Garrison Keillor suffers minor stroke
A Prairie Home Companion host Garrison Keillor has suffered a minor stroke and is in the hospital, though he’s expected to be released Friday, he said in a statement earlier today.
“I am in the hands of smart and compassionate people and plan to get out on Friday and get right back to work,” the 67-year-old radio funny man wrote in an e-mail. He said he began “feeling ill” Monday morning and drove himself to a St. Paul hospital. He was transferred later to Saint Mary’s Hospital at Mayo Clinic “because they know so much more about me down here.”
A Mayo spokesman said Keillor was “up and moving around, speaking sensibly, working at a laptop.” In 2001, Keillor had surgery to repair a heart valve.
He is scheduled to open the new season of A Prairie Home Companion on Sept. 26 from the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul.
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