{"id":494,"date":"2008-02-19T17:20:30","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T17:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2008\/02\/graham-home-following-surgery.php"},"modified":"2008-02-19T17:20:30","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T17:20:30","slug":"graham-home-following-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2008\/02\/graham-home-following-surgery","title":{"rendered":"Graham Home Following Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Associated Press<\/strong><br \/>\nAsheville, N.C. &#8211; Evangelist Billy Graham is back at his North Carolina home recovering from surgery to update a shunt that controls excess fluid to his brain.<br \/>\nMission Hospitals spokeswoman Merrell Gregory says Graham is recovering well and physicians are pleased with his progress. Graham underwent surgery last Wednesday.<br \/>\nDr. Ralph Loomis said doctors will continue to calibrate the updated valve at his mountainside home in Montreat.<br \/>\nThe 89-year-old Southern Baptist minister has also suffered from prostate cancer and macular degeneration. He was hospitalized last year for nearly two weeks.<br \/>\n<em>Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press Asheville, N.C. &#8211; Evangelist Billy Graham is back at his North Carolina home recovering from surgery to update a shunt that controls excess fluid to his brain. Mission Hospitals spokeswoman Merrell Gregory says Graham is recovering well and physicians are pleased with his progress. Graham underwent surgery last Wednesday. 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