Merle Haggard returns to Calif. home to recuperate

 

Published: January 26, 2012

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country music legend Merle Haggard has returned home to northern California to recuperate from multiple illnesses.

Haggard had been hospitalized in Macon, Ga., for about a week with double pneumonia. While there, doctors discovered three stomach ulcers and eight polyps in his colon.

At one point, the 74-year-old checked himself out of the hospital to return to Redding, Calif., by t...


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