In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Eric Church opened up about a near-death experience that he had last year when doctors found a blood clot.

Last June, during the last few dates of his tour Church, felt a “tingling in his arms”, but went ahead and played the remaining shows.  After the tour while he was relaxing at home, he noticed that something was wrong with his arm.

“I was watching the College World Series and texting about golf and this hand was not responding like it should,” Church said. “So I peeled my shirt off and went in the bathroom, and my arm was noticeably red and enlarged.”

Church then drove himself to the hospital, where doctors told him that they needed to operate on him immediately, and that the blood clot could kill him.

“They took me into the ICU and I thought, ‘OK, I’m gonna go to bed, get up in the morning and do this thing,'” Church described in the report. “But when I walk in the room, the surgical team is there and the (doctor’s) in scrubs. He says, ‘We’re gonna go now.’ That was really when it hit me. To them, I was going to die.”

Thankfully Eric Church recovered, without any long term nerve damage. “I can still play guitar,” Church said. “And I play golf better than ever.”

Eric Church’s new album “Desperate Man” is due out October 5th.