Coretta Scott King Is Mostly Paralyzed

[undergroundrailroad]

ATLANTA -- Coretta Scott King is mostly paralyzed on the right side of her body and faces a long, difficult recovery from a stroke, but she managed to say a few words Friday, her doctor said.

Dr. Maggie Mermin, King's personal physician, said that the 78-year-old widow of Martin Luther King Jr. is unable to walk and has been mostly unable to speak since the stroke Tuesday in the left side of her brain, which controls speech functions.



Coretta Scott King, widow of slain civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., speaks during an interview at the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in this Jan. 13, 2004 file photo. King suffered a heart attack and a major stroke that has impaired her ability to speak and affected her right side, a doctor said Thursday. (AP Photo/John Bazmore, File) (John Bazemore - AP)
"She said a few words today. We're very encouraged by that," the doctor said.

Mermin said King would be in Piedmont Hospital for at least another week and said, "I'm not certain she'll have full recovery. ... We certainly hope for that."


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the truth hurts. :cry:

I'm going to send a get-well card to this address:

Mrs. Coretta Scott King
The King Center
449 Auburn Avenue, NE
Atlanta, GA 30312

[kwassa]

1. Very sorry to hear it

It goes, unfortunately, with the aging process. I wonder what will happen to the King family when she goes.

A friend of ours knew her when she was just Coretta Scott, when they were both undergraduates at Antioch University in Ohio.

[angee_is_mad]

2. Thx underground

she and her family will definitely be in my prayers.

Mrs. King is the epitomde of a "STRONG BLACK WOMAN." She is definitely a class act!

[alarcojon]

3. She is in our thoughts

as is her family.

[goclark]

4. Prayers Are with a Great Lady nt