SHORT TAKES : Fans Welcome Estefan Home

Singer Gloria Estefan came home to a welcome from 150 fans after undergoing surgery on her broken back.

“I have felt every one of those prayers from the first moment,” Miami Sound Machine’s 32-year-old vocalist told fans at the airport. “I think that was very important in the way that I feel and the way I recuperate.”

Estefan suffered broken vertebrae when a tractor-trailer struck her tour bus March 21 on a snowy Pennsylvania highway. She was transferred to a New York hospital and underwent surgery to implant two steel rods in her spine.