I'm surmising that Gordy probably just wants his space--as well as some time to recouperate...after all, he had a pretty serious life-altering/life-threatening thing happen to him.
I just ran across a slightly different version of the news regarding his departure from the hospital:
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December 13, 2002
His doctors didn’t know if he’d live. And his fans were worried they’d never hear his voice again. But Gordon Lightfoot is not only a troubadour, he’s a fighter. And now the veteran Canadian entertainer has won his biggest battle ever – surviving a condition that threatened his life.
Lightfoot has finally left a Hamilton hospital, more than three months after he took ill last September. But even though the 64-year-old is recovering, this ‘old man’ of music hasn’t come home from the forest just yet. “He's out of the hospital,” confirms longtime manager Barry Harvey. “He's in quite good spirits. He's up and walking around. He's doing really well, considering where he's come from.”
It was the singer’s own condition that helped him survive his battle against internal bleeding from an abdominal blood vessel. “Mr. Lightfoot's physical fitness and personal strength have helped him overcome a life-threatening condition,” praises his physician, Dr. Michael Marccaccio. His family has been swamped with requests about the musician’s prognosis, but “he's requesting his privacy especially with Christmas coming up,” explains Harvey. It’s too soon to say when Lightfoot will return to work. But on the long road to recovery, he’s definitely turned down the Carefree Highway.
http://www.pulse24.com/Showbiz/Top_S...3-004/page.asp
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"Didn't feel so cold and tired
Stretched out before her fire
Rollin' smokes and drinkin' up her wine
And I remember candlelight
And singing 'til we could not sing no more
Then fallin' warm asleep on Susan's floor"
[This message has been edited by on-susan's-floor (edited January 08, 2003).]
