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Lucille Ball’s Condition Improves

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Actress Lucille Ball’s condition improved Thursday and she was out of bed and sitting in a chair after emergency heart surgery.

“She’s really doing well,” said Ron Wise, spokesman for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. “She is continuing to show a constant improvement that supports original optimism that she was going to have a full recovery.”

Doctors upgraded Miss Ball’s condition from critical to serious Thursday and she got out of bed for the first time since the surgery Tuesday evening.

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The 77-year-old comedienne’s aorta and aortic valve were replaced with tissue taken from the body of an unidentified 27-year-old man. Doctors expect her to move into a private room this weekend.

Cedars-Sinai has been flooded with calls, Wise said, and a cafe in the Beverly Center, across the street, unfurled a banner reading: “Hard Rock Loves Lucy.”

“We are getting large numbers of fax for her, every minute now, and the flow of mail with get-well messages has begun,” Wise said.

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