What's Love Got to Do with It : Tina Turner’s Husband Erwin Bach Needs your prayers

Tina Turner’s funeral will be a small private affair with few family members, her former aide said. Eddy Hampton Armani, who was Tina’s personal assistant for more than 20 years, said,She did not want a big public funeral. She wanted to be cremated and I expect it to be a small, very private affair. I am sure there will be some kind of memorial concert and tribute later. It will be for her very close friends in Switzerland, and her manager. It will not be a big family occasion. Music legend Tina Turner’s cause of death has been confirmed. The 83-year-old died peacefully at her home in Kusnacht near Zurich in Switzerland . But behind the scenes, the music legend had been battling high blood pressure and kidney failure. And now her representative has confirmed that she died of natural causes. It comes after reports that was so ill and she was ready to die until her husband Erwin Bach, 67, donated a kidney so she could have a transplant in 2017. Tina had started making arrangements to die until when the compatibility tests made a donation from her husband possible. Erwin fully recovered from the operation but Tina had to continue taking strong doses of immunosuppressants. Her faithful husband's kind donation sadly wasn't enough and Tina spent her last months feeling nauseous and dizzy as she was on multiple prescriptions and was scared a lot. Tina bravely opened up about her terrifying struggle with the silent killer of kidney disease before her death. In her final months, Tina admitted she had refused to take conventional medicine for her hypertension and put herself at great danger by turning to homeopathic cures. She considered her body an invulnerable and indestructible bastion for way too long. Tina suffered from hypertension,high blood pressure for decades and was diagnosed in 1978 but admitted she didn't care much about it,and in 1985 she was put on daily medication. It wasn't until Tina suffered a stroke in 2009 because of her high blood pressure that she discovered her kidneys were suffering and had already lost 35 percent of their function. Tina continued to take medication to control her high blood pressure but she became convinced the pills were making her worse. With time She developed a fatal dislike of these pills,she said. She remembered relishing life before She started taking them and wished could be as clear headed and energetic as she used to be. Tina's uncontrolled high blood pressure wreaked havoc on her kidneys and her kidney disease reached its final stage. Thanks to her naivety she had ended up at the point where it was about life or death,she said. Tina was put on dialysis for nine months to survive. Dialysis was my only option, but it was depressing to be connected to a machine for hours, she said. Luckily her husband Erwin offered to donate one of his kidneys and Tina underwent a kidney transplant in 2017. But that wasn't the end of her struggles as her body tried to reject the donor kidney and she spent months in and out of hospital. The months after the transplantation were marked by a never ending up and down, she said. This is when Tina's health started to take a turn for the worse and she never fully recovered. She kept feeling nauseous and dizzy, forgot things, and was scared a lot. Talking just weeks before her passing Tina said the problems were still not quite resolved. In one of her final social media posts shared just weeks before her passing, Tina urged her fans to show their kidneys love as she marked World Kidney Day. REST IN PARADISE QUEEN:

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