The household of iconic Australian entertainer Barry Humphries has rushed to his bedside amid conflicting reviews surrounding his well being.
St Vincent’s Hospital confirmed to the Herald Sun that Humphries is “responsive and stable,” following an earlier report – apparently additionally from the hospital, and first aired on ABC Radio earlier immediately – that he had gone into an “unresponsive state.”
“St Vincent’s Hospital in the last hour have gone public and said in fact he’s alert and he’s cracking jokes with the nursing staff, so they seem like two very extreme ends of the spectrum,” leisure reporter Peter Ford stated on 6PR immediately, referring to the sooner report of him being unresponsive.
“When I heard the initial report about being unresponsive it didn’t totally surprise me, given the gravity of the situation and the fact that I do know they have been increasing his morphine levels over the last couple of days. But to hear the other suggestion that he in fact awake and cracking jokes with nursing staff does surprise me a lot. I hope that’s the truth but we can only just wait and watch and see.”
“As we have been reporting all week, Barry has been in an increasingly perilous state of health, all these complications from the fall, the hip replacement,” Ford stated.
“His children were told in the beginning of the week it would be advisable if they wanted to come see him to do so … and they are all there right now along with his wife, Lizzie.”
As Humphries’ well being took a flip, his sons, Oscar and Rupert, travelled from London to be by his facet alongside together with his daughter, Emily, who he was estranged from for twenty years.
According to Ford, the daddy and daughter solely reconciled at his hospital bedside after greater than 20 years of friction.
“It is a really serious situation. I don’t expect there’s going to be a good outcome,”
Ford instructed radio hosts Steve “Millsy” Mills and Karl Langdon on Perth radio program 6PR Breakfast yesterday.
“Barry’s two sons arrived from London [on Tuesday] and they were told basically this would be a good time to get on a plane and get to Sydney as quickly as possible.
“And he also did reconcile with his daughter who he has not spoken to for over 20 years,” Ford added. “They had a bedside meeting and that’s a good thing that that’s happened. Largely, now it’s just a waiting game.”
Humphries – who is known for his hilarious alter egos Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson – had been dwelling in London for about 40 years together with his spouse, Lizzie Spender. It was throughout a vacation in Sydney this summer season that he suffered the autumn and was hospitalised.
It was Ford who broke news of Humphries’ readmission to hospital earlier this week on Seven’s breakfast program Sunrise, sharing that the comedian was decided to be again on stage by the yr’s finish.
“Barry won’t give up easily. Whether that’s a realistic goal, I don’t know,” he stated on the time. “I am told that Barry’s health has worsened in the last week.”
In an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald final month, earlier than being readmitted to hospital, Humphries stated he had been in agony for a number of months because the fall and was present process “very painful” rehabilitation periods.
“It was the most ridiculous thing, like all domestic incidents are. I was reaching for a book, my foot got caught on a rug or something, and down I went,” he stated.
Source: www.news.com.au
