Stars leave hospital
NZPA-AP Los Angeles The Oscar-winning actor, Donna Reed, and the “Diff rent Strokes” star, Gary Coleman, were discharged from hospitals yesterday so they could spend Christmas at home.
But the singer, Peggy Lee, aged 65, recovering from double-bypass heart surgery in New Orleans, will continue recuperating at St John’s Hospital, in
Santa Monica, before being released in a few days, according to a hospital spokeswoman. Reed, aged 64, who won the best supporting actress Oscar in 1953 for “From Here to Eternity” and later starred in television’s “The Donna Reed Show,” and was Miss Ellie in “Dallas” for a season, entered Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre on December 10 for bleeding ulcers,
but doctors discovered pancreatic cancer during surgery.
Coleman, aged 17, the wisecracking Arnold Jackson of “Diffrent Strokes,” entered U.C.L.A. Medical Centre on December 9 for kidney dialysis and was outfitted with a portable dialysis unit He has had two kidney transplants, in 1973 and 1984 after the first transplanted kidney failed.
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