Freddy Fender - Before the Next Teardrop Falls....
Posted: October 12, 2006 2:43 pm
Freddy Fender out of hospital, remains very ill
11:43 AM CDT on Thursday, October 12, 2006
Associated Press
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas —- Grammy-winning musician Freddy Fender has been discharged from a hospital and was resting at his South Texas home Thursday, but family and friends said he remained gravely ill.
Fender, 69, had been getting treatment for cancer in Oklahoma but was transferred to a hospital in San Antonio last week because of a blood infection.
"He's not doing too good," said his wife, Vangie Huerta.
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Born Baldemar Huerta in 1937, Fender has won three Grammies, the most recent in 2002. He started his career in the late 1950s and hit the charts with "Before The Next Teardrop Falls," "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" and "You'll Lose A Good Thing."
He was to have surgery in January to remove the upper left lobe of his lung because of a fungal infection, but surgeons found two large tumors and left the lobe intact. A scan later found nine more tumors.
Doctors last month told Fender the cancer had spread from his left lung to his body.
He received a kidney from his daughter in 2002 and a liver transplant in 2004. He has had problems with diabetes and hepatitis C.
11:43 AM CDT on Thursday, October 12, 2006
Associated Press
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas —- Grammy-winning musician Freddy Fender has been discharged from a hospital and was resting at his South Texas home Thursday, but family and friends said he remained gravely ill.
Fender, 69, had been getting treatment for cancer in Oklahoma but was transferred to a hospital in San Antonio last week because of a blood infection.
"He's not doing too good," said his wife, Vangie Huerta.
[...]
Born Baldemar Huerta in 1937, Fender has won three Grammies, the most recent in 2002. He started his career in the late 1950s and hit the charts with "Before The Next Teardrop Falls," "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" and "You'll Lose A Good Thing."
He was to have surgery in January to remove the upper left lobe of his lung because of a fungal infection, but surgeons found two large tumors and left the lobe intact. A scan later found nine more tumors.
Doctors last month told Fender the cancer had spread from his left lung to his body.
He received a kidney from his daughter in 2002 and a liver transplant in 2004. He has had problems with diabetes and hepatitis C.
. It was suppose to be out in August I think. He must be putting it out on Mailboat 
. JK Jimmy 