LAS VEGAS — Saying, “I feel relatively lucky to be alive,” guitar great Jake E. Lee has specified his injuries from a Tuesday morning shooting in Las Vegas.

“Checking. Is this on? Been awhile since I posted here,” Lee started his post on Jake E. Lee’s Red Dragon Cartel Facebook page. There are only two posts on that page this year. Lee had not posted to his personal page that page of any kind since April 2014.

Still hospitalized, Lee went on to say, “I deeply appreciate all the concern and well wishes. Makes everything going on a little better. To clarify, I was shot three times. I was on my way back home from walking my dog Coco (I didn’t name him so don’t!) Don’t want to go into details now, I’m tired, but I feel relatively very lucky.

“The police found 15 shell casings at the scene which means he emptied his clip on me. I could only dodge so many so one bullet went through my forearm, one through my foot, and one in the back which broke a rib and damaged a lung. Priority now is to keep draining my lung till it’s done crying. Then we can pull that tube out and concentrate on the more minor injuries.

And by the way, Coco’s fine and appreciates your inquiries!”

Lee was injured at about 2:40 a.m. in what his reps say was a “totally random” incident at his Southern Island home. He is expected to make a full recovery.

Las Vegas Metro’s public information department says the investigation is ongoing. Lee’s manager Tim Heyne of Red Light Management said he had no further details on Lee’s condition or the incident, other than what has been made public.

George Pajon Jr., guitarist for Black Eyed Peas and a Las Vegas resident, has been among Lee’s visitors.

Lee has heard from Ozzy Osbourne, whom he backed during the 1980s. Osbourne issued a statement to TMZ on Wednesday, “It’s been 37 years since I’ve seen Jake E. Lee, but that still doesn’t take away from the shock of hearing what happened to him today. It’s just another senseless act of gun violence. I send my thoughts to him and his beautiful daughter, Jade. I just hope he’ll be ok.”

Such guitar greats as Neal Schon of Journey and Brad Gillis of Night Ranger posted in support. Gillis is also a former Osbourne band member.

Fellow guitar great Ashba of Sixx: A.M., himself a Vegas resident, posted a text exchange Thursday morning, in which Lee said, “Doing surprisingly well, I am one lucky (expletive).”

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