Alan Ruck Returns to Spin City for Season Finale

Alan Ruck, 45, returned to the set of Spin City to tape the season finale, three months after a debilitating strep infection put him in the hospital. Ruck returned home to New York after Spin City finished taping in December. He wasn’t feeling well and was not aware that the strep infection had passed into his bloodstream. This caused severe disorientation. He was dropped off in front of the wrong apartment building, which was only a few doors down from where he lives, and he says he couldn’t figure out how to get home. Ruck told Access Hollywood, "I hung out in a vestibule for like four hours hoping that someone would find me, and then when it was apparent that wouldn’t work out, I went outside and I sort of figured out where I was and I finally made it home and I just kind of collapsed. My wife called 911."

The strep infection caused kidney failure and according to the actor it was "touch and go for the first 48 hours." The road to recovery has been a long one, but the actor told Access Hollywood that returning to the show to tape the season finale was a promise he made to himself during his recovery. "This was a little goal for me, just sort of being down and trying to get back up. I got in under the wire."

Ruck, who may be best known as Cameron Matthew Broderick’s best friend in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, plays Stuart Bondek – the Mayor’s Chief of Staff on Spin City. He has also appeared in Speed, Twister, and Star Trek: Generations. He says that even though he faces months of rehabilitation, he has a new philosophy on life. As stated on Eonline.com, "I think that any day that you wake up and you feel pretty good – you don’t even have to feel great, you just feel pretty good – that’s a great day," he says. "It doesn’t matter if you’ve got money worries or career worries, you can work everything out."