CAITLIN R. KING
Associated Press Writer
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Country music legend Charlie Daniels says he’s “doing fine” and working away the numbness in his left hand after suffering a mild stroke while snowmobiling in Colorado.
“I can still play my fiddle. I can play my guitar. One of the first things I did when I came home from the hospital in Denver was to pick up my guitar and make sure my fingers still worked on it,” he said in a phone interview on Wednesday night.
The 73-year-old has begun physical therapy, not because of doctor’s orders – they told him the feeling in his hand would return on its own – but “to speed up” the process. He will do another session in Colorado this week, and find a therapist when he returns to Tennessee. Daniels doesn’t plan to cancel any of his upcoming shows, which resume in February.