Travis Barker and Kourtney Open Up About His ‘Life-Threatening’ Pancreatitis

• Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker was hospitalized earlier this week.
• His wife, Kourtney Kardashian, also shared an update on her Instagram Story.
• His daughter Alabama Luella pleaded for the public to send prayers for her father’s recovery.

Travis Barker the Blink-182 drummer, 46, said he is “currently much better” as he updated his 7.5 million Instagram followers Saturday after he was hospitalized earlier this week due to “life-threatening” pancreatitis.

“I went in for an endoscopy Monday feeling great,” he recounted on his Instagram Story. “But after dinner, I developed excruciating pain and have been hospitalized ever since.

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Kourtney Kardashian, the wife of Barker, also shared an update on her Instagram Story, saying that they were “so touched and appreciative” for the support they have gotten.

“Oh what a scary and emotional week it has been. Our health is everything and sometimes we take for granted how quickly it can change,” Kardashian wrote. “Travis and I went in for a routine endoscopy together and he ended up with severe, life-threatening pancreatitis.”

The creator of Poosh continued by thanking God for healing my husband, their fans’ prayers, and the specialists, medical staff, and nurses at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles “for taking such wonderful care” of them.

“It’s crazy how sometimes words could never truly express the gratitude or feelings I have inside of me,” Kardashian wrote in a follow-up Instagram Story.

In a picture taken on Tuesday, Travis Barker was accompanied by Kardashian as he was carried into Cedars-Sinai on a stretcher.

He had pancreatitis, an inflammation of the digestive and blood sugar-regulating organ, according to a source. They stated that “he was complaining of cramps.”

“Kourtney was worried yesterday. They both were,” another insider said. “Travis was suffering from extreme stomach pain and could barely walk.” An additional source said that Kardashian “won’t leave his side” in the hospital.

As his ex-wife Shanna Moakler’s daughter Atiana De La Hoya, 23, whom she shares with Oscar De La Hoya, spoke up to her followers, Barker’s daughter Alabama Luella, 16, pleaded with the public to “please send your prayers.”

“Thank you for the outpouring of love and prayers sent our way at this time,” Atiana wrote on her Instagram Story. “It is heard, felt and appreciated Xx.”

Moakler, 47, even expressed her gratitude to fans for showing their support, writing that her ex “has beat the odds numerous times and I know with his support system he will do it again. I will always be there for him and my children.”

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“Thank you to everyone who has reached out with concern to my ex and father of my children,” she wrote. I know he is in great hands and surrounded by loving support and the best medical teams available and his beautiful wife Kourtney,” Moakler added. “I pray for a speedy recovery and for the comfort of my children as I know they are very concerned and worried.”

Between 2004 and 2008, Travis Barker and Moakler were married; in addition to their daughter Alabama, they also have a son, Landon Asher, who is 18 years old.