Wilfred Peters admitted to K.H.M.H.

The king of brukdong Wilfred Peters sat down with William and I last December on Open Your Eyes as a featured guest of the 2009 Brukdong Competition. But his health has been failing and Mister Peters has been hospitalized for the past two weeks. Peters, a diabetic, was admitted to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital on New Year’s Eve for hypertension and a touch of asthma. But the musical legend was also suffering with a painful abscess on his inner thigh that was affecting his everyday movement. On Tuesday Peters underwent surgery and today the prognosis is good for the seventy-eight year old artist. News Five spoke with Peters’ son, Wilfred Junior, who spoke on behalf of his father.

Wilfred Peters Jr., Son
“Well he’s been in the hospital for two weeks now. He was in there for an abscess and he got an operation and probably about—either this week or in the next week, he might come out. Operation on like wah big swelling.”

Duane Moody
“Where was the swelling?”

Wilfred Peters Jr.
“On the leg.”

Duane Moody
“What caused it?”

Wilfred Peters Jr.
“I noh really know.”

Duane Moody
“What are the doctors saying?”

Wilfred Peters Jr.
“They say he doing good. They put him on operation and they clean him up so probably this weekend or inna next week, he wah come out. The doctors say ih got wah lee touch a diabetes too. They say he just get it and he neva use to get it. Ih pressure mi deh up lee bit, ih mi got lee problem with ih heart, but everything alright. We mi feel worried because di way he mi stand, ih mi real painy and you know we mi di go fi anything happen. But thank God ih alright and probably ih wah out fi do ih thing again.”

Wilfred Junior says that his father should be discharged by next week.