Tyler Reddick, wife Alexa share latest update on son Rookie after recent surgery

It’s been a trying year for Tyler Reddick and his family, for reasons wholly unrelated to racing. Reddick’s son, Rookie, has been undergoing a series of medical procedures.

Alexa Reddick, Tyler’s wife, has routinely posted updates on her Instagram about Rookie’s condition. She posted another on Tuesday, fresh out of a surgery.

“Rookie came back one kidney lighter,” Alexa wrote, per a screenshot shared by The Athletic’s Jeff Gluck. “He is recovering and still coming out of anesthesia. The surgery went well and his team is confident he will not need treatment after.

“The next couple days he will be sore so I will take a break here while we get him over this hump. They are watching his BP & heart to see how they are responding.”

Through it all, Tyler Reddick has continued racing. And he’s done fairly well, all things considered.

Most of the issues with Rookie began to come to light publicly around the Kansas weekend, when his plans were made known. Tyler Reddick did not have a backup driver for the race at Kansas on Sept. 28, when Rookie was in the ICU undergoing tests after showing signs of heart failure.

Reddick spoke to the challenges at the time. He outlined just how hard things have been.

“It’s difficult, it’s not what you want for your kids,” Reddick said, via Bob Pockrass of FOX Sports. “It’s not, as a father, my first son, Beau’s hit his head, bruised himself up, cut himself up, but yeah. What my son Rookie is going through is serious. A tricky situation and just more than anything, just ready to get on a plane and go home.”

Somehow, despite the challenges, Tyler Reddick has remained extremely competitive on the track. He finished in seventh at Kansas, then notched a tenth-place finish at the Roval, before landing a fifth-place finish at Las Vegas this past weekend.

Suffice it to say, though, that everyone in the NASCAR community is pulling for Rookie. Hopefully his latest procedure will clear the issues as anticipated, with Alexa’s Tuesday update offering encouragement on that front.