{"id":142,"date":"2007-08-30T18:01:44","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T18:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2007\/08\/update-billy-graham-released-f.php"},"modified":"2007-08-30T18:01:44","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T18:01:44","slug":"update-billy-graham-released-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2007\/08\/update-billy-graham-released-f","title":{"rendered":"Update: Billy Graham Released from Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Adelle M. Banks<br \/>\n(RNS) Evangelist Billy Graham, who had been hospitalized for episodes of intestinal bleeding, went home Thursday (Aug. 30), his staff announced.<br \/>\nGraham, 88, entered Mission Health &amp; Hospitals in Asheville, N.C., on Aug. 18 and underwent a colonoscopy four days later. The procedure revealed an area of active bleeding, which was treated with cauterization.<br \/>\n&#8220;We have been pleased that he has been able to come back from this incident as well as he has,&#8221; said Dr. Lucian Rice, an internal medicine specialist at the hospital, in a statement shortly before Graham&#8217;s discharge.<br \/>\n&#8220;He will continue to have therapy at home, and I feel that he can have a very good recovery.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe colonoscopy showed that the bleeding problem was consistent with an arteriovenous malformation, which is a tangle of small blood vessels in the colon&#8217;s lining.<br \/>\nMedical staffers reported that the evangelist had been in good spirits and took frequent walks in the hospital, which is near his home in Montreat.<br \/>\nGraham suffers from Parkinson&#8217;s disease and other ailments and has been mostly homebound in recent years. Ruth Graham, his wife of more than 63 years, died in June.<br \/>\n<em>Copyright 2007 Religion News Service. All rights reserved. No part of this transmission may be distributed or reproduced without written permission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adelle M. Banks (RNS) Evangelist Billy Graham, who had been hospitalized for episodes of intestinal bleeding, went home Thursday (Aug. 30), his staff announced. Graham, 88, entered Mission Health &amp; Hospitals in Asheville, N.C., on Aug. 18 and underwent a colonoscopy four days later. 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