife, Katrin Mermi-Schmelz, has been the primary source for updates, describing the situation as stable as fans post widespread get‑well messages.
- Clinicians have begun adjusting treatment, and his wife says doctors will reassess early this week with hopes he could go home in the coming days.