{"id":23296,"date":"2023-01-17T21:58:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T21:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/01\/17\/aslan-singer-christy-dignam-receiving-end-of-life-care\/"},"modified":"2023-01-17T21:58:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T21:58:20","slug":"aslan-singer-christy-dignam-receiving-end-of-life-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=23296","title":{"rendered":"Aslan singer Christy Dignam receiving end-of-life care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Christy Dignam, the lead singer of Irish rock band Aslan, is receiving palliative care at home, his family has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The 62-year-old Dubliner is being treated for amyloidosis, which causes an abnormal protein to build up in the body, triggering organ failure. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">He was admitted to hospital in July 2022 and received six months of treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">His family shared an update on Monday &#8220;in response to the large number of media enquiries received&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">A statement read: &#8220;Since December, Christy has been at home and is being cared for lovingly by family, with the support of a palliative care team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">&#8220;The Dignam family thanks everyone for keeping Christy in their thoughts and prayers and asks for privacy at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c2jgzplydn3o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Christy Dignam, the lead singer of Irish rock band Aslan, is receiving palliative care at home, his family has confirmed. The 62-year-old Dubliner is being treated for amyloidosis, which &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}