Lucille Ball Home After Surgery

Lucille Ball was home and feeling fine today after undergoing minor throat surgery last week. Ball, 76, the red-headed star of slapstick television comedy in the 1950s and ‘60s, went home Friday after three days in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Wanda Clark, her secretary, said today.

“She was in the hospital for some very minor surgery and she’s just fine,” Clark said. “She’s going about her normal business. There’s nothing to even recuperate from.” Cedars-Sinai spokesman Ron Wise said doctors removed a small cyst from her throat beside her thyroid gland. The operation was performed while she was in the hospital for an annual physical exam, he said. “It was a very innocuous procedure,” Wise added.