Former Radio Presenter Peter de Bie: Battling Bacterial Infections and Amputation – His Remarkable Story

One of the doctors at the rehabilitation center recently asked him. ‘Aren’t you thinking too lightly about it? Would you perhaps like to talk to someone about it?’ Because what happened to former radio presenter Peter de Bie (73) is not wrong. He has spent the past year and a half almost continuously in hospitals and rehabilitation clinics due to two serious bacterial infections.

These ultimately led to his right leg having to be amputated just below the knee. And yet De Bie seems reasonably cheerful despite all the disaster. “It could have been much worse,” he says, sitting in a wheelchair at the small table in the Zuiderhout rehabilitation clinic in Haarlem.

It all started a year and a half ago, when he was still on the radio every Saturday with Mieke van der Weij News weekend presented. He woke up one morning and could hardly move because of a searing pain in his back. He had to be taken from the house by the fire brigade. Spondylodiscitis was diagnosed after two weeks in hospital (a serious bacterial infection). He was given antibiotics and had to recuperate for months.

2023-11-14 19:56:18
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