ST. PAUL, Minn., Sep 27, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) -- U.S. humorist Garrison
Keillor has returned to his weekly radio show, saying he is thankful to medical
personnel who helped him when suffered had a stroke.
Appearing Saturday in St. Paul, Minn. -- during his first "Prairie Home
Companion" radio show since sustaining a minor stroke this month -- Keillor, 67,
thanked "the good people" at the United Hospital emergency room in St. Paul and
at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minn., The (Minneapolis) Star-Tribune
reported Sunday.
During the show, Keillor said the fall season "makes you think about mortality,"
and -- employing his trademark wry humor -- told a story of a man who sings flat
"because he had a stroke a little while ago" and who had forgotten the last 20
years, leaving him permanently 37 years old.
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