AILING FENDER DISCHARGED FROM HOSPITAL
LATEST: Singer FREDDY FENDER was discharged from hospital yesterday (12OCTO6), but remains gravely ill.
The Grammy Award winner, 69, had been getting treatment in Oklahoma for lung cancer, but was transferred to a hospital in San Antonio, Texas last week (ends08OCT06) because of a blood infection. His wife VANGIE HUERTA says, "He’s not doing too good. It’s kind of like - we just got back yesterday and it’s kind of breaking us." RON ROGERS, who has acted as spokesman for Fender, reveals the BEFORE THE NEXT TEARDROP FALLS singer has considered making a public statement, but hasn’t been able to yet. He says, "Of course he’s ill, gravely ill, and he’s at home resting." Fender was scheduled to have surgery in January (06) to remove the upper left lobe of his lung because of a fungal infection, but surgeons found two large tumours and left the lobe intact.
Last month (SEP06), doctors told Fender the cancer had spread from his left lung. The singer, who has had problems with diabetes and hepatitis C, received a kidney from his daughter in 2002 and a liver transplant in 2004.
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