Encouraging News About Bo Diddley

A television station website from Omaha, Nebraska is reporting that Bo Diddley is up and walking around the intensive care unit where he is hospitalized following a stroke. Doctors say that is a very good sign that Diddley, 78, may be able to return to performing.

OMAHA, Neb. — Bo Diddley walked around the intensive care unit at Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha on Thursday, and doctors said they were encouraged that the singer-songwriter-guitarist would be able to perform again.

The update came from his manager, Margo Lewis, four days after he suffered a stroke.

Diddley, 78, did two shows at Harrah's Horseshoe Casino on Saturday night. Lewis said she had the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer taken to the hospital by ambulance Sunday morning when he appeared disoriented at the airport.

Lewis is going to get Diddley a guitar so he can entertain fellow patients. The doctors think that would be good for him. Very good news. (Original post about Diddley's condition, with a video of a performance he gave in 1966 is here.)