‘Air Bud’ Creator Kevin DiCicco Hospitalized With Severe Pneumonia

Kevin DiCicco, the person who owned Buddy — star of the favored “Air Bud” films — and helped create the movie collection, is being handled by medical professionals as he battles a extreme bout of pneumonia that landed him within the hospital … TMZ has discovered.

Kevin tells TMZ … he contracted extreme pneumonia two weeks in the past and has been hospitalized in San Diego. He tells us the pneumonia is unhealthy and he is presently being handled with an arsenal of antibiotics.

Kevin — who discovered future dog-actor Buddy close to his Yosemite cabin and took him in again within the day — tells us amid his hospitalization for pneumonia … he is nonetheless battling persistent obstructive pulmonary illness (COPD), which he believes he bought from his use of medical marijuana.

He is additionally affected by Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus — MRSA — a kind of staph an infection. He says the restoration course of for the an infection itself requires 4 to 6 weeks of antibiotics and drugs to assist him keep away from sepsis, which will be deadly.

We broke the story … DiCicco was staying in a shelter in San Diego in November however his 90-day restrict was nearing its finish. He had no concept the place he’d go after leaving the shelter — till a buddy launched a GoFundMe.