Posted: 1/09/04
Evangelist Graham falls, undergoes
hip replacement surgery in Florida
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.–(ABP) Evangelist Billy Graham underwent partial hip replacement surgery last week in Jacksonville, Fla.
While he was in Jacksonville for a routine checkup at the Mayo Clinic, he reportedly fell in his hotal room on the hospital grounds.
When he could not get out of bed the next morning, Graham was checked into St. Luke's Hospital.
There, doctors determined he had broken his left hip.
During the operation, a surgical team removed the ball of Graham's fractured femnur and replaced it with a metal prosthesis. He is expected to make a full recovery.
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association Spokesman Larry Ross said the evangelist still plans to announce his 2004 schedule of crusades later this month.
“He will have sufficient time for healing and therapy to maintain his ministry as planned,” Ross said.
“He has said he has no plans to retire until God retires him.”
Graham has been a Mayo patient for more than 50 years.
For the past 10 years, he has made the trip from his North Carolina home to Jacksonville twice a year to receive treatment for Parkinson's disease.
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