'That's So Raven' alum Rondell Sheridan hospitalized for 'severe' pancreatitis

Disney Channel prima and comedian Rondell Sheridan is relying connected the generosity of his fans arsenic helium recovers from a caller bout with pancreatitis.

Sheridan, champion known for playing Chill Grill restaurateur and Baxter household patriarch Victor Baxter successful “That’s So Raven” and spinoff “Raven’s Home,” revealed Tuesday helium was hospitalized successful April for the wellness scare and, arsenic a result, “will beryllium retired of enactment for rather immoderate time.” In a selfie video taken from his infirmary bed, Sheridan elaborate his information and urged his Instagram followers to donate to a GoFundMe leafage dedicated to paying his aesculapian bills.

The “Cory successful the House” alum, 66, said helium was archetypal hospitalized erstwhile helium was traveling. He said doctors initially thought helium was dealing with a gastric contented and allowed him to spell location days later. Shortly aft returning home, however, Sheridan said helium needed to instrumentality to the hospital, wherever helium was told helium was suffering from pancreatitis. “I was successful the infirmary for 9 days,” helium said.

“I got released, and I thought I was connected the roadworthy to recovery,” helium continued. “But ... my pancreas is inflamed, and there’s not overmuch you tin bash astir it but conscionable hold for the inflammation to spell down.”

Sheridan said helium was unaware helium would not beryllium capable to enactment during his betterment and plugged the GoFundMe page, telling fans, “I would gladly appreciate” immoderate donation. The fundraising page, created by histrion and Sheridan’s person Isabel Beyoso, seeks to rise $35,000. As of Wednesday afternoon, determination were much than 630 donors and upward of $37,000 raised, exceeding the fundraiser’s goal.

Beyoso wrote successful the GoFundMe statement that Sheridan experienced an “extremely terrible lawsuit of pancreatitis,” had been incapable to enactment since April 12 and would beryllium retired of enactment for an undetermined magnitude of time. She added that the “Cousin Skeeter” histrion would “mostly beryllium bedridden” arsenic portion of his recovery.

A week earlier his hospitalization, Sheridan reunited with “That’s So Raven” co-star Raven-Symoné for an April occurrence of the “Tea Time” podcast she hosts with woman Miranda Pearman-Maday.

Sheridan, successful summation to his Disney Channel credits, appeared successful TV bid including “Minor Adjustments,” “The Jamie Foxx Show” and “A Different World.”