Thursday, February 19, 2009

Usher's Wife Out Of Hospital

Tameka Foster-Raymond, Singer Usher's wife, was released from a hospital in Brazil after spending 11 days recovering from a cardiac arrest she suffered shortly before she was about to undergo plastic surgery.

The doctor who was to perform the plastic surgery, told that Foster-Raymond suffered a cardiac arrest while being anesthetized ahead of a simple liposuction at Sao Paulo's Sao Rafael Hospital.

Foster-Raymond, 38, who never had the procedure, and after the cardiac arrest, doctors immediately put her into a medically induced coma to stabilize her. Foster-Raymond spent a day in the intensive care unit and was transferred to another hospital, considered to be one of Brazil's finest. After a week of recovery, she is doing very well.

Upon learning of his wife's condition, Usher, 33, canceled his performance at Clive Davis' annual pre-Grammy gala on Saturday night and flew to Brazil to be by Foster-Raymond's side. Davis had told the crowd at the party that Usher had to leave town due to a serious injury in the family.