And from today's Orange County Register (rehashing the Toronto Star article):
HERE'S THE SCOOP ON LIGHTFOOT
A loyal Gordon Lightfoot fan asked for an update on the singer's status and health. This being a full-service People column, here it is, a portion at least, from
www.gordonlightfoot.com: In an interview last month with the Toronto Star - the first since falling ill last September - a frail but determined Lightfoot says he is working on a new album and hopes to begin touring again in 18 months.
"I plan to fight my way back," said Lightfoot, 64, who now faces two more operations in the wake of the abdominal hemorrhage that nearly killed him.
"I probably won't get to play again until the fall of 2004," he added. "My goal is to get out there and do it again, whatever that takes. The most important things to me now are: Don't spin your wheels! Keep trying! Don't give up! There's always hope."
Lightfoot, whose hits include "Sundown" and "If You Could Read My Mind," collapsed in pain in his dressing room before a charity show in his Canadian hometown. He was airlifted to a hospital, where he remained for three months. His family and friends kept a tight lid on information about his condition, revealing only that he had suffered internal bleeding from a blood vessel in his abdomen and that he was not fully conscious for at least two months. He walked out of the hospital in mid-December.
Lightfoot now says an artery ruptured near his liver because of a rare disorder, and that he was in a comalike state for 61/2 weeks.
"Most people die from what happened to me."
People is compiled and edited by Steve Eddy. Copyright 2003 The Orange County Register
########################################
A loyal Gordon Lightfoot fan ... is there any other kind? lol