>From: JOCELYN SHERMAN <UFWOFAMER@AOL.COM> >Subject: Stricken UFW cofounder released from hospital: AP 11/17/00 >Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 > >News from the Farm Worker Movement(www.ufw.org): > >http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2000/11/17/state1852EST0188.DTL > >Stricken UFW cofounder released from hospital > >Friday, November 17, 2000 >Breaking News Sections >-----------------------------------------------------------------(11-17) >15:52 PST BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) -- The feisty cofounder of the United >Farm Workers union appears to be winning a personal battle. > >Dolores Huerta was released from the hospital Thursday, two and a half >weeks after surgery to repair a rare intestinal condition that left her >in critical condition. > >The 70-year-old labor leader and women's rights advocate was taken from >Bakersfield Heart Hospital to Health South, a rehabilitation facility. >Her family said she was still weak and fighting an infection. > >Huerta plans to spend a week to 10 days at the facility and then return >home. She is expected to make a full recovery in a month or two. > >As a single mother of seven, in 1962 Huerta joined with the late Cesar >Chavez to found the UFW. She stepped down as UFW secretary-treasurer in >September to help campaign for Al Gore. > >Huerta was first hospitalized Oct. 25 with a bleeding ulcer. She was >released two days later, but readmitted Oct. 29. Doctors operated on her >the following day to close a rare opening of the aortic artery within >the intestines. She was in critical condition for eight days. > >2000 Associated Press > >For more information on the Farm Worker Movement visit our web site at >http://www.ufw.org and/or subscribe to the Farm Worker Movement list serve >by sending an e-mail to UFW-subscribe@topica.com. To unsubscribe send an >e-mail to: UFW-unsubscribe@topica.com.
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