Lightfoot remains in stable condition
HAMILTON (CP) -- Gordon Lightfoot remains in stable condition in the intensive care unit of a local hospital a week after being admitted with severe abdominal pains.
His surgeon, Dr. Michael Marcaccio, said Saturday the folk music icon is "holding his own," but no other details on Lightfoot's condition were released.
Lightfoot began showing signs of improvement on Tuesday, several days aftwer he was admitted.
The critically acclaimed singer-songwriter, whose hits include Sundown, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and If You Could Read My Mind, was flown to the hospital by air ambulance from Orillia, Ont., early last Sunday after being forced to cancel a performance.
Updates on Lightfoot's condition are being posted on the hospital's Web site at
www.hamiltonhealthsciences.ca.
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