by Wanda June Hill » Thu Jul 05, 2007 12:00 pm
Yes, he had days of being pretty even in weight, then he'd work a few shows and blow up like a blimp and it was fluid retention. His liver and kidneys were failing him and the steroid drugs for his colon was causing havac there too. He hated it-but wasn't much he could do-he had to work, had to get on that stage-Col. T. made sure of that in no uncertain terms. He didn't care what had to be done, that man had to be on that stage! And he walked out expecting his word to be kept. It was to the best of everyone's abilities and poor Elvis, was like a puppet on a string as he put it himself. That he could pull himself together and go up there and do it was in it's self an act of God's kindness to his son Elvis. I believe and so did Elvis, that it was God who gave him the strength and the will to do it...he had to do it he said, there was something he had to do-with the money, which he didn't get all that much for himself but debts had to be paid. And so he did it. right to the end. He was handsome, they tried to destroy him, they tried to make him ugly and to appear weak and broken, but he still out shone them all, and always will. Lisa Marie knew her daddy and she said it best-"not in my lifetime"! Mine either! wjh
Wanda June Hill
author of "We Remember, Elvis" & "Elvis - Face to Face"