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February 20, 2008

Billy Graham home from hospital

No need for alarm -- it was an elective procedure.

Susan Wunderink

From Religion News Service's Adelle Banks:

Evangelist Billy Graham returned home Tuesday (Feb. 19) after undergoing a procedure to relieve pressure in his brain.

Graham, 89, underwent the elective procedure on Feb. 13 at Missions Hospitals in Asheville, N.C. Physicians said he was progressing well after they replaced a valve for a shunt that regulates the pressure within his brain.

Graham has hydrocephalus, or a buildup of fluid on the brain that can cause symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease. He recently had experienced more intense symptoms, which led to his hospital stay.

During his time in the hospital, Graham was visited by three of his children who live near his Montreat, N.C., home and received a phone call from President Bush.

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Dear Dr. Graham,

I am, together with a host of other believers around the world, am praying for your recovery and health.

It was my honor and privilege to be part of your team during the Hong Kong and Taiwan Crusades in 1975. I was the lady singer from Los Angeles who sang in Mandarin and Cantonese each night of the Crusade, just in case you wonder who I am. Your dear wife shared her umbrella with me under the torrential rain that one evening in the coliseum in Taipei. I will never forget that. In fact, I still have the umbrella she had left with me...and I have kept it all these years because it was from her... as a souvenir!

God be with you and give you much comfort and joy.

Yours in Christ,

Perlita LIm

God bless you

Posted By: Perlita Lim Uyboco | February 21, 2008 3:48 PM

i do pray for dr graham and i pray that he is here as long as he can stay but God calls him home - he will be with his beloved ruth whom i know he misses so much

i believe america needs dr graham - he is our living legend of what it means to be a christian

Posted By: jan sterling | February 21, 2008 9:36 PM

How thankful we are to have Dr. Graham still with us may God bless every endeavor and give him strength to share with us all that he can before he departs this earth. Prayer for his children and his organization that the work he started will be carried on. Thanks to Thee O Lord for thy faithful servant.

Posted By: James Reid Ross | February 22, 2008 2:37 AM

Dr.Graham is well known in India. We look forward for his advice everyday. May he live longer to speak to us everyday and take us nearer to Him. We wish him a speedy recovery. His program 'My Hope' in India brought many families together to openly share the love of Chist with non-believers. May he live long. Our prayers are always for him. God bless.

Stephen Behera.
BHUBANESWAR-751 015.
India

Posted By: Stephen Behera | February 23, 2008 6:21 AM

dear dr graham you are well remembered in south africa for all that you have done in the spirtual and natural realm. as christians world over intercede for your speedy recovery so do i. remember the GOD who died so that we may live... will not test us beyond our strenght. afterall what is more aweful than death. God bless you.

Posted By: Kantha c aron | March 17, 2008 3:41 AM