>From: JOCELYN SHERMAN <UFWOFAMER@aol.com> >Subject: Condition of stricken UFW co-founder upgraded to `fair': AP- 11/9/00 >Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 09:34:23 -0800 > >News from the Farm Worker Movement(www.ufw.org): > >http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2000/11/08/state2042EST0707.DTL > > >Condition of stricken UFW co-founder upgraded to `fair' > >Wednesday, November 8, 2000 >AP: Breaking News Sections >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >(11-08) 17:42 PST BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) -- Dolores Huerta, co-founder >of the United Farm Workers union was taken off a ventilator and >transferred from a hospital critical care unit Wednesday as her >condition improved. > >The diminutive but feisty activist who founded the UFW union with the >late Cesar Chavez had been in critical condition since surgery Oct. 30 >at Bakersfield Heart Hospital to repair a rare intestinal condition. > >Her condition was upgraded to fair as she was moved to a normal hospital >room. > >``We've reached a major turning point and we hope she'll be able to go >home real soon,'' said Angela Cabrera, one of her 11 children. ``The >fact that she went into this pretty healthy was certainly on her side, >(plus) her own drive and her willingness to fight.'' > >Huerta, 70, has been weary and unable to speak, but she has sat up for >brief periods and has communicated with family members through hand >signals and smiles. Even as she was in critical condition Sunday, she >made a weak fist to urge supporters to mobilize voters to go to the >polls Tuesday. > >Huerta, who left her position as UFW secretary-treasurer in September to >help campaign for Al Gore, was monitoring the outcome of the election >from her hospital bed. She voted at the hospital with an absentee >ballot. > >The Huerta family has been swamped with cards, e-mails and telephone >messages wishing Huerta well and praying for her recovery, Cabrera said.
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