Country music great Haggard recovering from pneumonia

NASHVILLE, Tenn

(Reuters) - Country thespian

Merle Haggard

, who was certified to a

Georgia hospital

final week after illness forced him to cancel a show, was recuperating from a horde of health issues detected while he was being treated for

pneumonia

, his mouthpiece pronounced on Tuesday.

Haggard was certified to sanatorium on Jan 17, when illness forced him to cancel a uncover in

Macon, Georgia

, only moments before holding a stage. He after pronounced that being hospitalized "probably saved my life."

The 74-year-old singer, a member of a Country Music Hall of Fame, is recuperating from double-pneumonia though was also being treated for a series of critical ailments that doctors detected while he was hospitalized.

Haggard's pneumonia is "almost totally clear, while he is recuperating from 3 stomach ulcers, a dismissal of 8 polyps from his colon and perticulitis in his esophagus," that were detected by a Macon medical staff, according to his Los Angeles-based orator

Tresa Redburn

.

"He will be behind adult and using in 30 days," pronounced Redburn, adding that Haggard would be in a sanatorium for "at slightest a few some-more days."

"Thanks to a smashing people all over a universe that prayed their special prayers," Redburn quoted Haggard as saying.

"I'm a new man. Another special interjection to a folks of Macon, Georgia, for their kindness, their comprehension and substantially saving my life," he said.

Haggard had to cancel a residue of his Jan debate and was formulation on commencement his opening report again in late February.

With influences trimming from Lefty Frizzell to Bob Wills to Jimmie Rodgers, Haggard is an designer of nation music's supposed "Bakersfield Sound." He is best famous for songs like "Mama Tried," "Okie from Muskogee" and "The Fightin' Side of Me."

(Reporting By Tim Ghianni; Editing by Cynthia Johnston)

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