Posted on 05/20/2009 7:05:23 PM PDT by Born Conservative
Ailing Natalie Cole now has a new kidney.
The 59-year-old singer underwent successful kidney transplant surgery "and is resting comfortably," publicist Maureen O'Connor said Wednesday. Cole will postpone her summer tour, which was set to begin June 5 and run through November, as she recovers.
Cole had been receiving dialysis three times a week since September. She still continued to perform, even overseas, in support of her latest album, the Grammy-winning "Still Unforgettable,"
The kidney dialysis is unrelated to Cole's struggle with hepatitis C, a liver disease spread through contact with infected blood. She announced her hepatitis diagnosis last year and said that the disease was likely caused by her drug use years ago.
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how did she get Hep c?
She doesn’t know, but thinks it may be from using Heroin back in the early 80’s. At that time, Hep C was not yet discovered.
http://www.etonline.com/news/2008/09/65285/
Get well, Miss Cole.
I guess Cuba and Canada was booked up..
She was into smack like her old man - hmmm - fruit doesnt fall far from the tree.
Prayers for Natalie.
Good for her. She’s overcome alot and God bless her. Always loved her singing.
Yes, prayers for Natalie Cole.
I don’t think Nat King Cole was Horse user I think you mixing him up with Ray Charles he was serious Horse user
Beautiful women with a beautiful voice......
They are really glossing over hep c and how it’s trasmitted.
It can be transmitted through any kind of body fluids. You can get it from dirty needles - drug kind, or tattoo kind. Blood transfusion if it wasn’t screened properly. Generally any activity where you trade blood or bodily fluids from one to another. Although they say sexual transmission is really low.
Seriously, prayers for a full recovery.
Nat's drug of choice was tobacco.
One of Nat's close friends told me that Nat regularly puffed three to four packs of cigarettes a day. Nat died of lung cancer at age 45.
Dreadful loss to the music world, and his kids. :-(
A lot of people think of Nat as a smooth crooner of easy listening songs, but he was a heck of a jazz pianist and bandleader before then.
Luckily, I have many of Nat’s songs that were burned direct from the master tapes with in-studio chatter. The talk is so interesting and the sonics are quite spectacular using tube electronics back in the 50’s.
Nat’s jazz trio was awesome. btw, Diana Krall’s early tribute to his trio performances is easily her best album.
Well, he was a pretty great all-around entertainer. If you catch any of his original variety show (I saw it when they ran it on BET), it was an instant classic. Such a shame there is virtually no one left of his calibre, Black or White, today.
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