Lady Gaga’s dogwalker out of hospital and says he had part of lung removed: ‘Recovery isn’t a straight line’

Lady Gaga’s two bulldogs, which were stolen by thieves who shot and wounded her dogwalker, were recovered unharmed on 28 February

Lady Gaga's dogwalker Ryan Fischer has been released from the hospital after being shot in a dognapping incident where two of the singer's French bulldogs were stolen.

Opening up about his recovering on Instagram, Fischer revealed that he ended up having to have part of his lung removed.

“Recovery isn’t a straight line,” he wrote, describing a major setback in his recovery. After being released from the hospital as an ICU patient, Fischer's lung wasn't healing correctly and collapsed, leading him to being readmitted.

“It became quite clear that my lung was not healing, and the bullet wound had scarred my tissue like a burn. It could take months, if ever, for the hole to seal." So the decision was made to "remove portions of my lung. As I was being wheeled into surgery, I finally accepted my recovery had become anything but a straight line.”

“I look back at my exit from the hospital and smile that I continue to approach each day the same way,” he wrote. "The journey is hard, it’s assuredly painful, and questionable choices that no longer serve me like wearing skinny jeans are made. But I try. And somewhere within that I find the absurdity and wonder and beauty this life offers us all.”

Lady Gaga’s two bulldogs, which were stolen by thieves who shot and wounded her dogwalker, were recovered unharmed on 28 February.

A woman brought the dogs to the LAPD s Olympic Community Police Station, just northwest of downtown, around 6pm, said Capt Jonathan Tippett, commanding officer of the elite Robbery-Homicide Division.